Ortwin Runde

Ortwin Runde
First Mayor of Hamburg
In office 12 November 1997 – 31 October 2001
President	Roman Herzog Johannes Rau
Chancellor	Helmut Kohl Gerhard Schröder
Preceded by	Henning Voscherau
Succeeded by	Ole von Beust
Personal details
Born	(1944-02-12) 12 February 1944 (age 80) Elbing, Germany (now Poland)
Nationality	Germany
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Alma mater	University of Münster University of Hamburg

Ortwin Runde (born 12 February 1944) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He was the First Mayor (Erster Bürgermeister) of the Free and Hanseatic City Hamburg from 1997 to 2001.