Max Brauer
| Max Brauer | |
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Max Brauer in 1927
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| First Mayor of Hamburg | |
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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 | |
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In office 4 December 1957 – 31 December 1960 |
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| Preceded by | Kurt Sieveking |
| Succeeded by | Paul Nevermann |
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3 September 1887 Ottensen, Germany |
| Died | 2 February 1973 (aged 85) Hamburg, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party (SPD) |
Max Julius Friedrich Brauer (3 September 1887 – 2 February 1973) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and first elected First Mayor of Hamburg after World War II.
In 1923 Brauer was mayor of the independent city of Altona, Prussia, after 1937 incorporated into Hamburg. Brauer fled the Nazi regime to the United States 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 In 1934 Brauer's German citizenship was revoked and he maintained the U.S. citizenship.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. 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.
16 October 1949, the took place. Brauers party, the SPD, got 65 of the 120 seats there. His new Hamburg government ("") started February 1950. In October 1953, the next election took place. The SPD got only 58 of the 120 seats; an alliance including the CDU got the other 62 seats. Kurt Sieveking (CDU) became Brauers successor; the started in December 1953. On , the SPD got 69 of the 120 seats. Brauer and his started working. Brauer had promised to Paul Nevermann (born 1902) that he would succeed him before the end of the term. The 'era Brauer' ended 20 December 1960 with extensive ceremonies.
By the West German federal election in September 1961, Brauer was elected as member of the German Bundestag in (later transformed, see Hamburg Nord). He did not candidate for the next federal election in 1965; his successor in his electoral ward Hans Apel (1932–2011) became an important SPD politician and minister (finance, defence).
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