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Max Brauer | |
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 Brauer in 1927 | |
| First Mayor of Hamburg | |
| In office 22 November 1946 – 2 December 1953 | |
| President | Theodor Heuss |
| Chancellor | Konrad Adenauer |
| Preceded by | Rudolf Hieronymus Petersen |
| Succeeded by | Kurt Sieveking |
| In office 4 December 1957 – 31 December 1960 | |
| President | Theodor Heuss Heinrich Lübke |
| Chancellor | Konrad Adenauer |
| Preceded by | Kurt Sieveking |
| Succeeded by | Paul Nevermann |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1887-09-03)3 September 1887 Ottensen, Germany |
| Died | 2 February 1973(1973-02-02) (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 theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) and the first electedFirst Mayor ofHamburg afterWorld War II.
In 1923, Brauer was mayor of the independent city ofAltona, Prussia, incorporated into Hamburg after 1937. 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fled the Nazi regime to the United States in 1933 with a passport of a friend.[1] In 1934 Brauer's German citizenship was revoked. In July 1946 he came back to Hamburg working for theAmerican Federation of Labor.[2] In October 1946 after the election of theHamburg 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 GovernorVaughan Berry stopped the heating in the officers' mess until there were a solution.[1]
On 16 October 1949, thesecond Hamburg Parliament election [de] took place where Brauer's party, the SPD, received 65 of the 120 seats. His new Hamburg government ("Senat Brauer II [de]") started February 1950. In October 1953, the next election took place. The SPD received only 58 of the 120 seats; an alliance including the CDU received the other 62 seats.Kurt Sieveking (CDU) became Brauer's successor; theSenate Sieveking [de] started in December 1953.On10 November 1957 [de], the SPD received 69 of the 120 seats. Brauer and histhird Senate [de] started working. Brauer had promised toPaul Nevermann (born 1902) that he would transfer power to him before the end of the term. The 'era Brauer' ended 20 December 1960 with extensive ceremonies.
By theWest German federal election in September 1961, Brauer was elected as member of the GermanBundestag[2] inBundestagswahlkreis Hamburg IV [de] (later transformed, seeHamburg-Nord). He was not a candidate for thenext federal election in 1965; his successor in his electoral wardHans Apel (1932–2011) became an important SPD politician and minister (finance, defence).
Brauer is buried inAltona Main Cemetery.
In 1960, Brauer was given thehonorary citizen award of Hamburg.[3] The streetMax-Brauer-Allee in theAltona borough is named after him.
