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List of mayors of Bremen

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The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, which is one of the states of Germany, is governed by the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. The Senate is chaired by the president of the Senate, who is the head of government of the city-state. The president of the Senate and another member of the senate both hold the title mayor (Bürgermeister).

List

Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (1945–present)

;President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen Political party:

PortraitName
(Born–Died)Term of officePolitical partyTook officeLeft officeDaysPre-constitutional Bremen (1945–1949)Modern Bremen (1949–present)
American occupation zone in Allied-occupied Germany
Independent politician}};"1Erich Vagts
(1896–1980)2 May 194531 July 1945Independent
Social Democratic Party of Germany}}; color:white;"2[[File:Bgm Kaisen k.jpg80px]]Wilhelm Kaisen
(1887–1979)31 July 194523 May 1949Social Democratic Party
City-state of the Federal Republic of Germany
Social Democratic Party of Germany}}; color:white;"(2)[[File:Bgm Kaisen k.jpg80px]]Wilhelm Kaisen
(1887–1979)23 May 194920 July 1965Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Germany}}; color:white;"3[[File:Bgm Dehnkamp.jpg80px]]Willy Dehnkamp
(1903–1985)20 July 196528 November 1967Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Germany}}; color:white;"4[[File:Bgm Koschnick.jpg80px]]Hans Koschnick
(1929–2016)28 November 196718 September 1985Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Germany}}; color:white;"5[[File:Bgm Wedemeier k.jpg80px]]Klaus Wedemeier
(born 1944)18 September 19854 July 1995Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Germany}}; color:white;"6[[File:HenningScherf.jpg80px]]Henning Scherf
(born 1938)4 July 19958 November 2005
(resigned)Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Germany}}; color:white;"7[[File:Portrait Buergermeister Boehrnsen.jpg80px]]Jens Böhrnsen
(born 1949)8 November 200517 July 2015Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Germany}}; color:white;"8[[File:2019-05-26 Wahlabend Bremen by Sandro Halank–063.jpg80px]]Carsten Sieling
(born 1959)17 July 201515 August 2019Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party of Germany}}; color:white;"9[[File:Bovenschulte, Andreas NEU-1.jpg80px]]Andreas Bovenschulte
(born 1965)15 August 2019IncumbentSocial Democratic Party

; Mayor, deputy of the president of the Senate

Name
(Born–Died)Took officeLeft officeParty
Theodor Spitta
(1873–1969)6 June 194528 December 1955Free Democratic Party
Jules Eberhard Noltenius
(1908–1976)28 December 195521 December 1959Christian Democratic Union
Adolf Ehlers
(1898–1978)21 December 195926 November 1963Social Democratic Party
Willy Dehnkamp
(1903–1985)26 November 196319 July 1965Social Democratic Party
Hans Koschnick
(1929–2016)19 July 196522 November 1967Social Democratic Party
Annemarie Mevissen
(1914–2006)22 November 19673 November 1975Social Democratic Party
Walter Franke
(1926–2015)3 November 19757 November 1979Social Democratic Party
Moritz Thape
(1920–2019)7 November 197917 September 1985Social Democratic Party
Henning Scherf
(born 1938)17 September 198511 December 1991Social Democratic Party
Claus Jäger
(born 1943)11 December 19912 November 1993Free Democratic Party
Ralf Fücks
(born 1951)2 November 199323 February 1995Alliance 90/The Greens
Ulrich Nölle
(born 1940)4 July 199516 September 1997Christian Democratic Union
Hartmut Perschau
(1942–2022)16 September 199713 July 2004Christian Democratic Union
Peter Gloystein
(born 1945)8 September 200412 May 2005Christian Democratic Union
Thomas Röwekamp
(born 1966)25 May 200529 June 2007Christian Democratic Union
Karoline Linnert
(born 1958)29 June 200715 August 2019Alliance 90/The Greens
Maike Schaefer
(born 1971)15 August 20195 July 2023Alliance 90/The Greens
Björn Fecker
(born 1977)5 July 2023IncumbentAlliance 90/The Greens

Notes

References

  1. The Senate of the state of Bremen is elected by the [[Parliament of Bremen]] (''Bürgerschaft''), the legislature elected by citizens in the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven. However, [[Bremerhaven]] also has a separate municipal assembly and a separate administration headed by a distinct mayor.
  2. Vagts was member of the national conservative [[German National People's Party. DNVP]] until 1933, when this party was dissolved.
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