Max Brauer
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Max Brauer | |
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 Max Brauer in 1927 | |
| First Mayor of Hamburg | |
| In office 22 November 1946 – 2 December 1953 | |
| Preceded by | Rudolf Hieronymus Petersen |
| Succeeded by | Kurt Sieveking |
| First Mayor of Hamburg | |
| In office 4 December 1957 – 31 December 1960 | |
| Preceded by | Kurt Sieveking |
| Succeeded by | Paul Nevermann |
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| Born | 3 September 1887 Ottensen, Germany |
| Died | 2 February 1973 (aged 85) Hamburg, Germany |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party (SPD) |
Max Julius Friedrich Brauer (3 September 1887 – 2 February 1973) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and first elected First Mayor of Hamburg after World War II.
In 1923 Brauer was mayor of the independent city of Altona. Brauer fled the Nazi regime to the United States in 1933 with a passport of a friend.[1] In 1934 Brauer's German citizenship was revoked and he maintained the U.S. citizenship. In July 1946 he came back to Hamburg working for the American Federation of Labor.[2] In October 1946 after the election of the Hamburg Parliament, Brauer was elected as the First Mayor of Hamburg. After Brauer complained in a letter to the British forces about the supply shortfall in Hamburg, the British Governor Vaugham H. Berry ordered not to heat the officers' mess until there were a solution.[1]
From 1961 until 1965 Brauer was member of the German Bundestag.[2]
Honours
In 1960, Brauer was given the honorary citizen award of Hamburg.[3] The street Max-Brauer-Allee in the Altona borough is named after him.
Works
- Brauer, Max. 1952. Consecration of the memorial for the Hamburg air raid victims: [speech at the inauguration on 16th Aug., 1952, on Ohlsdorf Cemetery of the memorial for the Hamburg air raid victims.] OCLC 78551498
References
- ^ a b Verg, Erik; Verg, Martin (2007), Das Abenteuer das Hamburg heißt (4th ed.), Hamburg: Ellert&Richter, pp. 163, 167, 184, ISBN 978-3-8319-0137-1 Template:De icon
- ^ a b Koplitzsch, Franklin (2005), "Brauer, Max", Hamburg Lexikon (3 ed.), Ellert&Richter, pp. 82–83, ISBN 3-8319-0179-1. Template:De icon
- ^ Staff, Hamburgische Ehrenbürger, State Chancellery, retrieved 2008-08-13 Template:De icon
External links
Media related to Max Brauer at Wikimedia Commons
- Max Brauer in the German National Library catalogue
- http://www.hans-bredow-institut.de/nwdr/zz/Schwermer/artikel.htm
- http://library.fes.de/fulltext/afs/htmrez/80705.htm
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