List of the city presidents of Winterthur
The list of city presidents of Winterthur provides an overview of the city leaders of Winterthur from 1798 to the present day. In the time before the French Revolution, mayors were at the head of the city. The first mayor of Winterthur, Christoph Ziegler, was previously mayor of the city. The first president to be elected as head of a multi-member executive was Johann Rudolf Sulzer.
The mayor used to have his offices in the town hall , and since the completion of the superblock in the Sulzer site in 2015, the mayor has his offices there too.
City Presidents
Explanations of the titles
- In office : year the President took office. All presidents held office until the next president's year in office
- Person : name of the politician
- Party : party affiliation
- Born : Birth Year
- Gest. : Year of death
- Comments : Comments on the person or term of office
Party abbreviations
- DP: Democratic Party / Democratic Movement
- FDP: Liberal Democratic Party
- LP: Liberal Party
- SP: Social Democratic Party
- CVP: Christian Democratic People's Party
list
Term of office | image | person | Political party | Born | Gest. | Remarks |
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1798-1799 | Christoph Ziegler | 1734 | 1808 | Ziegler was already mayor of the city. | ||
1799-1801 | Johann Heinrich Steiner | 1747 | 1827 | |||
1801-1803 | Christoph Ziegler | 1734 | 1808 | |||
1803-1805 | Johann Rudolf Sulzer | 1749 | 1828 | Called name «Jeannot». Elected as the first mayor of the new government. | ||
1805-1821 | Johann Heinrich Steiner | 1747 | 1827 | |||
1821-1823 | Johann Rudolf Sulzer | 1749 | 1828 | Called name «Jeannot». | ||
1823-1824 | Johann Georg Blum | 1768 | 1824 | |||
1824-1851 | Anton Künzli | 1771 | 1852 | also called Antonius Künzli | ||
1851-1858 | Karl Eduard Steiner | 1803 | 1870 | |||
1858-1873 | Johann Jakob Sulzer | DP | 1821 | 1897 | He was a leading head of the Ecole de Winterthour and an opponent of Alfred Escher | |
1873-1875 | Theodor Ziegler | DP | 1832 | 1917 | ||
1875-1877 | Salomon Bleuler | DP | 1829 | 1886 | ||
1877-1878 | Albert Weinmann | DP | 1829 | 1882 | Weinmann resigned as a result of the national railway debacle | |
1878-1879 | Johann Jakob Spiller | LP | 1823 | 1894 | ||
1879-1911 | Rudolf Geilinger | DP | 1848 | 1911 | At 32 years of age, Rudolf Geilinger was the city president who had been in office the longest. | |
1911-1930 | Hans Sträuli | DP | 1862 | 1938 | ||
1930-1939 | Hans Widmer | DP | 1889 | 1939 | ||
1939-1966 | Hans Rüegg | DP | 1902 | 1972 | ||
1966-1990 | Urs Widmer | DP | 1927 | 2018 | ||
1990-2002 | Martin Haas | FDP | 1935 | 2019 | ||
2002–2012 | Ernst Wohlwend | SP | 1947 | |||
2012- | Michael Künzle | CVP | 1965 |
See also
- Commons : Mayor of Winterthur - collection of images, videos and audio files
- List of mayors of Winterthur