The  is the First Mayor of Hamburg, Germany. He is the president of the Senate (government) of Hamburg. The Erster Bürgermeister is Hamburg's Minister President.

The constitution of 28 September 1860 says that the state is to be governed by the ten-member Senate headed by the First Mayor as the President of the Senate. His deputy is the Second Mayor. Until 1997 the First Mayor was elected by the Senate. Now he is elected by the Bürgerschaft (the city's parliament) and the Erster Bürgermeister has appointed and dismissed other Senators.

List of mayors 
 Friedrich Sieveking: 1861-1862
 Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller: 1863-1864
 Friedrich Sieveking: 1865
 Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller: 1866-1867
 Friedrich Sieveking: 1868
 Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer: 1869
 Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller: 1870
 Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer: 1871-1872
 Nicolaus Ferdinand Haller: 1873
 Hermann Goßler: 1874
 Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer: 1875
 Carl Friedrich Petersen: 1876-1877
 Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer: 1878
 Hermann Anthony Cornelius Weber:1879
 Carl Friedrich Petersen: 1880
 Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer: 1881
 Hermann Anthony Cornelius Weber: 1882
 Carl Friedrich Petersen: 1883
 Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer: 1884
 Hermann Anthony Cornelius Weber: 1885
 Carl Friedrich Petersen: 1886
 Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer: 1887
 Johannes Georg Andreas Versmann: 14 March 1887 - 1888
 Carl Friedrich Petersen: 1889
 Johann Georg Mönckeberg: 1890
 Johannes Georg Andreas Versmann: 1891
 Carl Friedrich Petersen: 1892
 Johann Georg Mönckeberg: 1893
 Johannes Georg Andreas Versmann: 1894
 Johannes Christian Eugen Lehmann: 1895
 Johann Georg Mönckeberg: 1896
 Johannes Georg Andreas Versmann: 1897
 Johannes Christian Eugen Lehmann: 1898
 Johann Georg Mönckeberg: 1899
 Johannes Christian Eugen Lehmann: 1 January 1900 - 15 September 1900
 Gerhard Hachmann: 19 November 1900 - 1901
 Johann Georg Mönckeberg: 1902
 Johann Heinrich Burchard: 1903
 Gerhard Hachmann: until 11 July 1904
 Johann Georg Mönckeberg: 11 July 1904 - 1905
 Johann Heinrich Burchard: 1906
 Johann Otto Stammann: 1907
 Johann Georg Mönckeberg: until 27 March 1908
 Johann Heinrich Burchard: 3 April 1908 - 1909
 Max Predöhl: 1910 - 1911
 Johann Heinrich Burchard: 1912
 Carl August Schröder: 13 September 1912 - 1913
 Max Predöhl: 1914
 Werner von Melle: 1915
 Carl August Schröder: 1916
 Max Predöhl: 1917
 Werner von Melle: 1918 - 1919

Weimar Republic 
 Werner von Melle: 31 March 1919 - 31 December 1919
 Gustav Sthamer: 1 January 1920- 1 February 1920
 Arnold Diestel, DDP: 2 February 1920 - 31 December 1923
 Carl Petersen, DDP: 1 January 1924 - 31 December 1929
 Rudolf Ross, SPD: 1 January 1930 - 31 December 1931
 Carl Petersen, DDP: 1 January 1932 - 7 March 1933

Third Reich 
 Carl Vincent Krogmann, NSDAP: 8 March 1933 - 3 May 1945 (The real head of the government was the Reichsstatthalter (regional governor) Karl Kaufmann)

Appointed by the British occupation forces 
 Rudolf Hieronymus Petersen, CDU: 15 May 1945 - 22 November 1946

Democratically elected after World War II 
 Max Brauer, SPD: 22 November 1946 - 2 December 1953
 Kurt Sieveking, CDU: 2 December 1953 - 4 December 1957
 Max Brauer, SPD: 4 December 1957 - 31 December 1960
 Paul Nevermann, SPD: 1 January 1961 - 9 June 1965
 Herbert Weichmann, SPD: 9 June 1965 - 9 June 1971
 Peter Schulz, SPD: 9 June 1971 - 4 November 1974
 Hans-Ulrich Klose, SPD: 12 November 1974 - 22 May 1981
 Klaus von Dohnanyi, SPD: 24 June 1981 - 8 June 1988
 Henning Voscherau, SPD: 8 June 1988 - 8 October 1997
 Ortwin Runde, SPD: 12 November 1997 - 31 October 2001
 Ole von Beust, CDU: 31 October 2001 - 25 August 2010
 Christoph Ahlhaus, CDU: since 25 August 2010 - 7 March 2011
 Olaf Scholz, SDP: 7 March 2011 - incumbent

Other websites 

 All mayors of Hamburg since 1293

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