Rudolf Ross

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Rudolf Ross
Second Mayor of Hamburg
In office
1928–1929
Preceded by Max Schramm
Succeeded by Carl Wilhelm Petersen
First Mayor of Hamburg
In office
1930–1931
Preceded by Carl Wilhelm Petersen
Succeeded by Carl Wilhelm Petersen
Personal details
Born 22 March 1872
Hamburg
Died 16 February 1951
Hamburg
Nationality German
Political party Social Democratic Party (SPD)

Rudolf Adolf Wilhelm Ross (Also styled Roß, 1872 1951) was a German teacher, politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), member of the Hamburg Parliament and first Mayor of Hamburg.

Early life

Ross was born on 22 March 1872 in Hamburg and became a teacher in 1892. He served in the First World War from 1914 until 1918. In 1923 he married his wife Frieda, née Hinsch (18991975).[1]

Political career

In 1919, Ross was elected as a member of the Hamburg Parliament, and served until 1933. He was President of the diet from 1920 until 1928. In 1928 the parliament elected Ross into the Senate of Hamburg and became Second Mayor, 1930 1931 he was First Mayor of Hamburg. On 3 March 1933 he resigned from the Hamburg Parliament under protest to the Machtergreifungthe Nazi takeover of power in Weimar Germany on 30 January 1933.[1]

Death

On 16 February 1951, Ross died after a long and severe illness in Hamburg.[1]

Works

  • Vorschläge zur Reform der Lehrerbildung in Hamburg (in German). Hamburg: Senger. 1913. OCLC 257912602. 
  • Hamburg während der Weimarer Republik : Reden und Aufsätze, anlässlich der Taufe des Dampfers "Bürgermeister Ross" (in German). Hamburg: Auerdruck. 1948. OCLC 73707056. 

References

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia (version of March 2010).
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Reiner Lehberger (2001), Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke, ed., Rudolf Ross (in German), Hamburgische Biografie-Personenlexikon, Band 2, Wallenstein Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7672-1366-1 

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