List of mayors of Bonn
Encyclopedia
This is a list of mayor
s of Bonn
. The list includes the mayors (Oberbürgermeister) since 1800, as well as the city manager
s (Oberstadtdirektoren) from 1947 until 1996 when the office was terminated.
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Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
s of Bonn
Bonn
Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
. The list includes the mayors (Oberbürgermeister) since 1800, as well as the city manager
City manager
A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council-manager form of city government. Local officials serving in this position are sometimes referred to as the chief executive officer or chief administrative officer in some municipalities...
s (Oberstadtdirektoren) from 1947 until 1996 when the office was terminated.
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Mayors (Oberbürgermeister)
- 1800–1802: Johann Joseph Eichhoff
- 1802–1804: Nicolas Joseph Lejeune (kommissarisch)
- 1804–1816: Anton Maria Karl Graf von Belderbusch
- 1816–1816: Peter Joseph Eilender (kommissarisch)
- 1817–1839: Johann Martin Joseph Windeck
- 1840–1850: Karl Edmund Joseph Oppenhoff
- 1851–1875: Leopold KaufmannLeopold KaufmannLeopold Kaufmann was a German politician. Brother of the poet and folklorist Alexander Kaufmann, he became Chief Burgomaster of Bonn.-Life:...
- 1875–1891: Hermann Jakob Doetsch
- 1891–1919: Wilhelm Spiritus
- 1920–1922: Fritz Bottler
- 1923–1931: Dr. Johannes Nepomuk Maria Falk
- 1932–1933: Dr. Franz Wilhelm Lürken
- 1933–1945: Ludwig Rickert
- 1945–1948: Eduard Spoelgen
- 1948–1951: Dr. Peter Stockhausen, CDU
- 1951–1956: Peter Maria Busen, CDU
- 1956–1969: Dr. Wilhelm Daniels, CDU
- 1969–1975: Peter Kraemer, CDU
- 1975–1994: Dr. Hans Daniels, CDU
- 1994–2009: Bärbel DieckmannBärbel DieckmannBärbel Dieckmann was elected mayor of Bonn in 1994. She is the first woman and first Social Democrat to become mayor of Bonn...
, SPD - From 2009: Jürgen Nimptsch, SPD (mayor-elect, term starts on 29 October 2009)
City managers (Oberstadtdirektoren)
- 1947–1956: Dr. Johannes Langendörfer
- 1956–1964: Dr. Franz Schmidt CDU
- 1964–1975: Dr. Wolfgang Hesse CDU
- 1976–1987: Dr. Karl-Heinz van Kaldenkerken CDU
- 1987–1996: Dieter Diekmann CDU