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For administration of Danzig district, see Administration of West Prussia before 1919.

For administration after 1945, see Administrations of Gdańsk since 1945.

Lord Mayors

Lord Mayors/Oberbürgermeister before 1862

1342-1347 – Dettloff von der Osten
1342-1354 – Henrich Burmeister der Aeltere
1346-1355 – Steffen von der Osten
1354-1374 – Hillebrand Müntzer
1356-1360 – Johan von Stein
1359-1372 – Johann Wallrabe der Aeltere
1361-1362 – Casper Bock
1362-1390 – Gottschalck Naase
1368-1387 – Paul Jann
1372-1385 – Johann Wallrabe der Jüngere
1379-1386 – Johann Wackaw
1381-1384 – Nicklaus Gottsknecht
1384-1392 – Herman Rolberg
1392-1405 – Reinhold Hittfeld
1395-1399 – Lubbert Haacke
1399-1404 – Peter Fürstenau
1402-1418 – Tideman Huxer
1405-1411 – Konrad Leczkow (Conrad Letzkau)
1407-1410 – Peter Vorraht
1408-1411 – Arend Hecht
1411-1417 – Herman Hittfeld
1412-1413 – Albrecht Dödorff
1413-1430 – Gert von der Becke
1415-1416 – Steffen Plötzker
(before 1436) – Nicklaus Rogge
1419-1433 – Johann Beisener
1430-1441 – Peter Holste
1433-1446 – Lucas Meckelfeld
1433-1443 – Heinrich Vorraht
1436-1449 – Meinert Cölmer
1442-1456 – Martin Cremon
1445-1456 – Albrecht Hexer
1447-1480 – Reinhold Niederhoff
1452-1462 – Herman Stargardt
1454-1461 – Wilhelm Jordan
1457-1461 – Jacob Falcke
1461-1475 – Johann von Scheren
1462-1478 – Johann von Walde
1462-1478 – Johann Veere
1470-1438 – Philipp Bischoff
1477-1483 – Johann Angermünde
1479-1501 – Johann Ferber
1483-1485 – Marten Bock
1484-1502 – George Buck
1484-1490 – Johann Schewecke
1489-1505 – Henrich Falcke
1492-1501 – Henrich von Süchten
1502-1513 – George Mand
1503-1512 – Johann Schewecke der Jüngere
1504-1513 – Matthias Zimmerman
1506-1507 – Antoni Backelman
1510-1526 – Eberhard Ferber
1513-1525 – Greger Brand
1514-1524 – Henrich Wiese
1517-1535 – Philipp Bischoff
1524-1529 – Matthias Lange
1525-1538 – Cordt von Süchten
1526-1535 – Edward Niederhoff
1526-1554 – Johann von Werden
1531-1547 – George Schewecke
1536-1539 – Peter Behme
1538-1549 – Barthell Brand
1540-1560 – Tiedemann Giese
1548-1577 – Johann Brandes
1550-1554 – Johann Stutte
1555-1588 – Constantin Feber
1557-1578 – Johann Proite
1558-1576 – George Cleefeld
1577-1585 – Reinhold Möllner
1578-1592 – George Rosenberg
1581-1619 – Johann von der Linde
1586-1602 – Daniel Zierenberg
1589-1605 – Constantin Giese
1592-1612 – Gerhard Brandes
1603-1611 – Johann Thorbecke
1605-1614 – Bartłomiej Schachmann (Barthell Schachtman)
1612-1616 – Andreas Borkman
1612-1625 – Johann Speymann
1615-1617 – Barthell Brandt
1617-1629 – Arnold von Holten
1618-1636 – Eggert von Kempen
1619-1635 – Valentin von Bodeck
1626-1620 – Ernst Kroll
1630-1642 – Johann Zierenberg
1630-1631 – Adrian von der Linde
1632-1654 – Constantin Ferber
1636-1644 – Hanss Rogge
1637-1639 – Johans Ernst Schröder
1640-1649 – Nicklas Pahl
1643-1644 – Elert von Bobart
1645-1646 – Daniel Falcke
1645-1682 – Adrian von der Linde
1647-1654 – Henrich Freder
1650-1665 – Friederich Ehler
1655-1663 – Nathanaël Schmieden
1655-1673 – George von Bömelen
1664-1675 – Nicklas von Bodeck
1666-1685 – Gabriel Krumhausen
1677-1701 – Christian Schröder
1677-1686 – Daniel Proite
1683-1700 – Barbiel Schuhman
1686-1704 – Constantin Ferber
1687-1691 – Constantin Ferber
1692-1707 – Johann Ernst Schmieden
1700-1707 – Constantin Ferber
1702-1707 – Reinhold
1704-1722 – Andreas Borkman
1707-1716 – Friedrich Gottlieb Engelcke
1708-1712 – Joachim Hoyge
1708-1740 – Gabriel von Bömeln
1712-1721 – Ernst von der Linde
1716-1710 – Carl Ernst Bauer
1720-1745 – Johann Gottfried von Disseldorff
1722-1720 – Salomon Gabriel Schumann
1723-1734 – Gottfried Bentzmann
1730-1739 – Carl Groddeck
1735-1757 – Johann Wahl
1740-1753 – Carl Gottlieb Ehler
1741-1746 – Joachim Jacob Schwacher
1746-1748 – Johann Carl Schwartzwald
1746-1755 – Nathanael Gottfried Ferber
1750-1753 – Fridrich Krüger
1754 – Christian Gabriel von Schröder
1754 – Michael Schmidt
1756 – Johann Kenner
? – Johann Ernst von der Linde
1762-1776 – Gottlieb G. Weickhmann
1763-1767 – Daniel Gralath
1777 – Schwarz
1787 – Johann Bentzmann
1790 – Zernecke
1793 – Eduard Friedrich von Conradi
1794 – von Lindenow
1807-1808 – Carl Friedrich von Gralath
1808-1810 – Gottlieb Hufeland
1810-1814 – Johann Willhelm Wernsdorff
1814-1849 – Joachim Heinrich von Weickhmann
1850-1862 – Carl August von Groddeck

Lord Mayors/Oberbürgermeister before 1920

1862-1890 - Leopold von Winter
1891-1896 - Karl Adolf von Baumbach
1896-1903 - Clemens G.ErnstDelbruck
1903-1910 - Heinrich Otto Ehlers
1910-1918 - Heinrich Scholtz
1919-1920 - Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Sahm

Chief Executive in 1920

Danziger Chief Executive Chairman of the Council of State

1920 - Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Sahm

Free City of Danzig (Freie Stadt Danzig)

In 1920 Danzig became a Free and Sovereign City under the Protection of the League of Nations.

Heads of State

Presidents of the Senate / Senatspräsidenten (also in charge of foreign affairs):

1920-1931 - Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Sahm
1931-1933 - Ernst Ziehm 1867 - 1962
1933-1934 - Hermann Rauschning 1887 - 1982
1934-1939 - Arthur Greiser 1897 - 1946

State President / Staatspräsident (3):

1939-1945 - Albert Förster 1902 - 1952

(3) The Senate, still headed by Greiser, continued to function as an executive body. _____________________________________________________________________________

Senators

Senators of Home Affairs / Senatoren für Inneres

1920-1924 - Wilhelm Schümmer
1924-1928 - Hubert Schwartz 1883 - 1966
1928-1929 - Friedrich Grünhagen 1876 - 1929
1929-1931 - Franz Arczynski*
1931-1933 - G. Hinz
1933-1939 - Artur Greiser

Senators of Justice / Senatoren für Justiz

1920-1925 - Albert Heinrich Frank
1925-1928 - Hubert Schwartz
1928-1931 - A. Evert
1931-1933 - Fritz Dumont
1933-1939 - Willibald Wiercinski-Keiser (since 1934 Wiers-Kaiser)

Senators of Finances / Senatoren für Finanzen

1921-1928 - Ernst Volkmann
1928-1931 - Bernhard Kamnitzer
1931-1939 - Julius Hoppenrath

Allied Representatives

High Commissioner

1919-1920 - Sir Reginald Thomas Tower (United Kingdom) 1860 - 1939

Representatives of the League of Nations

High Commissioners

The High Commissioners appointed by the League of Nations did not intervene in the internal affairs of the Free City. Their main task was to settle problems which could arise between Poland and the Free City.

1920 Col. Edward Lisle Strutt* (UK) 1874 - 1948
1920-1921 - Bernardo Attolico (Italy) 1880 - 1942
1921-1923 - Gen. Sir Richard Cyril Byrne Haking (UK) 1862 - 1945
1923-1925 - Mervyn Sorley McDonnell (UK) 1880 - 1949
1925-1929 - Joost Adriaan van Hamel (Neth.) 1880 - 1964
1929-1932 - Manfredi, Conte di Gravina dei Principi di Ramacca (Italy) 1883 - 1932
1932-1934 - Helmer Rostgaard GommesenRosting (Denmark) 1893 - 1945
1934-1936 - Seán Lester (Irish Free State) 1888 - 1959
1936-1937 - none
1937-1939 - Carl Jakob Burckhardt (Switz.) 1891 - 1974

Presidents of the Harbor Council

The Harbor Council was in charge of the harbor and all waterways of Danzig. It comprised 10 members (5 Danziger and 5 Poles) and was presided by a Swiss citizen (Nederbragt was an exception. He was appointed as he had successfully resolve an important traffic problem in Danzig the year before he was chosen.

1921-1925 - James de Reynier (Switz.)
1925-1931 - Hugens de Loes (Switz.)
1931-1934 - Carl Josef Benziger (Switz.)
1934-1939 - Johan A. Nederbragt (Neth.)

General Commissioners of the Polish Republic

Based on the Treaty of Versailles and on the Conventions of Paris and Warwaw (1919 - 1921), Poland received however some economic privileges safeguarding its free access to the Baltic Sea:

Polish civilian ships had free entry to the harbor,
Poland took over the administration of the Danziger railways, which were now administered by the Direction of the PKP Polish State Railways at Torun
Poland had the right to maintain a separate Post Office (since 1925)
Danzig and Poland were united in a customs union

The same treaties also transferred to Poland all diplomatic and consular representations of Danzig, which did however retain the right to conclude treaties, join international organizations, etc.

General Commissioners of the Polish Republic (4) Komisarze Generalni Rzeczpospoltej Polskiej

Polish delegates

1919-1920 - Mieczyslaw Jalowiecki

Polish representatives

The Polish representatives were responsible for the liaison between the Senate and the Polish government.

1920-1921 - Maciej Biesiadecki
1921-1924 - Leon Pluciński
1924-1932 - Henryk Leon Strasburger
1932-1936 - Kazimierz Papée
1936-1939 - Marian Chodacki

(2)

Later (in 1924, with effect from 1926) the League of Nations also allowed Poland to establish a munition depot on the Westerplatte peninsula and to maintain a small garrison (ca 90 men)

Polish Commanders of Westerplatte

1926-1926 - Com. Ignacy Szaniawski
1926-1927 - Com. Borys Mohuczy
1927-1931 - Com. Józef Czechowicz
1931-1934 - Capt. Jan Litynski
1934-1938 - Maj. Stefan Fabiszewski (1896-1974)
1938-1939 - Maj. Henryk Sucharski (1898-1946), captured by German Army

Other Officials

German Danzig 1939-1945

In 1939 the Free City of Danzig was annexed to the German Reich. After a brief transitional period, its territory became part of the restored Regierungsbezirk Danzig in the Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreussen.