The list of the Hamburg mayor since the Reformation is very long. Without shedding of blood was Protestant Hamburg. Since 1510 was the city as an imperial city.

The first stock exchange was opened here in 1558 and even after the decline of the Hanseatic city-state remained an important economic center. The history of the Upper Old Town and its significance for policy, Economic and cultural life are described in detail in the following works:

Literature:

• Buek, Friedrich Georg: Genealogical and Biographical Notes of the deceased since the Reformation hamburgischen mayor, Hamburg: Publisher John Augustus Masters, 1840
• Buek, George Frideric: The Hamburg Oberaltenburg, their civic efficacy and their families, Hamburg: Perthes Better & Mauke, 1857
• Wohlwill, Adolf: The mayor hamburgischen Church Pauer, Petersen, Versmann, Hamburg: Otto Meissner, 1903
• Wohlwill, Adolf: Mayor Petersen: A Hamburg life image, Hamburg: Lütcke & Wulff, 1900
• Bartels, Johann Heinrich: The Hamburg Mayor Henry Meurer, Hamburg: August Campe Verlag, 1836
• Meyer, Edward Lorenz: Hamburg Coat of Arms and Genealogies, Hamburg : Self-publishing 1890
• Kirsten, Hans: Portrait Medals Hamburg mayor and aldermen, Hamburg: Broschek, 1916
• Read Mountain, A: The family Sieveking, Berlin, 1886

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