page_title: List of mayors of Cologne
section_title: Mayors since 1815
hierarchical_section_title: List of mayors of Cologne / Mayors since 1815
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Köln, historisches Rathaus
context_page_description: This is a list of mayors of Cologne. It includes the Lord Mayors of Cologne since 1815 as well as the city managers from 1946 to 1999.
context_section_description: 1815–1819: Karl Joseph Freiherr von Mylius
  1819–1823: von Monschaw
  1823–1848: Johann Adolf Steinberger
  1848–1851: Friedrich Wilhelm Gräff
  1851–1863: Hermann Joseph Stupp
  1863–1875: Alexander Bachem
  1875–1885: Dr. Hermann Heinrich Becker, Fortschrittspartei
  1886–1907: Friedrich Wilhelm Bernard von Becker
  1907–1917: Ludwig Theodor Ferdinand Max Wallraf
  1917–1933: Dr. Konrad Adenauer, Deutsche Zentrumspartei
  1933–1936: Dr. Günter Riesen
  1936–1940: Dr. Karl Georg Schmidt
  1940–1944: Dr. Peter Winkelnkemper
  1944–1945: Robert Brandes
  1945: Dr. Konrad Adenauer CDU
  1945: Dr. Willi Suth CDU
  1945–1948: Dr. Hermann Pünder CDU
  1948: Dr. Ernst Schwering CDU
  1948–1949: Robert Görlinger SPD
  1949–1950: Dr. Ernst Schwering CDU
  1950–1951: Robert Görlinger SPD
  1951–1956: Dr. Ernst Schwering CDU
  1956–1973: Theo Burauen SPD
  1973–1980: John van Nes Ziegler SPD
  1980–1999: Norbert Burger SPD
  1999–2000: Harry Blum CDU
  2000–2009: Fritz Schramma CDU
  2009–2015: Jürgen Roters SPD
  Since 2015: Henriette Reker  Independent
caption: Cologne City Hall
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