Max Brauer | |
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Max Brauer in 1927 | |
First Mayor of Hamburg | |
In office 22 November 1946 – 2 December 1953 |
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Preceded by | Rudolf Hieronymus Petersen |
Succeeded by | Kurt Sieveking |
First Mayor of Hamburg | |
In office 4 December 1957 – 31 December 1960 |
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Preceded by | Kurt Sieveking |
Succeeded by | Paul Nevermann |
Personal details | |
Born | September 3, 1887 Ottensen |
Died | February 1973 Hamburg |
Nationality | 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fled the Nazi regime to the United States in 1933 with a passport of a friend.[1] In 1934 Brauer's German citizenship was revoked and he maintained the U.S. citizenship.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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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.
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