List of the city leaders of Flensburg

The heads of the city of Flensburg as far as known:

City leaders since the Middle Ages

The first mayor of Flensburg known by name is said to have been "Tord Tordsen". He is said to have occupied the mayor's office before 1379. With him, however, it is unclear for which of the two parishes ( St. Marien and St. Nikolai ) he should have assumed this office.

Mayor for St. Marien

around 1379: Peter Jul († before 1398)
then probably: Iver Jul († before 1430)
then probably: Lasse Sieverts († 1406)
around 1411-1414: Peter Achtrup († 1414)
around 1424–1429: Hinrich Achtrup
1431: Magnus Haysen (lived at least until 1438)
around 1441–1461: Wedege Plate
then probably: Tord Tordis
around 1476–1477: Lasse Nigelsen
around 1481–1482: Clawes Brun
around 1490–1500: Arnd pillowbrugghe
1505–1529 Nis Smith († 1529)
around 1529–1541 Thomas Jepsen
around 1544–1546 Karsten Richertsen († 1546)
1551–1555 Marten Schulte († 1555)
1556–1564: Andreas Schriver
1564–1586: Thomas Fincke
1587–1595: Dietrich Nacke
1596–1597: Hermann Lange
1598–1599: Gerd von Mehrfeldt
1600–1606: Johann Klöcker
1607–1612: Heinrich von Mehrfeldt
1613-1644: Carsten Beyer
1645-1649: Evert Vette
1650-1653: Otto Beyer
1653-1660: Reinhold Lange
1661–1672: Dr. Joh. Möller
1672–1697: Lorenz Faust
1697–1701 Karsten Beyer
1701-1710: Berend Stricker
1710–1721: Peter Bischoff
1721–1741: Hans Clausen
1742–1781: Georg Claeden
1781–1802: Josias thor Straten
1802-1810: Johann Jacob thor Straten
1821–1832: Hans von der Pahlen
1832–1845: Hans Rudolph Feddersen
1845–1850: Christian Friedrich Callisen

Mayor for St. Nikolai

around 1401–1409: Sivert Krogh
around 1419–1424: Berthold Achtrup
1431: Nisse Berntson
around 1438–1447: Eggert Bonsen († before 1451)
then probably: Clawes Smyter
around 1466–1473: Haying Paysen
around 1475–1503: Anders Smadder
1504–1521: Marquard Holst († January 13, 1522)
1521–1531: Willem Winbarch
1531–1539: Bartelt Hansen
1540–1560: Franz Holst
1561-1567- Marcus Mandixen
1567–1577: Peter Pomerering (also: Peter Pommerening)
1577–1593: Gerd von Oesede
1593–1626: Marcus Schröder
1627–1629: Jacob von der Wetering
1630–1631: Karsten Kallisen
1631-1649: Hans Boysen
1649–1659: Thomas von der Wetering
1660–1668: Hinrich Jacobs
1668–1673: Hans Lange
1673–1693: Gerhard von Oesede
1693–1697: Martin Jessen
1697: Gerd Reimers
1697–1715: Jürgen Valentiner
1715-1724: Jasper Jaspersen
1724-1728: Berthold Hoe
1728-1740: Hans Jebsen
1740-1748: Nik. Heinr. Clausen
1748–1764: Hans Iversen Loyt
1765–1767: Peter Henningsen
1767–1787: Joh. G. Feddersen
1787–1806: Hans Boysen
1806–1811: Hans vd Pahlen
1832–1845: Hans Rudolf Feddersen
1832: Andreas Peter Andresen
1833–1838: Hans Thomsen Fries
1838–1847: Hans Peter Hansen
1847–1857: Jürgen Lorenzen

City presidents around 1800

1810–1818: Friedrich Heinrich Chr. Johannsen , City President

1818–1820: Joachim Godsche von Levetzow , mayor

Chief President

Between 1848 and 1857 there was an interim "Oberpräsident" at the head of the city. The following persons held this office:

1848: Friedrich Nicolaus von Liliencron
1848–1849: Adolph von Harbou

The following mayors of St. Marien acted as word-holding upper presidents:

1850–1854: Gustav Frederik Lassen
1854–1857: Sophus Anton Gottlieb Carl von Rosen

First Mayor

1848–1850: Franz Christoph Reimers (provisional)
1850–1853: Franz Christoph Reimers (deposed)
1857–1864: Sophus Anton Gottlieb Carl von Rosen
1864–1865: Jürgen Bremer
1865–1868: Otto Bong Schmidt
1868: Friedrich Wilhelm Funke
1868–1875: Wilhelm Toosbüy

Second mayor

1857–1864: Hans Jensen
1864–1870: Wilhelm Funcke
1870-882: J. Jansen
1883–1893: Wilhelm Langenheim
1893–1898: Hermann Bendix Todsen
1899–1911: Georg Schrader
1911–1920: Karl Poppe
1921–1933: Alfred Loeber
1933-1936: M. Link
1936–1945: Carl Mackprang
1945-1946: CC Christiansen
1946: Friedrich Drews
1946–1950: Nikolaus Reiser

Lord Mayor until 1945

1875–1898: Wilhelm Toosbüy
1898–1930: Hermann Bendix Todsen
1930–1933: Fritz David von Hansemann ( DVP )
1933–1936: Wilhelm Sievers ( NSDAP ) (without democratic legitimation)
1936–1945: Ernst Kracht (NSDAP) (without democratic legitimation)

Mayor 1945–1950

1945–1950: Jacob Clausen Möller , ( SSF ), Lord Mayor as Chairman of the Council
1945–1950: Friedrich Drews ( SPF ), February 1946 – April 1950 City Director

City leaders since 1950

Lord Mayor (Head of Administration)

1950–1955: Friedrich Drews ( SPF )
1955–1963: Thomas Andresen ( CDU )
1963–1977: Heinz Adler ( SPD )
1978–1982: Bodo Richter ( SPD )
1982–1983: Helmuth Christensen (until the new mayor elected) ( SSW )
1983–1999: Olaf Cord Dielewicz ( SPD )
1999-2004: Hermann Stell ( CDU )
2004–2005: Helmut Trost (executive until a new mayor is elected) ( SPD )
2005–2011: Klaus Tscheuschner (independent, nominated by the CDU )
2011–2017: Simon Faber ( SSW )
from January 15, 2017: Simone Lange ( SPD , nominated together with CDU and Greens )

mayor

1950–1956: Karl Haase
1956 to the 1970s: H. Christiansen

City Presidents (Chair of the Council)

Christian Dewanger (then Mayor of WiF) at the opening of the Christmas market in 2012 on the Südermarkt in Flensburg

Mayor Swetlana Krätzschmar 2013

1950–1951: Jacob Clausen Möller ( SSF )
1951–1955: Thomas Andresen ( CDU )
1955–1959: Carl Jensen ( CDU )
1959–1961: Hanno Schmidt ( CDU )
1961–1962: Johan Wrang ( SSW )
1962–1970: Leon Jensen ( CDU )
1970–1974: Artur Thomsen ( SPD )
1974–1978: Horst Kiessner ( CDU ; only in office until spring 1977 due to illness)
1977–1978: Artur Thomsen ( SPD ; incumbent mayor from March 1977 to April 13, 1978)
1978–1986: Ingrid Gross ( CDU )
1986–1992: Lothar Hay ( SPD )
1992–2002: Peter Rautenberg ( SPD )
2002–2003: Hartmut Strauss ( SPD )
2003-2008: Hans Hermann Laturnus ( CDU )
2008–2013: Christian Dewanger (WiF)
2013-2018: Swetlana Krätzschmar ( CDU )
2018-today: Hannes Fuhrig ( CDU )

literature

Dieter Pust : Kings, mayors and presidents in Flensburg . Biographical sketches. Ed .: Society for Flensburg City History (= small series . Issue 15). 1st edition. Flensburg 1987, ISBN 3-925856-04-8 .
Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Mayor, Lord Mayor, City Presidents in: Flensburg in the past and present . Flensburg 1972, 428 f.

Individual evidence

^ Flensburg - history of a border town. Edited by the Society for Flensburg City History. Flensburg 1966, p. 39
↑ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present from 1972, p. 428
↑ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present from 1972, p. 428
↑ A Tord Tordis is named in the following source instead of "Tord Tordsen" (see list above) as the first known mayor of Flensburg: Knud Gether: Middelalder-familier in Flensborg and North Frisia and their efterkommere in Denmark, Tyskland and Norway. Et bidrag til Sønderjyllands personal history. Bind 1 , Dansk Historisk Håndbogsforlag, Lyngby, Danmark, 1987, Volume 1, p. 32
↑ End of his term of office by dismissal
↑ Deposed in 1577.

[1] Flensburg - history of a border town. Edited by the Society for Flensburg City History. Flensburg 1966, p. 39

[2] Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present from 1972, p. 428

[3] Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present from 1972, p. 428

[4] A Tord Tordis is named in the following source instead of "Tord Tordsen" (see list above) as the first known mayor of Flensburg: Knud Gether: Middelalder-familier in Flensborg and North Frisia and their efterkommere in Denmark, Tyskland and Norway. Et bidrag til Sønderjyllands personal history. Bind 1 , Dansk Historisk Håndbogsforlag, Lyngby, Danmark, 1987, Volume 1, p. 32

[5] End of his term of office by dismissal

[6] Deposed in 1577.