Torsten Burmester

Torsten Burmester
Torsten Burmester
	Burmester in 2025
Mayor of Cologne
	Incumbent
	Assumed office; 1 November 2025

Last updated November 06, 2025

↑ "Sport Minister Faeser signs Joint Declaration for Germany's bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games". Federal Ministry of the Interior. 2 August 2024.
↑ "Oberbürgermeister | Das Amt". City of Cologne (in German). 1 November 2025.

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Curriculum vitae on the website of the City of Cologne (in German)

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[1] "Sport Minister Faeser signs Joint Declaration for Germany's bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games". Federal Ministry of the Interior. 2 August 2024.

[2] "Oberbürgermeister | Das Amt". City of Cologne (in German). 1 November 2025.

v t e Mayors of Cologne
Oberbürgermeister der Stadt Köln (Lord Mayor)
1815-1933	Karl Joseph von Mylius Franz Rudolf von Monschaw Johann Adolf Steinberger Friedrich Wilhelm Gräff Hermann Joseph Stupp Alexander Bachem Hermann Heinrich Becker Friedrich von Becker Max Wallraf Konrad Adenauer
1933-1945	Günter Riesen Karl Georg Schmidt Peter Winkelnkemper Robert Brandes
since 1945	Konrad Adenauer Willi Suth Hermann Pünder Ernst Schwering Robert Görlinger ¹ Ernst Schwering Robert Görlinger Ernst Schwering Theo Burauen John van Nes Ziegler Norbert Burger Harry Blum ² Fritz Schramma Jürgen Roters Henriette Reker Torsten Burmester
¹ elected by sortition, after stand-off in city council ² first directly elected mayor

Torsten Burmester
Burmester in 2025

Mayor of Cologne
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 November 2025