Burgomaster (alternatively spelled Burgomeister, literally translated meaning 'master of the citizens') is the English form, rendering (often the Anglo-Saxon equivalent Mayor is substituted) various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chief magistrate and/or chairman of the executive council of a sub-national level of administration: Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city but now usually a country) and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... Chief Magistrate is a generic designation for a Magistrate whose office -individual or collegial- is the highest in his class, in either of the fundamental meanings of Magistrate (which often overlapped in the Ancient régime): as a major political and administrative office (in a republican form of government, at...

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• Bürgermeister, in German: in Germany, Austria, and formerly in Switzerland. In Switzerland, the title was abolished mid-19th century; various current titles for roughly equivalent offices include Gemeindepräsident, Stadtpräsident, Gemeindeammann, and Stadtamtmann.
• In an important city, especially in a city state (Stadtstaat), where one of the Bürgermeister has a rank equivalent to that of a minister-president, there can be several posts called Bürgermeister in the city's executive college, justifying the use of a compound title for the actual highest Magistrate (also rendered as Lord Mayor), such as:
  • Regierender Bürgermeister, 'Governing Burgomaster', 'Lord Mayor' in Berlin
  • Erster Bürgermeister, 'First Burgomaster' in Hamburg
  • Bürgermeister und Präsident des Senats, 'Burgomaster and President of the Senate' in Bremen
  • Oberbürgermeister, 'Supreme Burgomaster', the most common version
  • Präsidierender Bürgermeister, an obsolete formulation sometimes found in historic texts.
• Burgemeester in Dutch: Belgium (also Bourgmestre in French; a party-political post, though formally nominated by the regional government and answerable to it, the federal state and even the province) and in The Netherlands.
• Buergermeeschter in Luxembourg.
• In Polish, a mayoral title, derived from German, is burmistrz.
• Bourgmestre (French) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Councillor Patrick (Pat) John Stannard, Lord Mayor of Oxford (2004). ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... Hamburg from above Hamburgs motto: May the posterity endeavour with dignity to conserve the freedom, which the forefathers acquired. ... The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (official name in German: Freie Hansestadt Bremen) is the smallest of Germanys 16 Federal States (Bundesländer). ... There are several terms used in Dutch politics which are not easily translated into English. ... A mayor (Latin maīor better) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ...

Compound title at supra-municipal level

• Amtsbürgermeister (German; roughly translated: 'District Burgomaster') can be used for the Chief Magistrate of a Swiss constitutive Canton, as in Aargau 1815-1831 (next styled Landamman)

For other uses, see Aargau (disambiguation). ... Landammann or Landaman was the name given to the chief magistrate in certain Swiss cantons, also to the President of the Swiss Diet. ...

Sources and references

• WorldStatesmen- here Switzerland, see also other present countries