Editing Primus inter pares (section)

===Germany===
[[Mayor]]s of German [[city state]]s have traditionally acted as {{lang|la|primus inter pares}}. In [[Hamburg]], [[Lübeck]] and [[Bremen (state)|Bremen]], which had been [[Free Imperial Cities]] from the times of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], the government was called [[Senate#Alternative meanings|Senate]]. The mayor was one senator amongst many, often referred to as [[president of the Senate]] rather than mayor. This ended in [[Lübeck]] with the [[Gesetz über Groß-Hamburg und andere Gebietsbereinigungen|incorporation into Prussia]] in 1937. While in a constitutional reform in 1996, the [[mayor of Hamburg]] was given broad powers to shape the politics of the [[Senate of Hamburg]], thus, ending his status as {{lang|la|primus inter pares}}. However, in the city state [[Bremen (state)|Free Hanseatic City of Bremen]] which was created after the Second World War, the mayor has had a similar role in the [[Senate of Bremen]]. The same was true until 1995 for the [[governing mayor of Berlin]] among his colleagues within the [[Senate of Berlin]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2019}}