Lech Kaczyński, acting President of Warsaw

President of Warsaw is the head of the capital of Poland and counterpart of a mayor in smaller Polish and foreign cities.

Following the Warsaw Act (Ustawa warszawska) of October 27, 2002 President of Warsaw carries over most of the executive duties in the city. His prerogative is, among others, governing the city-owned property that still constitutes a major part of the city. Acting president of Warsaw is Lech Kaczyński.

List of Presidents

Until 1795

• Ignacy Zakrzewski-Wyssogota (16 April 1792 – 25 August 1792)
• Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (30 August 1792 – 20 March 1793)
• Andrzej Rafałowicz (21 March 1793 – 17 April 1794)
• Ignacy Zakrzewski-Wyssogota (17 April 1794 – 3 November 1794).
• Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (20 November 1794 – 25 July 1796).

Prussian occupation (1795-1806)

• Franz Schimmelpfennig von der Ove (25 July 1796 – 23 April 1799)
• Friedrich Georg Tilly (23 April 1799 – 27 November 1806)

Duchy of Warsaw (1807-1815)

• Joachim Moszyński (December 1806 – 21 February 1807)
• Paweł Bieliński (17 April 1807 – 4 July 1807)
• Stanisław Węgrzecki (4 July 1807 - December 1815)

Congress Poland

• Karol Woyda (6 January 1816 – 30 November 1830)
• Stanisław Węgrzecki (30 November 1830 – 26 June 1831)
• Jakub Ignacy Łaszczyński (17 June 1831 – 1837)
• Aleksander Graybner (1837 – 9 November 1847)
• Teodor Andrault de Langeron (10 November 1847 - February 1862)
• Kazimierz Woyda (luty 1862 – 15 August 1862)
• Zygmunt Wielopolski (16 August 1862 – 18 September 1863)
• Kalikst Witkowski (16 September 1863 – 1 October 1875)
• Sokrates Starynkiewicz (18 November 1875 – 6 October 1892)
• Nikolai Bibikov (6 October 1892 – 29 June 1906)
• Wiktor Litwiński (July 1906 – 26 April 1909)
• Aleksander Miller (4 September 1909 – 4 August 1915)

World War I and German occupation

• Zdzisław Lubomirski (5 August 1916 – 6 October 1917)

Republic of Poland (1918-1939)

• Piotr Drzewiecki (28 November 1921 – 7 December 1922)
• Stanisław Nowodworski (7 December 1922 – 22 June 1927)
• Władysław Jabłoński 22 June – 7 July 1927
• Zygmunt Słomiński (7 July 1927 – 2 March 1934)
• Marian Kościałkowski-Zyndram (2 March – 28 June 1934)
• Stefan Starzyński (2 August 1934 – 27 October 1939)

General Gouvernement

• Julian Kulski (28 October 1939 – 1 August 1944)
• Marceli Porowski (5 August 1944 – 2 October 1944)

People's Republic of Poland

Between 1950 and 1973 the highest representative of the government in Warsaw was named the "Head of the Municipal Branch of the National Council" (Przewodniczący Prezydium Miejskiej Rady Narodowej)

• Marian Spychalski (18 September 1944 - March 1945)
• Stanisław Tołwiński (5 March 1945 – 23 May 1950)
• Jerzy Albrecht (23 May 1950 – 14 May 1956)
• Janusz Zarzycki (14 May 1956 – 17 December 1956)
• Zygmunt Dworakowski (17 December 1956 – 5 May 1960)
• Janusz Zarzycki (5 May 1960 – 29 December 1967)
• Jerzy Majewski (29 December 1967 – 9 December 1973)
• Jerzy Majewski (13 December 1973 – 18 February 1982)
• Mieczysław Dębicki (18 February 1982 – 5 December 1986)
• Jerzy Bolesławski (5 December 1986 – 30 January 1990)

Republic of Poland

• Stanisław Wyganowski (27 January 1990 – 5 October 1994)
• Mieczysław Bareja (5 October 1994 – 3 November 1994)
• Marcin Święcicki (3 November 1994 – 30 March 1999)
• Paweł Piskorski (30 March 1999 – 14 January 2002)
• Wojciech Kozak (14 January 2002 – 18 November 2002)
• Lech Kaczyński (18 November 2002 - acting)

See also:

• Warsaw