The following is the list of the Mayors of the Royal City of Kraków, Poland; heads of local municipal government (Polish: Prezydent Krakowa) according to extant records. Most have been elected by inhabitants, with notable exceptions, such as mayors mandated by foreign authorities during various types of militarised control of the city such as Partitions or the Nazi German occupation of Poland.
| Mayor of the Royal City of Kraków | |
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| Inaugural holder | Franciszek Wielopolski |
| Formation | 14 April 1792 |
| Website | krakow.pl |
List of mayors
edit| Name of Mayor (President) in Office | From | Until |
|---|---|---|
| Franciszek Wielopolski | 14 April 1792 | 11 September 1792 |
| Maciej Bajer | 12 September 1792 | 5 March 1794 |
| Filip Nereusz Lichocki | 6 March 1794 | 23 April 1794 |
| Michał Wohlman | 24 April 1794 | 14 June 1794 |
| Maciej Bajer | 15 June 1794 | 31 October 1798 |
| Filip Nereusz Lichocki | 1 November 1798 | 31 August 1802 |
| Dominik Drdatzki | 1 September 1802 | 1805 |
| Józef Gollmayer | 1805 | 1810 |
| Stanisław Kostka Zarzecki | 1 December 1810 | 2 November 1815 |
| Józef Matecki | 1 January 1816 | 11 April 1816 |
| Feliks Grodzicki | 11 April 1816 | 31 July 1816 |
| Józef Walenty Krzyżanowski | 7 October 1848 | 19 April 1849 |
| Ignacy Paprocki | 19 April 1849 | 27 June 1853 |
| Fryderyk Tobiaszek | 1 July 1853 | 28 August 1856 |
| Andrzej Seidler-Wiślański | 26 October 1856 | 12 September 1866 |
| Józef Dietl | 13 September 1866 | 18 June 1874 |
| Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz | 2 July 1874 | 7 February 1881 |
| Ferdynand Weigel | 17 February 1881 | 17 September 1884 |
| Feliks Szlachtowski | 17 September 1884 | 10 May 1893 |
| Józef Friedlein | 24 May 1893 | 7 July 1904 |
| Juliusz Leo | 11 July 1904 | 21 February 1918 |
| Jan Kanty Federowicz | 6 March 1918 | 13 July 1924 |
| Zdzisław Wawrausch | 21 July 1924 | 18 July 1925 |
| Witold Ostrowski | 21 July 1925 | 4 June 1926 |
| Karol Rolle | 19 June 1926 | 13 July 1931 |
| Władysław Belina-Prażmowski | 16 July 1931 | 11 February 1933 |
| Mieczysław Kaplicki | 16 February 1933 | 1 February 1939 |
| Bolesław Czuchajowski | 21 April 1939 | 3 September 1939 |
| Stanisław Klimecki | 3 September 1939 | 20 September 1939 |
| Ernst Zörner[1] | 20 September 1939 | 22 February 1940 |
| Karl Schmid (Nazi)[1] | 23 February 1940 | March 1941 |
| Rudolf Pavlu[1] | April 1941 | April 1943 |
| Josef Krämer (Nazi)[1] | April 1943 | 18 January 1945 |
| Aleksander Żaruk-Michalski | 21 January 1945 | 2 February 1945 |
| Alfred Fiderkiewicz | 5 February 1945 | 11 June 1945 |
| Stefan Wolas | 14 June 1945 | 6 October 1947 |
| Henryk Dobrowolski | 6 October 1947 | 6 June 1950 |
| Marcin Waligóra | 6 June 1950 | 7 April 1954 |
| Tadeusz Mrugacz | 7 April 1954 | 24 October 1957 |
| Wiktor Boniecki | 24 October 1957 | 6 November 1959 |
| Zbigniew Skolicki | 6 November 1959 | 5 June 1969 |
| Jerzy Pękala | 6 June 1969 | 26 April 1978 |
| Edward Barszcz | 27 April 1978 | 20 June 1980 |
| Józef Gajewicz | 26 September 1980 | 8 December 1982 |
| Tadeusz Salwa | 9 December 1982 | 13 January 1990 |
| Jerzy Rościszewski | 9 February 1990 | 20 June 1990 |
| Jacek Woźniakowski | 20 June 1990 | 11 January 1991 |
| Krzysztof Bachmiński | 7 February 1991 | 30 September 1992 |
| Józef Lassota | 9 October 1992 | 4 November 1998 |
| Andrzej Gołaś | 4 November 1998 | 19 November 2002 |
| Jacek Majchrowski | 19 November 2002 | 7 May 2024 |
| Aleksander Miszalski | 7 May 2024 | present |
See also
editNotes and references
edit- ^ a b c d "Appointed by Nazi Germany during the occupation of Kraków. Kalendarium historii Krakowa w oparciu o Wikipedię. Polski Serwis Naukowy.
- Prezydenci miasta Krakowa, bądź osoby pełniące tę funkcję (mirror). Szkolnictwo.pl, 2008
Bibliography
edit- Professor Jan Marian Małecki (b. 1926), Dzieje Krakowa (originally in several volumes). Wyd. Kraków, 1984.