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	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	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