List of mayors of Berlin

The following list of mayors of Berlin shows all the mayors (German: Oberbürgermeister, Regierender Bürgermeister) of Berlin, Germany since 1809:

1809–1948

Oberbürgermeister (generally "Lord Mayor")

• Leopold von Gerlach (1809–1813)
• Johann Büsching (1814–1832)
• Friedrich von Bärensprung (1832–1834)
• Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick (1834–1848)
• Franz Christian Naunyn (1848–1851)
• Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick (1851–1862)
• Karl Theodor Seydel (1863–1872)
• Arthur Hobrecht (1872–1878)
• Max von Forckenbeck (1878–1892)
• Robert Zelle (1892–1898)
• Martin Kirschner (1899–1912)
• Adolph Wermuth (1912–1920)
• Gustav Böß (1921–1929)
• Arthur Scholz (1929–1931)
• Heinrich Sahm (1931–1935)
• Oskar Maretzky (1935–1937)
• Julius Lippert (1937–1940)
• Ludwig Steeg (1940–1945)
• Arthur Werner (1945–1946)
• Otto Ostrowski (1946–1947)
• Louise Schroeder (1947–1948)
• Ferdinand Friedensburg (1948)

1948–1991 (East Berlin)

Mayors (German: Oberbürgermeister) of East Berlin, capital in the socialist state of German Democratic Republic.

• Friedrich Ebert, Jr. (1948–1967)
• Herbert Fechner (1967–1974)
• Erhard Krack (1974–1990)
• Dr. Ingrid Pankraz (1990)
• Dr. Christian Hartenauer (1990)
• Tino Schwierzina (1990–1991)
• Thomas Krüger (1991) provisional

The Mayor of Berlin (Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin) was democratically elected in January 1991.

1948–1991 (West Berlin)

Governing Mayors (German: Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin) of West Berlin (1949–90), and Berlin, capital of Germany since 1990.

Name	Picture	Term	Party
Ernst Reuter		1948–1953	SPD
Walther Schreiber		1953–1955	CDU
Otto Suhr		1955–1957	SPD
Willy Brandt		1957–1966	SPD
Heinrich Albertz		1966–1967	SPD
Klaus Schütz		1967–1977	SPD
Dietrich Stobbe		1977–1981	SPD
Hans-Jochen Vogel		1981	SPD
Richard von Weizsäcker		1981–1984	CDU
Eberhard Diepgen		1984–1989	CDU
Walter Momper		1989–1990	SPD

After reunification

Name	Picture	Term	Party
Walter Momper		1990–1991	SPD
Eberhard Diepgen		1991–2001	CDU
Klaus Wowereit		2001–2014	SPD
Michael Müller		2014–2021	SPD
Franziska Giffey		2021-	SPD