List of the German Lord Mayors
This list shows the incumbent German mayors who have the official title of Lord Mayor (OB).
| Party affiliation of the mayor in major German cities | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large cities with over 100,000 inhabitants (81 in total) | number | |||
| SPD | 47 | |||
| CDU / CSU | 22nd | |||
| Green | 4th | |||
| FDP | 2 | |||
| independent | 6th | |||
| Status: 11/10/2019 | ||||
Overview
In the overview the regulations of the individual countries for the award of the official title of mayor are given.
| country | Cities | Term of office | annotation | number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baden-Württemberg | City districts and large district towns | 8 years | More than two applicants can run for the runoff election. | 103 |
| Bavaria | Independent cities and large district cities | 6 years | 54 | |
| Brandenburg | One district cities | 8 years | 4th | |
| Bremen | Bremerhaven | The mayor is elected by the Bremerhaven city council. | 1 | |
| Hesse | Independent cities and municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants | 6 years | 12 | |
| Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Independent cities and large district cities (= former district cities), without Wismar | 7–9 years | The length of the term of office is regulated in the main statute. | 5 |
| Lower Saxony | Independent cities , Hanover , Göttingen and large independent cities | 5 years | The term of office was 8 years. From 2016 it will be gradually reduced to 5 years. | 17th |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | Independent cities and Aachen (in this regard counts as an independent city) | 5 years | The next uniform election date is September 13, 2020. There was no runoff in 2009. |
23 |
| Rhineland-Palatinate | Independent cities and large cities belonging to a district | 8 years | 20th | |
| Saarland | Cities with more than 35,000 inhabitants | ten years | 5 | |
| Saxony | Independent cities and large district cities | 7 years | More than two applicants can run for the runoff election. | 54 |
| Saxony-Anhalt | Independent cities and cities with more than 25,000 inhabitants | 7 years | 17th | |
| Schleswig-Holstein | Independent cities without Lübeck and the large city of Norderstedt | 6-8 years | The length of the term of office is regulated in the main statute. | 4th |
| Thuringia | Independent cities and large cities belonging to a district | 6 years | 11 |
Hints
In Baden-Württemberg and Saxony , the year in which the city was elevated to the status of a major district town is given for some mayors and the mayor who had previously been in office was thus given the official title of "mayor".
In Lübeck the mayor is traditionally not called the mayor , but the mayor . The Hanseatic city shares this tradition with the smaller Wismar .
The title of Lord Mayor is also not used in the city-states of Berlin and Hamburg, as well as in Bremen , since the city leaders are also heads of the state governments. These are called Governing Mayor (Berlin), First Mayor (Hamburg) and Mayor and President of the Senate (City of Bremen ).
Unless otherwise stated, the list is current as of September 2019.
Baden-Württemberg
| Surname | Geb.- year |
city | Political party | official competes |
last election result |
last choice |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thilo Rentschler | 1967 | Bask | SPD | 2013 | 60.5% | 2013 | |
| Klaus Muttach | 1963 | Achern | CDU | 2007 | 79% | 2015 | |
| Klaus Konzelmann | 1962 | Albstadt | WV | 2015 | 60.2% | 2015 | WV means free voters' association. |
| Frank Nopper | 1961 | Backnang | CDU | 2002 | 87.1% | 2018 | |
| Margret Mergen | 1961 | Baden-Baden | CDU | 2014 | 62.60% | 2014 | |
| Udo Glatthaar | 1961 | Bad Mergentheim | CDU | 2011 | 93.0% | 2019 | |
| Sebastian Frei | 1981 | Bad Rappenau | independent | 2018 | 71.70% | 2018 | |
| Helmut Reitemann | 1959 | Balingen | CDU | 2007 | 82.28% | 2015 | |
| Norbert Zeidler | 1967 | Biberach an der Riss | independent | 2013 | 70.34% | 2012 | |
| Jürgen Kessing | 1957 | Bietigheim-Bissingen | SPD | 2004 | 97.18% | 2012 | |
| Stefan Belz | 1980 | Boeblingen | GREEN | 2018 | 51.3% | 2018 | |
| Martin Wolff | 1957 | Boards | independent | 2010 | 36.00% | 2017 | |
| Cornelia Petzold-Schick | 1964 | Bruchsal | independent | 2009 | 77.81% | 2017 | |
| Hubert Schnurr | 1955 | Buhl | Free voters | 2012 | 92.3% | 2019 | |
| Florian Kling | 1987 | Calw | independent | 2019 | 51.7% | 2019 | Is an SPD member, but ran as an independent candidate. |
| Christoph G. Grimmer | 1985 | Crailsheim | independent | 2018 | 56.9% | 2017 | prevailed against eleven competitors in the first ballot |
| Michael Makurath | 1959 | Ditzingen | independent | 1999 | 95.12% | 2015 | |
| Erik Pauly | 1970 | Donaueschingen | CDU | 2014 | 55.60% | 2014 | |
| Alexander Baumann | 1962 | Ehingen | CDU | 2010 | 98.6% | 2018 | |
| Klaus Heininger | 1961 | Eislingen / Fils | independent | 2010 | 97.7% | 2018 | Mayor since 2012 |
| Michael Dambacher | 1979 | Ellwangen | CDU | 2019 | 65.64% | 2019 | |
| Stefan Schlatterer | 1967 | Emmendingen | CDU | 2004 | 64.49% | 2012 | |
| Klaus Holaschke | 1962 | Eppingen | independent | 2004 | 98.82% | 2012 | |
| Jürgen Zieger | 1955 | Esslingen am Neckar | SPD | 1998 | 77.2% | 2014 | |
| Johannes Arnold | 1970 | Ettlingen | independent | 2011 | 98.6% | 2019 | |
| Gabriele Zull | 1966 | Fellbach | independent | 2016 | 61.16% | 2016 | |
| Christoph Traub | 1970 | Filderstadt | CDU | 2015 | 50.97% | 2015 | |
| Julian Osswald | 1965 | Freudenstadt | CDU | 2008 | 92.72% | 2016 | |
| Martin Horn | 1984 | Freiburg in Breisgau | independent | 2018 | 44.2% | 2018 | |
| Andreas Brand | 1964 | Friedrichshafen | Free voters | 2009 | 79.93% | 2017 | |
| Christof Florus | 1956 | Gaggenau | independent | 2007 | 95.13% | 2015 | |
| Frank Dehmer | 1973 | Geislingen an der Steige | independent | 2014 | 54.27% | 2014 | |
| Dieter Henle | 1975 | Giengen on the Brenz | independent | 2017 | 59.2% | 2017 | |
| Guido Till | 1955 | Goeppingen | CDU | 2005 | 61.85% | 2012 | member of the SPD until October 2009; 2012 supported by CDU, FDP and Citizens' Alliance Göppingen; member of the CDU since October 2013 |
| Eckart Würzner | 1961 | Heidelberg | independent | 2006 | 84.44% | 2014 | |
| Bernhard Ilg | 1956 | Heidenheim an der Brenz | CDU | 2000 | 78.15% | 2015 | |
| Harry Mergel | 1956 | Heilbronn | SPD | 2014 | 55.9% | 2014 | |
| Thomas Sprissler | 1966 | Herrenberg | Free voters | 2008 | 97.45% | 2015 | |
| Dieter Gummer | 1951 | Hockenheim | SPD | 2004 | 89.25% | 2012 | |
| Peter Rosenberger | 1972 | Horb am Neckar | CDU | 2009 | 71.03% | 2017 | |
| Frank Mentrup | 1964 | Karlsruhe | SPD | 2013 | 55.26% | 2012 | |
| Toni Vetrano | 1964 | Throat | CDU | 2014 | 82.48% | 2014 | |
| Angelika Matt-Heidecker | 1953 | Kirchheim unter Teck | SPD | 2004 | 95.03% | 2011 | on March 1, 2020, Pascal Bader will replace Matt-Heidecker after his election victory on December 1, 2019. |
| Ulrich Burchardt | 1971 | Constancy | CDU | 2012 | 39.1% | 2012 | |
| Ursula Keck | 1963 | Kornwestheim | independent | 2007 | 54.44% | 2015 | |
| Wolfgang G. Muller | 1951 | Lahr | SPD | 1997 | 99.03% | 2013 | started as a single applicant |
| Gerold Rechle | 1964 | Laupheim | Free voters | 2017 | 58.5% | 2017 | |
| Hans Reinwald | 1969 | Glue | CDU | 2016 | 65.2% | 2016 | |
| Roland Klenk | 1952 | Leinfelden-Echterdingen | CDU | 2002 | 88.24% | 2017 | |
| Martin Cohn | 1966 | Leonberg | SPD | 2017 | 51.98% | 2017 | |
| Hans-Jörg Henle | 1964 | Leutkirch | independent | 2008 | 87% | 2016 | |
| Jörg Lutz | 1963 | Loerrach | independent | 2014 | 64.43% | 2014 | supported by the SPD |
| Matthias Knecht | 1975 | Ludwigsburg | independent | 2019 | 58.54% | 2019 | |
| Peter Kurz | 1962 | Mannheim | SPD | 2007 | 52.0% | 2015 | |
| Ulrich Fiedler | 1972 | Metzingen | independent | 2009 | 93.6% | 2017 | |
| Michael Jann | 1960 | Mosbach | CDU | 2006 | 86.5% | 2014 | |
| Michael Bulander | 1971 | Mössingen | independent | 2010 | 97.16% | 2018 | |
| Frank Schneider | 1961 | Mühlacker | FDP | 2010 | 95.98% | 2017 | |
| Jürgen Grossmann | 1962 | Nagold | CDU | 2008 | 97.23% | 2016 | |
| Steffen Hertwig | 1969 | Neckarsulm | SPD | 2016 | 52.5% | 2016 | |
| Johannes Fridrich | 1977 | Nürtingen | independent | 2019 | 54.98% | 2019 | |
| Matthias Braun | 1959 | Oberkirch | CDU | 1999 | 95% | 2015 | Mayor since 2004; only candidate for election in 2015 |
| Marco Steffens | 1978 | Offenburg | CDU | 2018 | 52% | 2018 | |
| Thilo Michler | 1972 | Öhringen | independent | 2009 | 89.48% | 2017 | |
| Christof Bolay | 1968 | Ostfildern | SPD | 2005 | 97.8% | 2013 | |
| Peter Boch | 1980 | Pforzheim | CDU | 2017 | 51.5% | 2017 | |
| Martin Staab | 1964 | Radolfzell on Lake Constance | independent | 2013 | 54.28% | 2013 | |
| Hans Jürgen Pütsch | 1961 | Rastatt | CDU | 2007 | 77.53% | 2015 | |
| Daniel Rapp | 1972 | Ravensburg | CDU | 2010 | 92.8% | 2018 | |
| Dirk Schönberger | 1972 | Remseck am Neckar | independent | 2014 | 50.4% | 2014 | |
| Thomas Keck | 1963 | Reutlingen | SPD | 2019 | 41.1% | 2019 | |
| Klaus Eberhardt | 1956 | Rheinfelden | SPD | 2012 | 66.5% | 2012 | |
| Sebastian Schrempp | 1978 | Rheinstetten | CDU | 2008 | 94.0% | 2015 | |
| Stephan Neher | 1974 | Rottenburg am Neckar | CDU | 2008 | 81.7% | 2016 | |
| Ralf Broß | 1966 | Rottweil | independent | 2009 | 96.3% | 2017 | |
| Matthias Klopfer | 1968 | Schorndorf | SPD | 2006 | 76.49% | 2014 | |
| Dorothee Eisenlohr | 1982 | Schramberg | independent | 2019 | 67.7% | 2019 | |
| Richard Arnold | 1959 | Schwäbisch Gmünd | CDU | 2009 | 85.41% | 2017 | |
| Hermann-Josef Pelgrim | 1959 | Schwäbisch Hall | SPD | 1997 | 79.2% | 2013 | |
| René Pöltl | 1967 | Schwetzingen | independent | 2008 | 78.16% | 2016 | |
| Bernd Voehringer | 1968 | Sindelfingen | CDU | 2001 | 93.78% | 2017 | |
| Bernd Häusler | 1966 | To sing | CDU | 2013 | 50.19% | 2013 | |
| Jörg Albrecht | 1968 | Sinsheim | independent | 2012 | 77.24% | 2012 | |
| Petra Becker | 1961 | Stutensee | independent | 2018 | 57.3% | 2018 | |
| Fritz Kuhn | 1955 | Stuttgart | GREEN | 2013 | 52.9% | 2012 | |
| Boris Palmer | 1972 | Tübingen | GREEN | 2007 | 61.7% | 2014 | |
| Michael Beck | 1960 | Tuttlingen | CDU | 2004 | 92% | 2019 | |
| Jan Zeitler | 1970 | Überlingen | SPD | 2016 | 50.1% | 2016 | |
| Gunter Czisch | 1963 | Ulm | CDU | 2016 | 52.9% | 2015 | |
| Gerd Maisch | 1964 | Vaihingen an der Enz | Free voters | 2006 | 94.70% | 2014 | |
| Jürgen Roth | 1963 | Villingen-Schwenningen | CDU | 2019 | 53.7% | 2018 | |
| Walter Heiler | 1954 | Waghausel | SPD | 1999 | 61.94% | 2015 | Mayor since 2013 |
| Andreas Hesky | 1964 | Waiblingen | Free voters | 2006 | 98.06% | 2013 | |
| Philipp Frank | 1968 | Waldshut-Tiengen | CDU | 2015 | 90% | 2015 | |
| Roman Götzmann | 1982 | Waldkirch | SPD | 2015 | 72.44% | 2015 | |
| Michael Lang | 1965 | Wangen in the Allgäu | independent | 2001 | 98.8% | 2017 | |
| Wolfgang Dietz | 1956 | Because on the Rhine | CDU | 2000 | 87.5% | 2016 | |
| Markus Ewald | 1964 | Vineyard | independent | 2008 | 73.5% | 2016 | |
| Manuel Just | 1978 | Weinheim | independent | 2018 | 56.3% | 2018 | |
| Michael Scharmann | 1974 | Wine town | Free voters | 2016 | 64.3% | 2016 | |
| Markus Herrera Torrez | 1988 | Wertheim | SPD | 2019 | 63.58% | 2019 | |
| Dirk Elkemann | 1970 | Wiesloch | independent | 2016 | 54.47% | 2015 | |
| Hartmut Holzwarth | 1969 | Winnenden | CDU | 2010 | 91.8% | 2018 |
Bavaria
| Surname | Geb.- year |
city | Political party | official competes |
last election result |
last choice |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Cerny | 1964 | On the mountain | CSU | 2020 | 56.4% | 2020 | |
| Thomas Deffner | Ansbach | CSU | 2020 | 62.3% | 2020 | ||
| Jürgen Herzing | 1960 | Aschaffenburg | SPD | 2020 | 66.6% | 2020 | |
| Eva Weber | 1977 | augsburg | CSU | 2020 | 62.3% | 2020 | |
| Dirk Vogel | 1977 | Bad Kissingen | SPD | 2020 | 51.09% | 2020 | |
| Christoph Lung | 1989 | Bad Reichenhall | CSU | 2020 | 53.8% | 2020 | |
| Andreas Starke | 1956 | Bamberg | SPD | 2006 | 54.88% | 2020 | |
| Thomas Ebersberger | 1957 | Bayreuth | CSU | 2020 | 53.6% | 2020 | |
| Dominik sourdough | 1986 | Coburg | SPD | 2020 | 57% | 2020 | |
| Florian Hartmann | 1986 | Dachau | SPD | 2014 | 76% | 2020 | |
| Christian Moser | 1977 | Deggendorf | CSU | 2012 | 66.37% | 2020 | |
| Frank Kunz | 1972 | Dillingen on the Danube | CSU | 2008 | 84.8% | 2020 | |
| Christoph Hammer | 1961 | Dinkelsbühl | CSU | 2003 | 59.18% | 2020 | |
| Jürgen Sorré | Donauwörth | independent | 2020 | 61.9% | 2020 | started with the support of the SPD | |
| Josef Grienberger | 1977 | Eichstatt | CSU | 2020 | 62.17% | 2020 | |
| Maximilian Gotz | 1963 | Erding | CSU | 2008 | 59.31% | 2020 | Mayor since 2013 |
| Florian Janik | 1980 | gain | SPD | 2014 | 59.31% | 2020 | |
| Uwe Kirschstein | 1977 | Forchheim | SPD | 2016 | 55.33% | 2020 | |
| Tobias Eschenbacher | 1977 | Freising | Freising center | 2012 | 65.5% | 2020 | |
| Erich Raff | 1953 | Fürstenfeldbruck | CSU | 2017 | 52.0% | 2017 | |
| Thomas Jung | 1961 | Fuerth | SPD | 2002 | 72.9% | 2020 | |
| Andreas Haas | 1964 | Germering | CSU | 2008 | 68.87% | 2020 | |
| Gerhard Jauernig | 1968 | Gunzburg | SPD | 2002 | 94.4% | 2020 | |
| Eva Döhla | 1972 | court | SPD | 2020 | 54.8% | 2020 | |
| Christian Scharpf | 1971 | Ingolstadt | SPD | 2020 | 59.3% | 2020 | |
| Stefan Bosse | 1964 | Kaufbeuren | CSU | 2004 | 54.5% | 2020 | |
| Thomas Kiechle | 1967 | Kempten (Allgäu) | CSU | 2014 | 54.32% | 2020 | |
| Stefan Güntner | Kitzingen | CSU | 2020 | 58.81% | 2020 | ||
| Ingo Lehmann | 1971 | Kulmbach | SPD | 2020 | 50.82% | 2020 | |
| Doris Baumgartl | 1962 | Landsberg am Lech | UBV | 2020 | 66.8% | 2020 | UBV stands for Independent Citizens' Association |
| Alexander Putz | 1963 | Landshut | FDP | 2017 | 70.4% | 2020 | |
| Claudia Alfons | 1983 | Lindau | independent | 2020 | 52.7% | 2020 | |
| Oliver Weigel | 1971 | Marktredwitz | CSU | 2014 | 96.2% | 2020 | |
| Manfred Schilder | 1958 | Memmingen | CSU | 2017 | 51.54% | 2017 | early election due to the death of Markus Kennerknecht |
| Dieter Reiter | 1958 | Munich | SPD | 2014 | 71.7% | 2020 | |
| Bernhard Gmehling | 1959 | Neuburg on the Danube | CSU | 2002 | 58.8% | 2020 | |
| Thomas Thumann | 1965 | Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate | Free voters | 2005 | 72.82% | 2020 | |
| Frank Rebhan | 1959 | Neustadt near Coburg | SPD | 1995 | 63.11% | 2013 | |
| Katrin Albsteiger | 1983 | New Ulm | CSU | 2020 | 53.2% | 2020 | |
| David Wittner | 1982 | Nordlingen | Free voters (PWG) | 2020 | 56.2% | 2020 | |
| Marcus King | 1980 | Nuremberg | CSU | 2020 | 52.20% | 2020 | |
| Jürgen Dupper | 1961 | Passau | SPD | 2008 | 54.62% | 2020 | |
| Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer | 1960 | regensburg | SPD | 2020 | 50.74% | 2020 | From January 27, 2017 until she took office, she was provisionally responsible for the city administration as the representative of the temporarily suspended Mayor Joachim Wolberg |
| Andreas March | Rosenheim | CSU | 2020 | 61.5% | 2020 | ||
| Markus Naser | 1981 | Rothenburg ob der Tauber | independent | 2020 | 60.17% | 2020 | |
| Peter Reiss | 1990 | Schwabach | SPD | 2020 | 53.7% | 2020 | |
| Andreas Feller | 1968 | Schwandorf | CSU | 2014 | 54.9% | 2020 | |
| Sebastian Remelé | 1969 | Schweinfurt | CSU | 2010 | 58.4% | 2020 | |
| Ulrich Poetzsch | 1971 | Same | Active citizens | 2013 | 85.6% | 2020 | |
| Markus Pannermayr | 1971 | Straubing | CSU | 2008 | 73.3% | 2020 | |
| Christian Hümmer | 1981 | Traunstein | CSU | 2020 | 60.05% | 2020 | |
| Jürgen Schröppel | 1962 | Weißenburg in Bavaria | SPD | 2008 | 51.41% | 2020 | |
| Jens Meyer | 1970 | Willows in the Upper Palatinate | SPD | 2020 | 51.3% | 2020 | |
| Christian Schuchardt | 1969 | Wurzburg | CDU | 2014 | 51.95% | 2020 |
Brandenburg
| Surname | Geb.- year |
city | Political party | official competes |
last election result |
last choice |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steffen Scheller | 1969 | Brandenburg on the Havel | CDU | 2018 | 66.6% | 2018 | |
| Holger Kelch | 1967 | cottbus | CDU | 2014 | 50.66% | 2014 | |
| René Wilke | 1984 | Frankfurt (Oder) | THE LEFT | 2018 | 62.5% | 2018 | |
| Mike Schubert | 1973 | Potsdam | SPD | 2018 | 55.3% | 2018 |
Bremen
| Surname | Geb.- year |
city | Political party | official competes |
last election result |
last choice |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melf Grantz | 1962 | Bremerhaven | SPD | 2011 | 68.42% | 2010 | was elected by the Bremerhaven city council |
Hesse
| Surname | Geb.- year |
city | Political party | official competes |
last election result |
last choice |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Hetjes | 1979 | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe | CDU | 2015 | 61.5% | 2015 | |
| Jochen Partsch | 1962 | Darmstadt | Green | 2011 | 50.4% | 2017 | |
| Peter Feldmann | 1958 | Frankfurt am Main | SPD | 2012 | 70.8% | 2018 | |
| Heiko Wingenfeld | 1973 | Fulda | CDU | 2015 | 66.6% | 2015 | |
| Dietlind Grabe-Bolz | 1957 | to water | SPD | 2009 | 53.6% | 2015 | |
| Claus Kaminsky | 1959 | Hanau | SPD | 2003 | 63.0% | 2015 | |
| Christian journeyman | 1976 | kassel | SPD | 2017 | 56.6% | 2017 | |
| Thomas Spies | 1962 | Marburg | SPD | 2015 | 60.0% | 2015 | |
| Felix Schwenke | 1979 | Offenbach am Main | SPD | 2018 | 67.0% | 2017 | |
| Udo Bausch | 1956 | Rüsselsheim am Main | independent | 2017 | 50.7% | 2017 | |
| Manfred Wagner | 1959 | Wetzlar | SPD | 2015 | 60.6% | 2015 | |
| Gert-Uwe Mende | 1962 | Wiesbaden | SPD | 2019 | 61.8% | 2019 |
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
| Surname | Geb.- year |
city | Political party | official competes |
last election result |
last choice |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stefan Fassbinder | 1966 | Greifswald | Green | 2015 | 50.04% | 2015 | Electoral alliance of the Greens, Left, SPD, Pirates |
| Silvio Witt | 1978 | Neubrandenburg | independent | 2015 | 69.7% | 2015 | |
| Claus rest Madsen | 1972 | Rostock | independent | 2019 | 57.1% | 2019 | |
| Rico Badenschier | 1978 | Schwerin | SPD | 2016 | 60.1% | 2016 | |
| Alexander Badrow | 1973 | Stralsund | CDU | 2008 | 65.1% | 2015 |
Lower Saxony
| Surname | Geb.- year |
city | Political party | official competes |
last election result |
last choice |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ulrich Markurth | 1956 | Braunschweig | SPD | 2014 | 66.5% | 2014 | |
| Jörg Nigge | 1974 | Celle | CDU | 2017 | 50.7% | 2016 | |
| Uwe Santjer | 1965 | Cuxhaven | SPD | 2019 | 51.0% | 2019 | |
| Axel Jahnz | 1957 | Delmenhorst | SPD | 2014 | 63.1% | 2014 | |
| Tim Kruithoff | 1977 | Emden | independent | 2019 | 75.4% | 2019 | supported by the CDU, the Greens, the FDP and the community of voters Together for Emden |
| Oliver Junk | 1976 | Goslar | CDU | 2011 | 93.7% | 2013 | until June 2014 CSU |
| Rolf-Georg Koehler | 1951 | Goettingen | SPD | 2014 | 58.9% | 2014 | |
| Claudio Griese | 1973 | Hamelin | CDU | 2014 | 56.7% | 2014 | |
| Belit Onay | 1981 | Hanover | Green | 2019 | 52.9% | 2019 | |
| Ingo Meyer | 1969 | Hildesheim | independent | 2014 | 53.0% | 2013 | |
| Dieter Krone | 1963 | Lingen | independent | 2010 | 73.93% | 2018 | |
| Ulrich Maiden | 1950 | Luneburg | SPD | 1991 | 71.4% | 2014 | |
| Jürgen Krogmann | 1963 | Oldenburg | SPD | 2006 | 69.2% | 2014 | |
| Wolfgang Griesert | 1957 | Osnabrück | CDU | 2013 | 54.85% | 2013 | |
| Frank Klingebiel | 1964 | Salzgitter | CDU | 2006 | 65.1% | 2014 | |
| Carsten Feist | 1969 | Wilhelmshaven | independent | 2019 | 53.6% | 2019 | |
| Klaus Mohrs | 1952 | Wolfsburg | SPD | 2012 | 63.1% | 2011 |
North Rhine-Westphalia
| Surname | Geb.- year |
city | Political party | official competes |
last election result |
last choice |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marcel Philipp | 1971 | Aachen | CDU | 2009 | 50.5% | 2014 | |
| Pit Clausen | 1962 | Bielefeld | SPD | 2009 | 55.9% | 2014 | |
| Thomas Eiskirch | 1970 | Bochum | SPD | 2015 | 53.1% | 2015 | |
| Ashok-Alexander Sridharan | 1965 | Bonn | CDU | 2015 | 50.06% | 2015 | |
| Bernd Carpenter | 1959 | Bottrop | SPD | 2009 | 66.1% | 2014 | |
| Ullrich Sierau | 1956 | Dortmund | SPD | 2010 | 51.6% | 2014 | |
| Sören Link | 1976 | Duisburg | SPD | 2012 | 56.88% | 2017 | |
| Thomas Geisel | 1963 | Dusseldorf | SPD | 2014 | 59.20% | 2014 | |
| Thomas Kufen | 1973 | eat | CDU | 2015 | 62.6% | 2015 | |
| Frank Baranowski | 1962 | Gelsenkirchen | SPD | 2004 | 67.4% | 2014 | |
| Erik O. Schulz | 1965 | Hagen | independent | 2014 | 62.7% | 2014 | supported by CDU, Greens and FDP |
| Thomas Hunsteger-Petermann | 1953 | Hamm | CDU | 1999 | 56.3% | 2014 | |
| Frank Dudda | 1963 | Herne | SPD | 2015 | 55.9% | 2015 | |
| Henriette Reker | 1956 | Cologne | independent | 2015 | 52.66% | 2015 | supported by CDU, Greens and FDP |
| Frank Meyer | 1974 | Krefeld | SPD | 2015 | 63.85% | 2015 | |
| Uwe Richrath | 1961 | Leverkusen | SPD | 2015 | 51.2% | 2015 | |
| Hans Wilhelm Reiners | 1955 | Mönchengladbach | CDU | 2014 | 50.44% | 2014 | |
| Ulrich Scholten | 1957 | Mülheim an der Ruhr | SPD | 2015 | 57.14% | 2015 | |
| Markus Lewe | 1965 | Muenster | CDU | 2009 | 50.59% | 2015 | |
| Daniel Schranz | 1974 | Oberhausen | CDU | 2015 | 52.5% | 2015 | |
| Burkhard Mast-Weisz | 1956 | Remscheid | SPD | 2014 | 57.5% | 2014 | |
| Tim Kurzbach | 1978 | Solingen | SPD | 2015 | 55.6% | 2015 | Kurzbach was the official candidate of the SPD and the Greens. |
| Andreas Mucke | 1966 | Wuppertal | SPD | 2015 | 59.7% | 2015 |
Rhineland-Palatinate
| Surname | Geb.- year |
city | Political party | official competes |
last election result |
last choice |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Achim huts | 1957 | Then after | SPD | 1994 | 78.2% | 2017 | |
| Heike Kaster-Meurer | 1964 | Bad Kreuznach | SPD | 2011 | 55.0% | 2014 | |
| Thomas Feser | 1965 | Bingen am Rhein | CDU | 2012 | 51.8% | 2012 | |
| Martin Hebich | 1972 | Frankenthal | CDU | 2016 | 50.2% | 2015 | |
| Frank Frühauf | 1968 | Idar-Oberstein | CDU | 2015 | 50.1% | 2014 | |
| Ralf Claus | 1960 | Ingelheim am Rhein | SPD | 2012 | 55.6% | 2019 | |
| Klaus Weichel | 1955 | Kaiserslautern | SPD | 2007 | 53.6% | 2014 | |
| David Langner | 1975 | Koblenz | SPD | 2018 | 69.8% | 2018 | |
| Peter Labonte | 1954 | Lahnstein | CDU | 1998 | 58.9% | 2013 | |
| Thomas Hirsch | 1967 | Landau in the Palatinate | CDU | 2016 | 53.2% | 2015 | |
| Jutta Steinruck | 1962 | Ludwigshafen am Rhein | SPD | 2018 | 58.1% | 2018 | |
| Michael Ebling | 1967 | Mainz | SPD | 2012 | 58.2% | 2012 | |
| Wolfgang Treis | 1960 | Mayen | Green | 2012 | 56.3% | 2012 | |
| Marc Weigel | 1978 | Neustadt an der Weinstrasse | FWG | 2018 | 58.1% | 2017 | |
| Jan Unity | 1976 | Neuwied | CDU | 2017 | 59.6% | 2017 | |
| Markus Zwick | 1977 | Pirmasens | CDU | 2019 | 51.2% | 2018 | |
| Stefanie Seiler | 1983 | Speyer | SPD | 2019 | 52.4% | 2018 | |
| Wolfram Leibe | 1960 | trier | SPD | 2015 | 50.2% | 2014 | |
| Adolf Kessel | 1957 | Worms | CDU | 2019 | 73.1% | 2018 | |
| Marold Wosnitza | 1965 | Zweibrücken | SPD | 2018 | 56.1% | 2018 |
Saarland
| Surname | Geb.- year |
city | Political party | official competes |
last election result |
last choice |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rüdiger Schneidewind | 1968 | Homburg | SPD | 2014 | 55.6% | 2014 | currently suspended from office |
| Jörg Aumann | 1969 | Neunkirchen | SPD | 2019 | 57.6% | 2019 | |
| Uwe Conradt | 1977 | Saarbrücken | CDU | 2019 | 50.3% | 2019 | |
| Ulli Meyer | 1973 | St. Ingbert | CDU | 2019 | 55.3% | 2019 | |
| Christiane Blatt | 1966 | Völklingen | SPD | 2018 | 51.1% | 2017 |
Saxony
| Surname | Year of birth | city | Political party | Taking office | last election result |
last choice |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rolf Schmidt | 1959 | Annaberg-Buchholz | FWG | 2015 | 69.1% | 2015 | FWG means Free Voters Community. |
| Heinrich Kohl 1 | 1956 | Aue | CDU | 1999 | 58.4% | 2013 | |
| Manfred Deckert | 1961 | Auerbach / Vogtl. | independent | 2008 | 93.5% | 2015 | |
| Alexander Ahrens | 1966 | Bautzen | SPD | 2015 | 48.1% | 2015 | joined the SPD as a non-party candidate only since 2017 |
| Holm big | 1966 | Bischofswerda | independent | 2015 | 66.0% | 2015 | |
| Simone Luedtke | 1971 | Borna | The left | 2008 | 55.8% | 2015 | |
| Martin Antonov | 1964 | Brand-Erbisdorf | independent | 2007 | 65.1% | 2014 | |
| Barbara Ludwig | 1962 | Chemnitz | SPD | 2006 | 63.8% | 2013 | |
| Frank Neupold | 1954 | Coswig | independent | 2008 | 87.6% | 2015 | |
| André Raphael | 1962 | Crimmitschau | CDU | 2017 | 44.9% | 2017 | |
| Manfred Wilde | 1962 | Delitzsch | independent | 2008 | 66.0% | 2015 | |
| Kerstin Körner | 1971 | Dippoldiswalde | CDU | 2019 | 75.0% | 2019 | |
| Sven Liebhauser | 1981 | Chub | CDU | 2019 | 65.7% | 2019 | |
| Dirk Hilbert | 1971 | Dresden | FDP | 2015 | 54.2% | 2015 | stood for the Independent Citizens for Dresden |
| Ralf Scheler | 1964 | Eilenburg | independent | 2015 | 67.1% | 2015 | |
| Volker Holuscha | 1961 | Flea | The left | 2015 | 42.4% | 2015 | |
| Sven Kruger | 1973 | Freiberg | independent | 2015 | 54.0% | 2015 | stood for the SPD, since 2018 non-party |
| Uwe Rumberg | 1958 | Freital | CDU | 2015 | 51.3% | 2015 | |
| Peter Dresler | 1955 | Glauchau | independent | 2008 | 72.2% | 2015 | |
| Octavian Urzu | 1967 | Goerlitz | CDU | 2019 | 55.2% | 2019 | |
| Matthias Berger | 1968 | Grimma | independent | 2001 | 89.9% | 2015 | Mayor since 2008 |
| Sven Kruger | 1978 | Grossenhain | independent | 2015 | 65.4% | 2015 | |
| Lars Kluge | 1977 | Hohenstein-Ernstthal | CDU | 2012 | 63.8% | 2019 | |
| Stefan Skora | 1960 | Hoyerswerda | CDU | 2006 | 36.3% | 2013 | |
| Roland Dantz | 1958 | Kamenz | independent | 2004 | 94.6% | 2018 | |
| Thomas Hennig | Klingenthal | CDU | 2013 | 97.6% | 2013 | Lord Mayor from August 8, 2019 | |
| Burkhard Jung | 1958 | Leipzig | SPD | 2006 | 45.0% | 2013 | |
| Jesko Vogel | 1974 | Limbach-Oberfrohna | Free voters | 2015 | 51.8% | 2015 | |
| Dietmar Buchholz | 1954 | Löbau | independent | 2001 | 64.1% | 2015 | |
| André Heinrich | 1966 | Marienberg | independent | 2015 | 70.5% | 2015 | |
| Karsten Schütze | 1966 | Markkleeberg | SPD | 2013 | 67.7% | 2013 | |
| Olaf Raschke | 1963 | Meissen | independent | 2004 | 43.5% | 2018 | |
| Ralf Schreiber | 1961 | Mittweida | CDU | 2015 | 95.9% | 2015 | |
| Beate Hoffmann | 1967 | Niesky | independent | 2014 | 57.8% | 2014 | |
| Mario Horn | 1972 | Oelsnitz / Vogtl. | CDU | 2011 | 61.3% | 2019 | |
| Andreas Kretschmar | 1963 | Oschatz | independent | 2001 | 96.6% | 2015 | |
| Klaus-Peter Hanke | 1953 | Pirna | FW | 2010 | 60.5% | 2017 | ran as a non-party candidate |
| Ralf Oberdorfer | 1960 | Plauen | FDP | 2000 | 53.7% | 2014 | started as a non-party candidate |
| Gerhard Lemm | 1959 | Radeberg | SPD | 1994 | 96.1% | 2017 | |
| Bert Wendsche | 1964 | Radebeul | independent | 2001 | 73.7% | 2015 | |
| Raphael Kurzinger | 1967 | Reichenbach in Vogtland | CDU | 2016 | 55.5% | 2016 | |
| Marco Müller | 1975 | Riesa | CDU | 2014 | 57.1% | 2014 | |
| Frank Dehne | 1973 | Rochlitz | independent | 2015 | 54.5% | 2015 | |
| Rayk Bergner | 1972 | Schkeuditz | CDU | 2017 | 60.3% | 2017 | |
| Heidrun Hiemer | 1952 | Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. | CDU | 2001 | 72.6% | 2015 | |
| Mike Ruckh | 1964 | Sebnitz | CDU | 1993 | 92.5% | 2015 | |
| Marcel Schmidt | 1973 | Stollberg / Erzgeb. | FWU | 2004 | 64.8% | 2017 | FWU means Free Voters Union. |
| Romina Barth | 1983 | Torgau | CDU | 2015 | 50.2% | 2015 | |
| Torsten Pötzsch | 1971 | Weißwasser / Upper Lusatia | Plain text | 2010 | 51.2% | 2017 | |
| Sören Kristensen | 1964 | Werdau | UL | 2019 | 51.8% | 2019 | UL means Independent List. |
| Jörg Röglin | 1970 | Spice up | SPD | 2008 | 58.2% | 2015 | joined the SPD as a non-party candidate only since 2017 |
| Thomas Zenker | 1975 | Zittau | ZKM | 2015 | 47.8% | 2015 | ZKM means Zittau can do more. |
| Arne Sigmund | 1970 | Zschopau | independent | 2015 | 35.0% | 2015 | |
| Pia Findeiß | 1956 | Zwickau | SPD | 2008 | 62.1% | 2015 |
1He is listed as Heinrich Kohl on the homepage of the city of Aue. In the statistics of Saxony he is listed as Franz Heinrich Kohl.
Saxony-Anhalt
| Surname | Geb.- year |
city | Political party | official competes |
last election result |
last choice |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andreas Michelmann | 1959 | Aschersleben | WIDAB | 1994 | 76% | 2015 | WIDAB means voters' initiative Die Aschersleber Bürger. |
| Henry Sagittarius | 1955 | Bernburg | independent | 2008 | 73.9% | 2014 | |
| Armin Schenk | 1961 | Bitterfeld-Wolfen | CDU | 2016 | 57.91% | 2016 | |
| Peter Kuras | 1958 | Dessau-Rosslau | FDP | 2014 | 75.82% | 2014 | started as an independent candidate, supported in the runoff by CDU, LINKE, SPD, GRÜNE and FDP |
| Andreas Henke | 1962 | Halberstadt | The left | 2007 | 53.65% | 2013 | |
| Bernd Wiegand | 1957 | Halle (Saale) | independent | 2012 | 52.92% | 2012 | |
| Bernd Hauschild | 1961 | Koethen | Non-party | 2015 | 56.1% | 2015 | until July 2020 SPD |
| Lutz Trümper | 1955 | Magdeburg | SPD | 2001 | 69.2% | 2015 | independent from October 2015 to June 2017 |
| Jens Bühligen | 1966 | Merseburg | CDU | 2008 | 69% | 2015 | |
| Bernward Küper | 1963 | Naumburg | CDU | 2007 | 53.95% | 2014 | |
| Sven Strauss | 1974 | Sangerhausen | SPD | 2017 | 56.96% | 2017 | |
| Sven Wagner | 1974 | Staßfurt | SPD | 2015 | 55.49% | 2015 | |
| Klaus Schmotz | 1952 | Stendal | independent | 2001 | 50.2% | 2015 | nominated and supported by the CDU |
| Robby Risch | 1962 | Weissenfels | independent | 2008 | 64.9% | 2015 | |
| Peter Gaffert | 1960 | Wernigerode | independent | 2008 | 67.05% | 2015 | |
| Torsten belonging | 1972 | Wittenberg | independent | 2015 | 85.7% | 2015 | |
| Christian Thieme | 1972 | Time | CDU | 2016 | 58.8% | 2016 |
Schleswig-Holstein
| Surname | Year of birth | city | Political party | Taking office | last election result |
last choice |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simone Lange | 1976 | Flensburg | SPD | 2017 | 51.4% | 2016 | |
| Ulf fighter | 1972 | Kiel | SPD | 2014 | 63.1% | 2014 | |
| Olaf Tauras | 1967 | Neumunster | CDU | 2009 | 59.8% | 2015 | |
| Elke Christina Roeder | 1966 | Norderstedt | SPD | 2017 | 55.3% | 2017 |
Thuringia
| Surname | Year of birth | city | Political party | Taking office | last election result |
last choice |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| André Neumann | 1977 | Altenburg | CDU | 2018 | 55.6% | 2018 | |
| Katja Wolf | 1976 | Eisenach | The left | 2012 | 58.0% | 2018 | |
| Andreas Bausewein | 1973 | Erfurt | SPD | 2006 | 58.5% | 2018 | |
| Julian Vonarb | 1972 | Gera | independent | 2018 | 69.8% | 2018 | |
| Knut Kreuch | 1966 | Gotha | SPD | 2006 | 61.1% | 2018 | |
| Daniel Schultheiss | 1980 | Ilmenau | independent | 2018 | 51.4% | 2018 | |
| Thomas Nitzsche | 1975 | Jena | FDP | 2018 | 63.3% | 2018 | |
| Johannes Bruns | 1966 | Mulhouse | SPD | 2012 | 62.7% | 2018 | |
| Kai Buchmann | 1976 | Nordhausen | independent | 2017 | 66.2% | 2017 | |
| André Knapp | 1973 | Suhl | CDU | 2018 | 52.4% | 2018 | supported by the FDP |
| Peter Kleine | 1972 | Weimar | independent | 2018 | 60.3% | 2018 | supported by the CDU and the Weimarwerk civic alliance |
literature
- Heinrich Böll Foundation (Ed.): Fourth gender ranking of major German cities 2017. Berlin April 2017 (also mayors; download page ).
- Helga Lukoschat, Jana Belschner: Women lead municipalities: An investigation into mayors in East and West. Published by the European Academy for Women in Politics and Business Berlin (EAF), Berlin 2014 ( download page ).
Documentation
- Meike Materne: Head of the town hall - mayors in Germany. ZDF 2019 ( overview with video: 30 minutes; available until September 21, 2020).
Web links
- Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ): Equal Opportunities Atlas: Administrative Heads. In: bmfsfj.de. Data status: December 2017 (representation of women at the top of local authorities).
- State gazette for Baden-Württemberg : Mayoral elections: Current election results. In: Staatsanzeiger.de.
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://mi.sachsen-anhalt.de/fileadmin/Bibliothek/Ppolitik_und_Verwaltung/MI/MI/4._Service/Publikationen/3._Abteilung_3/Kommunales/Kommunalrecht2018_1.pdf
- ^ City of Herne press office: City of Herne - Lord Mayor. February 27, 2018, accessed August 18, 2018 .
- ↑ The Suhl Free Democrats support Andre Knapp. In: fdp-thueringen.de. FDP Thuringia , April 27, 2018, accessed on August 28, 2018 .