Max Brauer

Max Brauer
Max Brauer
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
Personal details
Born September 3, 1887
Ottensen
Died February 1973
Hamburg
Nationality Germany German
Political party Social Democratic Party (SPD)

Max Julius Friedrich Brauer (born September 3, 1887 in Ottensen; died February 1973 in Hamburg) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and First Mayor of Hamburg.

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fled the Nazi regime to the United States in 1933 with a passport of a friend.[1] In 1934 Brauer's German citizenship was revoked and he maintained the U.S. citizenship.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]

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Honours

In 1960, Brauer was given the honorary citizen award of Hamburg.[3] The street Max-Brauer-Allee in the Altona borough is named for 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

  1. ^ a b Verg, Erik; Verg, Martin (2007), Das Abenteuer das Hamburg heißt (4th ed.), Hamburg: Ellert&Richter, pp. 163, 167, 184, ISBN 9783831901371  (German)
  2. ^ a b Koplitzsch, Franklin (2005), Brauer, Max (3 ed.), Ellert&Richter, pp. 82–83, ISBN 3831901791.  (German)
  3. ^ Staff, Hamburgische Ehrenbürger, State Chancellery, http://www.hamburg.de/ehrenbuerger/, retrieved 2008-08-13  (German)

External links

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