The city of Windhoek, capital of Namibia, was officially founded on 18 October 1890 by Curt von François, an Imperial German colonial official in the Schutztruppe, to serve as capital of German South-West Africa. Since then, the city had 49 different mayors, the first of them starting to serve in 1909.
South African mandate (1920–66)
19??–18: Dr Kohler
1920–22: Peter Müller
1927–28: Joseph Wood, born 17 February 1876 in Birmingham, England, a Wesleyan Church minister.
1929–38:John Meinert, born 9 December 1886 in Hamburg, Germany. Businessman and founder of John Meinert Printing Ltd.
19??–??: Edgar Sander, born 4 March 1895 in Leipzig, Germany, entered Namibia in 1923. Sander farmed with Karakul skins and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of South-West Africa.
19??–??: Abraham Bernard May, medical doctor and district surgeon
1941–46: Marie Elizabeth May Bell, first female mayor of Windhoek
1950s: Simon Frank, born 11 October 1913 in Robertson, South Africa. Advocate Frank was mayor of Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal before taking the post in Windhoek.
1954–55: Willem Hendrik Immelmann, born 11 February 1904 in Sutherland, South Africa, was a manager at Windhoek Universal Motors.
1956–57: Hermanus Johannes Steyn, born in 1890 in Ermelo, South Africa. Steyn was an ophthalmologist and the leader of the National Party of South-West Africa.
1957–61: Jaap Snyman (Jacobus van Deventer Snyman), businessman, born 7 February 1919 in Zeerust, South Africa. Snyman was the owner of the car that was set on fire during the Old Location Uprising in December 1959, prompting the police to open fire at the protesters and killing 11 people.
1961–63: Stefanus Johannes Spies, born 26 June 1922 in Oudtshoorn, South Africa. He was a businessman and entered Namibia in 1945.
1963–65: Jack Levinson
1965-?: Sam Davis
19??–??: Dries Yssel
19??–??: Joey Olivier
19??–??: Petra Hamman
19??–??: Vivienne Graig-McLaren
1970–71: Joachim Bernhard Hermann von Prittwitz und Gaffron, mechanical engineer
1974–76: Günther Kaschik, born 16 January 1930 in Germany, was a businessman and manager of the South-West African Buildings Society
1990–1992: Björn von Finckenstein
1993: Matheus Shikongo
1994–1999: Björn von Finckenstein
1999-2000: Immanuel Ngatjizeko
2000–10: Matheus Shikongo, longest-serving mayor of Windhoek
2010–12: Elaine Trepper
2012–2014: Agnes Kafula
2014 - : Muesee Kazapua
List of mayors of Windhoek Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
