List of mayors of Kitchener, Ontario

Mayor of the City of Kitchener
Incumbent Berry Vrbanovic since 2014
Style	His Worship Mayor
Member of	City Council
Seat	Kitchener City Hall
Term length	Four years
Inaugural holder	John Scott (Reeve) William Pipe (Mayor)
Formation	1854 (Reeve) 1871 (Mayor)
Website	Kitchener Mayor

This is list of reeves and mayors of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. The village, town and later city were known as Berlin until 1916, when the city's name was changed to Kitchener. Berlin was incorporated as a village in 1854, became a town in 1870, and a city in 1912.

Village of Berlin (1854–1870)

#	Image	Reeve	Term start	Term end
1		John Scott	1854	1856
2		H. S. Huber	1857	1857
3		Israel D. Bowman	1858	1858
4		H. S. Huber	1859	1864
5		Ward H. Bowlby	1865	1868
6		Hugo Kranz	1869	1870

Town of Berlin (1870–1912)

#	Image	Mayor	Term start	Term end
1		William Pipe	1871	1871
2		John Hoffman	1872	1873
3		Hugo Kranz	1874	1878
4		Louis Breithaupt	1879	1880
5		John Motz	1880	1881
6		Jacob Yost Shantz	1882	1882
7		William Jaffray	1883	1883
8		Alexander Millar	1884	1885
9		Henry George Lackner	1886	1887
10		Louis Jacob Breithaupt	1888	1889
11		Henry L. Janzen	1890	1890
12		Jacob M. Staebler	1891	1891
13		Conrad Bitzer	1892	1892
14		Henry George Lackner	1893	1893
15		Daniel Hibner	1894	1895
16		J. C. Breithaupt	1896	1897
17		George Rumpel	1898	1898
18		John Richard Eden	1899	1900
19		George H. Bowlby	1901	1901
20		John Richard Eden	1902	1903
21		Carl Kranz	1904	1905
22		Aaron Bricker	1906	1907
23		Allen Huber	1908	1908
24		Charles C. Hahn	1909	1910
25		William H. Schmalz	1911	1911

City of Berlin (1912–1916)

#	Image	Mayor	Term start	Term end
1		William H. Schmalz	1912	1912
2		William Daum Euler	1913	1914
3		John Emil Hett	1915	1915

City of Kitchener (1916–present)

#	Image	Mayor	Term start	Term end
1		John Emil Hett	1916	1916
2		David Gross	1917	1919
3		John Richard Eden	1920	1920
4		Charles Greb	1921	1922
5		Louis Orville Breithaupt	1923	1924
6		Nicholas Asmussen	1925	1926
7		Edward E. Ratz	1927	1928
8		William Pope Clement	1929	1930
9		C. Mortimer Bezeau	1931	1932
10		Henry W. Sturm	1933	1934
11		Justus Albert Smith	1935	1937
12		George W. Gordon	1938	1939
13		Joseph Ignatino Meinzinger	1940	1945
14		John G. Brown	1946	1947
15		J. W. Washburn	1948	1949
16		Stanley Francis Leavine	1950	1951
17		Bruce Weber	1952	1953
18		Donald Weber	1954	1955
19		Fred L. Dreger	1956	1957
20		Stanley Francis Leavine	1958	1958
21		Kieth Hymmen	1958	1958
22		Joseph Ignatino Meinzinger	1959	1959
23		H. E. Wambold	1960	1960
24		Joseph Ignatino Meinzinger	1961	1962
25		James E. Gray	1962	1962
26		Kieth Hymmen	1963	1965
27		William L. Butler	1966	1967
28		Sidney M. McLennan	1968	1974
29		Edith McIntosh	1975	1976
30		Morley Rosenberg	1977	1982
31		Dom Cardillo	1983	1994
32		Richard D. Christy	1995	1997
33		Carl Zehr	1997	2014
34		Berry Vrbanovic	2014	Incumbent

References

• Uttley, W.V. (Ben) (2010). A History of Kitchener, Ontario. p. 413. ISBN 1-55458-808-1.
• "Fonds – City of Kitchener – Mayor's and Council fonds". City of Kitchener.
• "Mayors of Berlin/Kitchener". History of Kitchener. City of Kitchener. Archived from the original on 2014-09-25. Retrieved 2014-09-25.

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