Editing Wiesbaden (section)

===Mayor===
[[File:2019 Wiesbaden mayoral election (2nd round).svg|thumb|250px|Results of the second round of the 2019 mayoral election]]
The current mayor of Wiesbaden is Gert-Uwe Mende of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic Party]] (SPD), who was elected in 2019.

The most recent mayoral election was held on 26 May 2019, with a runoff held on 16 June, and the results were as follows:

{{election table}}
! rowspan=2 colspan=2| Candidate
! rowspan=2| Party
! colspan=2| First round
! colspan=2| Second round
|-
! Votes
! %
! Votes
! %
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Social Democratic Party of Germany}}| 
| align=left| Gert-Uwe Mende
| align=left| [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic Party]]
| 29,940
| 27.1
| 41,000
| 62.0
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Christian Democratic Union of Germany}}| 
| align=left| Eberhard Seidensticker
| align=left| [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|Christian Democratic Union]]
| 26,997
| 24.5
| 25,104
| 38.0
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Alliance 90/The Greens}}| 
| align=left| Christiane Hinninger
| align=left| [[Alliance 90/The Greens]]
| 25,849
| 23.4
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Free Democratic Party (Germany)}}| 
| align=left| Sebastian Rutten
| align=left| [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]]
| 11,590
| 10.5
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Alternative for Germany}}| 
| align=left| Eckhard Müller
| align=left| [[Alternative for Germany]]
| 6,859
| 6.2
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|The Left (Germany)}}| 
| align=left| Ingo von Seemen
| align=left| [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]]
| 5,336
| 4.8
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Free Voters}}| 
| align=left| Christian Bachmann
| align=left| [[Free Voters]]
| 3,812
| 3.5
|-
! colspan=3| Valid votes
! 110,383
! 98.9
! 66,104
! 98.6
|-
! colspan=3| Invalid votes
! 1,202
! 1.1
! 937
! 1.4
|-
! colspan=3| Total
! 111,585
! 100.0
! 67,041
! 100.0
|-
! colspan=3| Electorate/voter turnout
! 208,686
! 53.5
! 208,821
! 32.1
|-
| colspan=7| Source: City of Wiesbaden ([https://web.archive.org/web/20200929142851/https://wahlergebnisse.wiesbaden.de/a-web/_wahl/ob2019-obz/index.html 1st round], [https://web.archive.org/web/20200929143225/https://wahlergebnisse.wiesbaden.de/a-web/_wahl/ob2019s-obz/index.html 2nd round])
|}

The following is a list of mayors since 1945:{{efn|The information up to 2007 was retrieved from ''Die Wiesbadener Oberbürgermeister seit dem Bau des neuen Rathauses (1886)'' (The Wiesbaden Mayors since the construction of the new town mayor hall (1886).)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wiesbaden.de/rathaus/stadtpolitik/oberbuergermeister/amtsvorgaenger.php|title=Amtsvorgänger|access-date=13 December 2009|archive-date=25 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091225153349/http://wiesbaden.de/rathaus/stadtpolitik/oberbuergermeister/amtsvorgaenger.php|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

*1849–1868: Heinrich Fischer
*1868–1882: Wilhelm Lanz
*1882–1883: Christian Schlichter
*1883–1913: Carl Bernhard von Ibell
*1913–1919: Karl Glässing
*1919–1929: Fritz Travers
*1930–1933: Georg Krücke
*1933–1937: Alfred Schulte
*1937–1945: [[Erich Mix]]
*1945–1946: Georg Krücke
*1946–1953: Hans Heinrich Redlhammer
*1951–1954: Georg Kluge
*1954–1960: [[Erich Mix]]
*1960–1968: Georg Buch
*1968–1980: Rudi Schmitt
*1980–1982: Georg-Berndt Oschatz
*1982–1985: Hans-Joachim Jentsch
*1985–1997: Achim Exner
*1997–2007: Hildebrand Diehl
*2007–2013: Helmut Müller
*2013–2019: [[Sven Gerich]]
*2019– : Gert-Uwe Mende<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.wiesbaden.de/rathaus/stadtpolitik/oberbuergermeister/portraet-gert-uwe-mende.php | title=Porträt Gert-Uwe Mende &#124; Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden | access-date=27 August 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827142846/https://www.wiesbaden.de/rathaus/stadtpolitik/oberbuergermeister/portraet-gert-uwe-mende.php | archive-date=27 August 2019 | url-status=dead }}</ref>