Max Brauer
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Max Julius Friedrich Brauer (born September 3, 1887 in Ottensen; died February 1973 in Hamburg
Hamburg
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) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD)
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 and First Mayor of Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

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In 1923 Brauer was mayor of the independent city of Altona
Altona, Hamburg
Altona is the westernmost urban borough of the German city state of Hamburg, on the right bank of the Elbe river. From 1640 to 1864 Altona was under the administration of the Danish monarchy. Altona was an independent city until 1937...

. Brauer fled the Nazi regime to the United States
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 in 1933 with a passport of a friend. In 1934 Brauer's German citizenship was revoked and he maintained the U.S. citizenship.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
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. In October 1946 after the election of the Hamburg Parliament
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, 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.

From 1961 until 1965 Brauer was member of the German Bundestag
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Honours

In 1960, Brauer was given the honorary citizen award of Hamburg. The street Max-Brauer-Allee in the Altona
Altona, Hamburg
Altona is the westernmost urban borough of the German city state of Hamburg, on the right bank of the Elbe river. From 1640 to 1864 Altona was under the administration of the Danish monarchy. Altona was an independent city until 1937...

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.]

External links

  • http://www.hans-bredow-institut.de/nwdr/zz/Schwermer/artikel.htm
  • http://library.fes.de/fulltext/afs/htmrez/80705.htm
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