List of mayors of Chernivtsi

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

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.

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