A. P. Hamann
| A. P. Hamann | |
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| San Jose City Manager | |
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In office March 10, 1950 – November 1969 |
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| Preceded by | O. W. Campbell |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Fletcher |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 26, 1909 |
| Died | March 27, 1977 (aged 67) Tenerife North Airport, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | Frances Hamann |
| Children | A.P. "Butch" Hamann |
| Alma mater | Santa Clara University |
| Occupation | Management |
| Profession | Attorney |
Anthony P. Hamann (September 26, 1909 – March 27, 1977), better known as A. P. Hamann or Dutch, was the city manager of San Jose, California, USA, from 1950 to 1969. During his tenure, San Jose grew from a small agriculture-based city of 95,000 residents to a large economically diverse city of almost 500,000.
Hamann attended Bellarmine College Preparatory and was a football player at Santa Clara University. After graduating in 1932, he served as the university's alumni association director before joining the United States Navy during World War II. After the war, Hamann left the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander, to become a division manager for General Motors.
On March 10, 1950, Hamann was appointed city manager of San Jose by a 4–3 vote of the city council. His first large project was to pass a bond measure to upgrade and expand the city's sewage system, building a new sewage treatment plant near Alviso. At the time, the city's sewage system was insufficient to handle the large amount of waste produced by the local canneries; Hamann's new plant was designed not just for current demand, but allowed for a significant expansion.
Hamann then directed an aggressive growth program for the city. Growing up in Orange County, Hamann felt that the development of that area, consisting of several mid-sized cities without a dominant city in the region, was a failure and worked to ensure that San Jose became the major city of the Santa Clara Valley. Central to this project were "strip annexations"—Hamann and his staff would determine where new tax-generating developments such as shopping centers were likely to be built, and would annex small strips of territory around the property to ensure no other city could claim the property so that San Jose would receive the sales tax revenue produced by property when it was finally developed.
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