List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Stralsund
In the Middle Ages, mayors in Stralsund were mostly provided by the most important guilds. Numerous portraits of the city's mayors can be found in Stralsund Town Hall . The office of mayor was usually given for life.
The office of Lord Mayor has existed in Stralsund since 1887. The title was awarded for loyal service. It was awarded initially by the Kaiser and later by the government of the Weimar Republic . From 1943 to April 1945 there was no mayor, instead there was a Reich Commissioner.
Since 2004 the mayor has been determined by direct election.
Mayor (1293 to 1924)
This list is incomplete!
Lord Mayor (from 1887)
Full list!
Lord Mayor of Stralsund | |||
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from | to | Full name | Remarks |
1887 | 1898 | Carl Friedrich Tamms | |
1909 | 1924 | Ernst Gronow | |
1924 | 1936 | Carl Heydemann | DNVP |
1936 | 1943 | Werner Stoll | NSDAP |
1943 | 1945 | Hans Fichtner | Reich Commissioner, NSDAP, April 1943 - April 30, 1945 |
1945 | 1945 | Otto Kortüm | May 1 - August 25, 1945 |
1945 | 1950 | Emil Frost | SED , August 28, 1945 - April 27, 1950 |
1950 | 1954 | Hermann Salinger | SED, May 5, 1950 - 1954 |
1954 | 1957 | Erhard Holweger | SED, 1954 - October 30, 1957 |
1958 | 1962 | Bruno Motczinski | SED, January 25, 1958 - July 23, 1962 |
1963 | 1965 | Siegfried Priewe | SED, March 14, 1963--1965 |
1965 | 1971 | Heinz Readers | SED, November 4, 1965 - April 18, 1971 |
1971 | 1989 | Horst Lehmann | SED, April 19, 1971 - November 9, 1989 |
1989 | 1990 | Klaus Schlegel | SED- PDS , November 10, 1989 - May 18, 1990 |
1990 | 2008 | Harald Lastovka | CDU , elected on May 29, 1990 |
2008 | officiating | Alexander Badrow | CDU, elected on June 1, 2008, taking office in October 2008 |
literature
- Herbert Ewe : History of the city of Stralsund. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1984 (publications of the Stralsund City Archives, Volume X).
- Johann Albert Dinnies : Directory of all mayors, Syndici and other councilors of the city of Stralsund, with the addition of what can be found about their living conditions. (Manuscript in the Stralsund city archive, 2 volumes, call numbers: Hs 359 and 360, contains approx. 700 biographies from the 2nd half of the 13th century to approx. 1800 digitized in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania digital library).
- Peter Pooth : Members of the Stralsund Council 1800–1933. In: Pomeranian Yearbooks . 33rd Volume, 1939, pp. 79-120.