List of mayors of Düsseldorf

This is a list of Mayors of Düsseldorf, Germany. The mayor of Düsseldorf is titled Oberbürgermeister (sometimes translated as Lord Mayor).

Düsseldorf City Hall
Coat of arms of Düsseldorf

List
  • 1815–1820: Dr. Engelbert Schramm
  • 1820–1822: Lambert Josten
  • 1822–1824: Joseph Molitor
  • 1824: Leopold Custodis
  • 1824–1828: Friedrich Adolf Klüber
  • 1828–1833: Philipp Schöller
  • 1833–1848: Joseph von Fuchsius
  • 1848–1849: Wilhelm Dietze
  • 1849: Ludwig Viktor Graf von Villers
  • 1849–1876: Ludwig Hammers
  • 1876–1886: Friedrich Wilhelm Becker
  • 1886–1899: Ernst Heinrich Lindemann[Notes 1]
  • 1899–1910: Wilhelm Marx
  • 1911–1919: Dr. Adalbert Oehler
  • 1919–1924: Dr. Emil Köttgen
  • 1924–1933: Dr. Dr. h.c. Robert Lehr (DNVP)
  • 1933–1937: Dr. Hans Wagenführ
  • 1937: Otto Liederley
  • 1937–1939: Dr. Dr. Helmut Otto
  • 1939–1945: Dr. Karl Haidn
  • 1945: Werner Keyßner
  • 1945: Dr. Wilhelm Fullenbach
  • 1945–1946: Walter Kolb (SPD)
  • 1946–1947: Karl Arnold (CDU)
  • 1947–1959: Josef Gockeln (CDU)
  • 1956–1959: Georg Glock
  • 1960–1961: Willi Becker
  • 1961: Dr. h.c. Fritz Vomfelde
  • 1961–1964: Peter Müller (CDU)
  • 1964–1974: Willi Becker
  • 1974–1979: Klaus Bungert (SPD)
  • 1979–1984: Josef Kürten (CDU)
  • 1984–1994: Klaus Bungert (SPD)
  • 1994–1999: Marie-Luise Smeets (SPD)
  • 1999–2008: Joachim Erwin (CDU)
  • 2008–2014: Dirk Elbers (CDU)
  • 2014–2020: Thomas Geisel (SPD)[1]
  • 2020–present: Stephan Keller (CDU)[2]

Notes
  1. Ernst Lindemann was the grandfather of Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann, the battleship Bismarck commander.
  1. "Mayors: high-speed train must connect Eindhoven & Düsseldorf". NL Times. 13 January 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  2. "Dr. Stephan Keller Oberbürgermeister der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf". Düsseldorf.de (in German). 1 November 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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