The following is a list of mayors of the city of Chernivtsi, Ukraine. It includes positions equivalent to mayor, such as chairperson of the city council executive committee.

Crest of the city of Czernowitz 1908
City Hall of Czernowitz about 1900

Austrian period edit

 
City Hall of Czernowitz today

Prehistory edit

In the period from 1780 to 1832 the town was ruled by so-called municipal judges. Usually they led the city only between one and two years. A longer tenure had only Joseph Hampel (1796–1800 and 1802–1811), Alexander Beldowicz (1811–1817) and the last city judge, Andreas Klug (1817–1832).

1832: Regulation of local government, creating a magistrate [1] edit

  • Franz Lihotzky (1832–1848)
  • Adalbert Suchanek (1848–1854)
  • Josef Ortynski (1854–1858)
  • Josef Lepszy (1859–1861)
  • Julius Hubrich (1861–1864)

1864: Czernowitz becomes a town with its own statute edit

Since 1918 edit

Period of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic edit

Romanian period edit

  • Gheorghe Șandru, 1918-1919
  • Teofil Siminovici, 1919-1920
  • Gheorghe Șandru, 1920-1922
  • Nicu Flondor, 1922-1926
  • Barbu Grigorovici, 1926
  • Radu Sbiera, 1926-1927
  • Romulus Cândea, 1927-1929
  • Dimitrie Marmeluc, 1933-1938
  • Nicu Flondor, 1938-1940

Soviet period edit

  • Alexey Ivanovich Nikitin, 1940-1941
  • Anton Ivanovich Koshovyi, 1944-1945
  • Alexander Nikiforovich Gritsay, 1945-1948
  • Ivan Fedorovych Kozachuk [uk], 1948-1949
  • Polikarp Arkhipovich Kotko, 1949-1950
  • Viktor Ivanovich Gutafel, 1950-1954
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Mikhailovsky, 1954-1959
  • Petro Petrovych Donchenko, 1959-1964
  • Vasil Petrovich Tolmach, 1964-1972
  • Volodymyr Fedorovych Dotsiuk [uk], 1972-1985
  • Pavlo Mykhailovych Kaspruk [uk], 1985-1991
  • Georgy Dmitrovich Grodetsky, 1991

Modernity edit

Gallery edit

Mayors during Austrian period
Ukrainian mayors of Chernivtsi

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ "Bürgermeister von Czernowitz". Archived from the original on 2013-05-28. Retrieved 2013-06-10.
  2. ^ “Bukowinaer Post“ vom Donnerstag, 6. November 1913