The following is the list of the Mayors of the Royal Capital City of Kraków, Poland; heads of local municipal government () according to extant records. Most have been elected by inhabitants, with notable exceptions, such as mayors mandated by foreign authorities during various types of militarised control of the city such as Partitions or the Nazi German occupation of Poland.

List of mayors +For names in alphabetical order use table sort buttonsName of Mayor (President) in OfficeFromUntil Franciszek Wielopolski 14 April 1792 11 September 1792 Maciej Bajer 12 September 1792 5 March 1794 Filip Nereusz Lichocki 6 March 1794 23 April 1794 Michał Wohlman 24 April 1794 14 June 1794 Maciej Bajer 15 June 1794 31 October 1798 Filip Nereusz Lichocki 1 November 1798 31 August 1802 Dominik Drdatzki 1 September 1802 1805 Józef Gollmayer 1805 1810 Stanisław Kostka Zarzecki 1 December 1810 2 November 1815 Józef Matecki 1 January 1816 11 April 1816 Feliks Grodzicki 11 April 1816 31 July 1816 Józef Walenty Krzyżanowski 7 October 1848 19 April 1849 Ignacy Paprocki 19 April 1849 27 June 1853 Fryderyk Tobiaszek 1 July 1853 28 August 1856 Andrzej Seidler-Wiślański 26 October 1856 12 September 1866 Józef Dietl 13 September 1866 18 June 1874 Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz 2 July 1874 7 February 1881 Ferdynand Weigel 17 February 1881 17 September 1884 Feliks Szlachtowski 17 September 1884 10 May 1893 Józef Friedlein 24 May 1893 7 July 1904 Juliusz Leo 11 July 1904 21 February 1918 Jan Kanty Federowicz 6 March 1918 13 July 1924 Zdzisław Wawrausch 21 July 1924 18 July 1925 Witold Ostrowski 21 July 1925 4 June 1926 Karol Rolle 19 June 1926 13 July 1931 Władysław Belina-Prażmowski 16 July 1931 11 February 1933 Mieczysław Kaplicki 16 February 1933 1 February 1939 Bolesław Czuchajowski 21 April 1939 3 September 1939 Stanisław Klimecki 3 September 1939 20 September 1939 Ernst Zörner"Appointed by Nazi Germany during the occupation of Kraków. Kalendarium historii Krakowa w oparciu o Wikipedię. Polski Serwis Naukowy. 20 September 1939 22 February 1940 Karl Schmid (Nazi) 23 February 1940 March 1941 Rudolf Pavlu April 1941 April 1943 Josef Krämer (Nazi) April 1943 18 January 1945 Aleksander Żaruk-Michalski 21 January 1945 2 February 1945 Alfred Fiderkiewicz 5 February 1945 11 June 1945 Stefan Wolas 14 June 1945 6 October 1947 Henryk Dobrowolski 6 October 1947 6 June 1950 Marcin Waligóra 6 June 1950 7 April 1954 Tadeusz Mrugacz 7 April 1954 24 October 1957 Wiktor Boniecki 24 October 1957 6 November 1959 Zbigniew Skolicki 6 November 1959 5 June 1969 Jerzy Pękala 6 June 1969 26 April 1978 Edward Barszcz 27 April 1978 20 June 1980 Józef Gajewicz 26 September 1980 8 December 1982 Tadeusz Salwa 9 December 1982 13 January 1990 Jerzy Rościszewski 9 February 1990 20 June 1990 Jacek Woźniakowski 20 June 1990 11 January 1991 Krzysztof Bachmiński 7 February 1991 30 September 1992 Józef Lassota 9 October 1992 4 November 1998 Andrzej Gołaś 4 November 1998 19 November 2002 Jacek Majchrowski 19 November 2002 7 May 2024 Aleksander Miszalski 7 May 2024 24 May 2026Krakow voters overwhelmingly back ousting mayor and council, exit poll shows. Telewizja Polska S.A. https://tvpworld.com/93433594/krakow-mayor-miszalski-ousted-in-referendum-exit-poll-show Direct Government Rule (Enforced by Commissioner Stanisław Kracik) 24 May 2026 https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/donald-tusk-zdecydowal-w-sprawie-komisarza-w-krakowie/dvlgj3f Present

See also Timeline of Kraków

Notes and references

Prezydenci miasta Krakowa, bądź osoby pełniące tę funkcję (mirror). Szkolnictwo.pl, 2008

Bibliography Professor Jan Marian Małecki (b. 1926), Dzieje Krakowa (originally in several volumes). Wyd. Kraków, 1984.