Paul Nevermann

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name = Paul Nevermann


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office = First Mayor of Hamburg
term_start = 1 January 1961
term_end = 9 June 1965
predecessor = Max Brauer
successor = Herbert Weichmann
birth_date = February 5, 1902
birth_place = Klein Flottbek
death_date = March 22, 1979
death_place = Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife
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nationality = flagicon|GER German
party = Social Democratic Party (SPD)

Paul Nevermann (born February 5 1902, died March 22 1979) was a German politician, member of the of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and First Mayor of Hamburg (1961 – 1965).

Nevermann was born in Klein Flottbek (a then independent village in the Pinneberg district now a neighborhood in Hamburg's quarter Nienstedten). He studied law and after his graduation Nevermann worked for the Hamburg labor office, but was fired 1933 as a member of the SPD by the Nazi government.

Political life

He joined the SPD in 1920. In the aftermath of the July 20 plot of 1944 he was arrested. After the World War II he became Senator of Hamburg. From 1950 – 1953 Nevermann was Second Mayor of Hamburg and as a successor of Max Brauer he was elected as First Mayor on January 1 1961. During his term in office the North Sea flood of 1962 and the state visits of Charles de Gaulle (1963) and Elisabeth II (1965) were major events in Hamburg. During the visit of Elisabeth II the breakup with his wife became public and after a media campaign by the newspapers of Axel Springer Verlag Nevermann resigned in 1965.cite encyclopedia |last=Koplitzsch |first=Franklin |title=Nevermann, Paul |encyclopedia=Hamburg Lexikon |pages=347–348 |publisher=Ellert&Richter |date=2005 |edition=3 |isbn=3831901791 de icon]

Nevermann died in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain.

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