Major Cities of Poland

Bydgoszcz (Bromberg)

Gdansk (Danzig)

1138                      Part of Poland

14 Nov 1308               Conquered by the Teutonic Order

06 Mar 1454               Restored to Poland

25 May 1457               Free City of Danzig

07 Apr 1793               Annexed by Prussia

10 Dec 1870               Within German Empire

10 Jan 1920               Under allied authority

15 Nov 1920               Free City of Danzig under the League of Nations

01 Sep 1939               Restored to Germany

30 Mar 1945               Soviet occupation

02 Apr 1945               Restored to Poland

Prussian Governor

02 Jan      - 19 Feb 1814 Friedrich Ehrhard Fabian

                           von Massenbach ........................... 1753-1819

High Commissioners

12 Nov 1919 - 07 Sep 1920 Sir Reginald Thomas Tower ................. 1860-1939 (U.K)

15 Nov      - 10 Dec 1920 Edward Lisle Strutt ....................... 1874-1948 (U.K)

10 Dec 1920 - 24 Jan 1921 Bernardo Attolico ......................... 1880-1942 (U.K)

24 Jan 1921 -    Jan 1923 Sir Richard Cyril Byrne Haking ............ 1862-1945 (U.K)

06 Mar 1923 -    Nov 1925 Mervyn Sorley McDonnell ................... 1880-1949 (U.K)

13 Dec 1925 - 22 Jun 1929 Joost Adriaan van Hamel ................... 1880-1964 (Netherlands)

22 Jun 1929 - 19 Sep 1932 Manfredi conte di Gravina

                           dei principi di Ramacca .................. 1883-1932 (Italy)

16 Oct 1932 - 15 Jan 1934 Helmer Rostgaard Gommesen Rosting ......... 1893-1945 (Denmark)

15 Jan 1934 -    Jan 1937 Sean Lester ............................... 1888-1959 (Ireland)

13 Apr 1937 - 01 Sep 1939 Carl Jakob Burkhardt ...................... 1891-1974 (Switzerland)

Reichsstathalter

01 Sep 1939 - 02 Apr 1945 Albert Maria Forster ...................... 1902-1952 NSDAP

Oberbürgermeister

19 Feb 1814 - 31 Dec 1849 Joachim Heinrich von Weickhmann ........... 1769-1857

01 Jan 1850 - 31 Dec 1862 Carl August Groddeck ...................... 1794-1877

01 Jan 1863 - 31 Dec 1890 Johann Friedrich Karl Adolf Leopold

                           von Winter ............................... 1823-1893

01 Jan 1891 - 21 Jan 1896 Karl Adolf Baumbach ....................... 1844-1896

21 Jan 1896 - 31 Dec 1902 Clemens Gottlieb Ernst Delbrück ........... 1856-1921

01 Jan 1903 - 08 Feb 1910 Heinrich Otto Ehlers ...................... 1846-1910

08 Feb 1910 - 08 Oct 1918 Heinrich Scholtz .......................... 1874-1918

Presidents of the Senate

10 Jan 1920 - 10 Jan 1931 Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Sahm ........... 1877-1939

10 Jan 1931 - 20 Jun 1933 Dr. Ernst Ziehm ........................... 1867-1962

20 Jun 1933 - 23 Nov 1934 Herman Adolf Reinhold Rauschning .......... 1887-1982 NSDAP

23 Nov 1934 - 23 Aug 1939 Arthur Karl Geisler ....................... 1897-1946 NSDAP

Oberbürgermeister

01 Nov 1939 - 30 Mar 1945 Georg Lippke .............................. 1906-1999 NSDAP

Mayors

02 Apr 1945 - 27 May 1946 Franciszek Kotus-Jankowski ................ 1891-1958

28 May 1946 - 06 Oct 1949 Bolesław Nowicki

06 Oct 1949 - 19 Feb 1953 Piotr Stolarek ............................ 1908-1976

19 Feb 1953 - 16 Dec 1954 Stanisław Schmidt (1st Time)

16 Dec 1954 - 12 Feb 1958 Julian Cybulski

12 Feb 1958 - 27 Feb 1963 Stanisław Schmidt (2nd Time)

27 Feb 1963 - 10 Jun 1969 Tadeusz Bejm .............................. 1929-1988

10 Jun 1969 - 13 Dec 1973 Jan Nikolajew

13 Dec 1973 - 15 Sep 1977 Andrzej Kaznowski

15 Sep 1977 - 22 Dec 1981 Jerzy Marian Młynarczyk ................... 1931-

22 Dec 1981 - 23 Nov 1989 Kazimierz Rynkowski

23 Nov 1989 - 10 Jul 1990 Jerzy Pasinski

10 Jul 1990 - 14 Jun 1991 Jacek Starościak .......................... 1947-

14 Jun 1991 - 07 Jul 1994 Franciszek Jamroż

08 Jul 1994 - 26 Oct 1998 Tomasz Posadzki ........................... 1961-

26 Oct 1998 - 14 Jan 2019 Pawel Bogdan Adamowicz .................... 1965-2019

14 Jan 2019 -             Aleksandra Dulkiewicz ..................... 1979-

Kraków

1138 - 1320               Duchy of Krakow

1333 - 1795               Part of Poland

26 Apr 1795               Annexed by Austria

14 Ocr 1809 - 1813        Part of Grand Duchy of Warsaw

03 May 1815 - 03 Mar 1846 Free, Independent and Neutral City of Krakow

03 Mar 1846               Annexed by Austria

21 Dec 1867               Part of the Austrian half of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

1916 - 1918               Part of the Polish Kindom (central powers client state)

15 Oct 1918               Part of Poland thereafter

1990                      Stołeczne Królewskie Miasto Kraków (Royal Capital City

                          of Krakow)

Mayors

14 Apr      – 11 Sep 1792 Franciszek Wielopolski .................... 1732-1809

12 Sep 1792 – 05 Mar 1794 Maciej Bajer (1st Time) ................... 1730-1800

06 Mar      – 23 Apr 1794 Filip Nereusz Lichocki .................... 1749-1806

23 Apr      – 14 Jun 1794 Michał Wohlman

15 Jun 1794 – 31 Oct 1798 Maciej Bajer (2nd Time)

01 Nov 1798 – 31 Aug 1802 Filip Nereusz Lichocki (2nd Time)

01 Sep 1802 – 1805        Dominik Drdatzki

1805 – 1810               Josef Gollmayer

01 Dec 1810 – 31 Oct 1815 Stanisław Kostka Zarzecki

01 Jan      – 11 Apr 1816 Józef Matecki ............................. 1776-1819

11 Apr      – 31 Jul 1816 Feliks Grodzicki .......................... 1760-1838

Chairmen of the Governing Senate

01 Nov 1815 - 18 Jan 1831 Count Stanislaw Karol Wodzicki ............ 1759-1843

18 Jan 1831 - 24 Mar 1833 No permanent Chairman

24 Mar 1833 - 26 Feb 1836 Kacper Wieloglowski

26 Feb 1836 - 27 Apr 1839 Józef Haller de Hallenburg ................ 1783-1850

27 Apr      - 27 Oct 1839 Antoni Bystrzonowski (1st Time) ........... 1769-1848

27 Oct      - 27 Dec 1839 Jan Chrzciciel Schindler (1st Time) ....... 1802-1890

27 Dec 1839 - 27 Feb 1840 Antoni Bystrzonowski (2nd Time)

27 Feb      - 27 Apr 1840 Jan Chrzciciel Schindler (2nd Time)

27 Apr      - 27 Jun 1840 Antoni Bystrzonowski (3rd Time)

27 Jun      - 27 Aug 1840 Jan Chrzciciel Schindler (3rd Time)

27 Aug      - 27 Oct 1840 Antoni Bystrzonowski (4th Time)

27 Oct      - 27 Dec 1840 Jan Chrzciciel Schindler (4th Time)

27 Dec 1840 - 27 Feb 1841 Antoni Bystrzonowski (5th Time)

27 Feb 1841 - 22 Feb 1846 Jan Chrzciciel Schindler (5th Time)

Chairman of the Committee of Safety

22 Feb 1846               Count Józef Wincenty Wodzicki (1st Time)

22 Feb      - 24 Feb 1846 Ludwik Gorzkowski

                        - Jan Józef Tyssowski

                        - Aleksander Górka-Grzegorzewski

Dictator of the Polish Republic

02 Mar      - 02 Mar 1846 Jan Józef Tyssowski

Chairman of the Committee of Safety

02 Mar      - 03 Mar 1846 Count Józef Wincenty Wodzicki

Mayors

07 Oct 1848 – 19 Apr 1849 Józef Walenty Krzyżanowski ................ 1799-1849

19 Apr 1849 – 27 Jun 1853 Ignacy Paprocki

01 Jul 1853 – 28 Aug 1856 Fryderyk Tobiaszek ........................ 1803-1856

26 Oct 1856 – 12 Sep 1866 Andrzej Seidler-Wiślański ................. 1812-1895

13 Sep 1866 – 18 Jun 1874 Józef Dietl ............................... 1804-1878

02 Jul 1874 – 07 Feb 1881 Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz ...................... 1823-1887

17 Feb 1881 – 17 Sep 1884 Ferdinand Weigel .......................... 1826-1901

17 Sep 1884 – 10 May 1893 Feliks Szlachtowski ....................... 1820-1896

24 May 1893 – 07 Jul 1904 Josef Eduard Friedlein .................... 1831-1917

11 Jul 1904 – 21 Feb 1918 Juliusz Franciszek Leo .................... 1861-1918

06 Mar 1918 – 13 Jul 1924 Jan Kanty Federowicz ...................... 1858-1924

21 Jul 1924 – 18 Jul 1925 Zdzisław Wawrausch ........................ 1865-1932

21 Jul 1925 – 04 Jun 1926 Witold Tadeusz Ostrowski .................. 1875-1942

19 Jun 1926 – 13 Jul 1931 Karol Rolle ............................... 1871-1954

16 Jul 1931 – 11 Feb 1933 Władysław Zygmunt Belina-Prażmowski ....... 1888-1938

16 Feb 1933 – 01 Feb 1939 Mieczysław Kaplicki ....................... 1875-1959

21 Apr      – 03 Sep 1939 Bolesław Roman Czuchajowski ............... 1886-1941

03 Sep      – 20 Sep 1939 Stanisław Klimecki ........................ 1883-1942

20 Sep 1939 – 22 Feb 1940 Ernst Emil Zörner ......................... 1895-1945?

23 Feb 1940 –    Mar 1941 Karl Schmid

   Apr 1941 –    Apr 1943 Rudolf Pavlu .............................. 1902-1949

   Apr 1943 – 18 Jan 1945 Josef Kramer

21 Jan      – 02 Feb 1945 Aleksander Żaruk-Michalski ................ 1906-1992

05 Feb      – 11 Mar 1945 Alfred Fiderkiewicz ....................... 1886-1972

14 Mar 1945 – 06 Oct 1947 Stefan Wolas .............................. 1897-1976

06 Oct 1947 – 06 Jun 1950 Henryk Dobrowolski ........................ 1904-1985

06 Jun 1950 – 07 Apr 1954 Marcin Waligóra ........................... 1906-1979

07 Apr 1954 – 24 Oct 1957 Tadeusz Mrugacz ........................... 1907-1978

24 Oct 1957 – 06 Nov 1959 Wiktor Boniecki ........................... 1918-1997

06 Nov 1959 – 05 Jun 1969 Zbigniew Skolicki ......................... 1908-1971

06 Jun 1969 – 26 Apr 1978 Jerzy Pękala .............................. 1929-

27 Apr 1978 – 20 Jun 1980 Edward Barszcz ............................ 1928-1981

26 Apr 1980 – 08 Dec 1982 Józef Gajewicz ............................ 1944-

09 Dec 1982 – 13 Jan 1990 Tadeusz Salw .............................. 1943-2014

09 Feb      – 29 May 1990 Jerzy Rościszewski ........................ 1936-

20 Jun 1990 – 11 Jan 1991 Jacek Woźniakowski ........................ 1920-2012

07 Feb 1991 – 30 Sep 1992 Krzysztof Bachmiński ...................... 1951-

09 Oct 1992 – 29 Oct 1998 Józef Lassota ............................. 1943-

29 Oct 1998 – 19 Jul 2002 Andrzej Maria Gołaś ....................... 1946-     PO

19 Jul 2002 -             Jacek Maria Majchrowski ................... 1947-

Szczecin (Stettin)

Waszawa

07 Jan 1795 - 04 Aug 1915 Annexed by Russia

1807 - 1815               Capital of the Duchy of Warsaw

04 Aug 1915 - 11 Nov 1918 German occupation

       1916               Restored as the national capital

08 Sep      - 28 Sep 1939 Under siege by the German Wehrmarcht

28 Sep 1939 - 20 Jan 1945 German occupation

01 Aug      - 02 Oct 1944 Failed Warsaw Uprising against Nazi Germany,

                           80% of the city is destroyed

14 Sep 1944               Soviets occupy the east bank of the Vistula

20 Jan 1945               Liberated by Soviet forces

City Presidents

1702 - 1703               Alexander Chalmers ........................ 1645-1703

1724 - 1727               Józef Benedykt Loupia

1781 - 1788               Wojciech Lobert

23 Feb 1789 - 04 Oct 1790 Jan Dekert ................................ 1738-1790

       1791  -13 Apr 1792 Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (1st Time)

16 Apr      - 25 Aug 1792 Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski ............... 1745-1802

                          (1st Time)

25 Aug 1792 - 20 Mar 1793 Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (2nd Time)

21 Mar 1793 - 17 Apr 1794 Andrzej Rafałowicz ........................ 1736-1823

17 Apr      - 03 Nov 1794 Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski (2nd Time)

20 Nov 1794 - 25 Jul 1796 Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (3rd Time)

25 Jul 1796 - 23 Apr 1799 Franz Schimmelpfennig von der Ove

23 Apr 1799 - 27 Nov 1806 Friedrich Georg Tilly ..................... 1742-1811

   Dec 1806 - 21 Feb 1807 Joachim Moszyński

17 Apr      - 04 Jul 1807 Paweł Bieliński

04 Jul 1807 -    Dec 1815 Stanisław Węgrzecki ....................... 1765-1845

06 Jan 1806 - 30 Nov 1830 Karol Fryderyk Wojda ...................... 1771-1845

01 Dec 1830 - 26 Jun 1831 Stanisław Węgrzecki (2nd Time)

17 Jul 1831 - 1837        Jakub Ignacy Łaszczyński .................. 1791-1865

       1837 - 09 Nov 1847 Aleksander Józef Graybner ................. 1786-1847

10 Nov 1847 -    Feb 1862 Teodor Andrault de Langeron ............... 1804-1885

   Feb      - 15 Aug 1862 Kazimierz Wojda ........................... 1812-1877

16 Aug 1862 - 18 Sep 1863 Zygmunt Andrzej Wielopolski ............... 1833-1902

19 Sep 1863 - 01 Oct 1875 Kalikst Witkowski ......................... 1818-1877

18 Nov 1875 - 06 Oct 1892 Sokrat Ivanovich Star'inkevich  ........... 1820-1902

06 Oct 1892 - 29 Jun 1906 Nikolay Valeryevich Bibikov ............... 1842-1923

29 Jun 1906 - 26 Apr 1909 Wiktor Litwiński

04 Sep 1909 - 04 Aug 1915 Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Müller ........... 1862-1923

05 Aug 1916 - 06 Oct 1917 Prince Zdzisław Lubomirski ................ 1865-1943

20 Mar 1919 - 28 Nov 1921 Piotr Stanislaw Drzewiecki ................ 1865-1943

28 Nov 1921 - 07 Dec 1922 Stanislaw Nowodworski ..................... 1873-1931

07 Dec 1922 - 04 Jul 1927 Wladyslaw Jablonski ....................... 1872-1952

04 Jul 1927 - 17 Feb 1934 Zygmunt Słomiński ......................... 1879-1943

17 Feb      - 28 Jun 1934 Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowsk ............... 1892-1946

28 Jun      - 02 Aug 1934 Józef Olpinski

02 Aug 1934 - 27 Oct 1939 Stefan Bronisław Starzyński ............... 1893-1939

27 Oct 1939 - 01 Aug 1944 Julian Spitosław Kulski ................... 1893-1976

                          (in opposition)

28 Oct      - 05 Nov 1939 Helmut Otto ............................... 1892-1974

05 Nov 1939 - 20 Mar 1940 Oskar Rudolf Dengel ....................... 1899-1964

20 Mar 1940 - 31 Jul 1944 Ludwig Leist .............................. 1891-1967

05 Aug      - 01 Oct 1944 Marceli Porowski .......................... 1894-1963

                          (in opposition)

01 Oct 1944 - 05 Mar 1945 Marian Spychalski ......................... 1906-1980

05 Mar 1945 - 23 May 1950 Stanislaw Tołwiński ....................... 1895-1969

23 May 1950 - 14 May 1956 Jerzy Albrecht ............................ 1914-1992

14 May      - 17 Dec 1956 Janusz Zarzycki ........................... 1914-1995

                          (1st Time)

17 Dec 1956 - 05 May 1960 Zygmunt Dworakowski ....................... 1905-1971

05 May 1960 - 29 Dec 1967 Janusz Zarzycki (2nd Time)

30 Dec 1967 - 18 Feb 1982 Jerzy Majewski ............................ 1914-1992

18 Feb 1982 - 05 Dec 1986 Mieczysław Dębicki ........................ 1926-2001

05 Dec 1986 - 30 Jan 1990 Jerzy Stanisław Bolesławski ............... 1940-

30 Jan 1990 - 05 Oct 1994 Stanisław Wyganowski ...................... 1919-

05 Oct      - 03 Nov 1994 Mieczysław Bareja ......................... 1939-2003

03 Nov 1994 - 30 Mar 1999 Marcin Święcicki .......................... 1947-

30 Mar 1999 - 14 Jan 2002 Paweł Bartłomiej Piskorski ................ 1968-

14 Jan      - 18 Nov 2002 Wojciech Kozak ............................ 1963-

18 Nov 2002 - 22 Dec 2005 Lech Aleksander Kaczynski ................. 1949-2010

22 Dec 2005 - 18 Jul 2006 Mirosław Kochalski ........................ 1965-

18 Jul      - 02 Dec 2006 Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz ................... 1959-

02 Dec 2006 - 22 Nov 2018 Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz ................... 1952-

22 Nov 2018 -             Rafał Kazimierz Trzaskowski ............... 1972-

Wrocław (Breslau)

c.800 - 1202              Part of Bohemia (called Vratislav)

1202 - 1335               Part of Poland (within the Duchy of Silesia)

1335 - 1742               Part of Bohemia

1742 - 1945               Part of Prussia (Germany from 1871)

16 Feb      - 06 May 1945 Under Siege by Soviet forces

1945                      Transfered to Poland (German population expelled)

Oberbürgermeister

10 Nov 1806 - 1812        Benjamin Gottlieb Müller .................. 1752-1816

       1812 - 04 Aug 1832 Friedrich August Karl von Kospoth ......... 1767-1832

       1833 - 06 Apr 1838 Gottlieb Donatus Menzel ................... 1770-1838

       1838 - 23 Aug 1842 Karl Gottlieb Lange ....................... 1780-1842

1843 - 1848               Julius Hermann Pinder ..................... 1805-1867

1851 - 1863               Alexander Julius Elwanger ................. 1807-1878

1863 - 1872               Arthur Heinrich Ludolf Johnson Hobrecht ... 1824-1912

08 Jul 1872 - 26 Sep 1878 Maximilian Franz August von Forckenbeck ... 1821-1892

       1879 - 05 Mar 1891 Ferdinand Julius Ernst Friedensburg ....... 1824-1891

01 Apr 1891 - 30 Sep 1912 Georg Bender .............................. 1848-1924

01 Oct 1912 - 1919        Paul Matting .............................. 1859-1935

1919 - 1933               Otto Heinrich Ludwig Wagner ............... 1877-1862

1933 - 1934               Helmut Rebicki ............................ 1896-1968

16 Dec 1934 - 17 Oct 1943 Hans Friedrich ............................ 1884-1947

17 Oct 1944 - 02 Apr 1945 Ernst von Leichtenstern ................... 1895-1945

                          (Kommissar)

02 Feb      - 02 Mar 1945 Maj-Gen. Hans von Ahlfen .................. 1897-1966

                          (Commander)

02 Mar      - 06 May 1945 Gen. Hermann Niehoff ...................... 1897-1980

                          (Commander)

Mayors

14 Mar      - 09 Jun 1945 Bolesław Drobner .......................... 1883-1968

13 Jun 1945 - 15 Feb 1947 Aleksander Wachniewski

15 Feb 1947 - 1950        Bolesław Kupczyński ....................... 1908-1994

1950 - 1952               Józef Barczyk

1952 - 1956               Marian Dryll

04 Apr 1956 - 02 Feb 1958 Eugeniusz Król

02 Feb 1958 - 07 Jun 1969 Bolesław Iwaszkiewicz ..................... 1900-1983

07 Jun 1969 - 06 Dec 1972 Stanisław Panek ........................... 1928-2011

06 Dec 1972 - 31 May 1975 Marian Czuliński .......................... 1930-

01 Jun 1975 - 22 Jan 1979 Zbigniew Czesław Nadratowski .............. 1928-2007

22 Jan 1979 - 25 May 1984 Janusz Waldemar Owczarek .................. 1932-

25 May 1984 - 13 Dec 1985 Stanisław Apoznański ...................... 1940-

26 Mar 1986 - 04 Jun 1990 Stefan Skąpski ............................ 1936-

04 Jun 1990 - 08 May 2001 Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski ................. 1957-

08 May 2001 - 19 Nov 2002 Stanisław Tadeusz Huskowski ............... 1953-

19 Nov 2002 - 19 Nov 2018 Rafał Franciszek Dutkiewicz ............... 1959-

19 Nov 2018 -             Jacek Zbigniew Sutryk ..................... 1978-

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