Ole von Beust
| Ole von Beust | |
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Ole von Beust in 2009
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| First Mayor of Hamburg | |
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In office 31 October 2001 – 25 August 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Ortwin Runde |
| Succeeded by | Christoph Ahlhaus |
| President of the German Bundesrat | |
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In office 2007–2008 |
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| President | Horst Köhler |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Harald Ringstorff |
| Succeeded by | Peter Müller |
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Carl-Friedrich Arp Ole von Beust April 13, 1955 Hamburg, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
| Residence | Hamburg |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
| Religion | Lutheran |
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Carl-Friedrich Arp Ole Freiherr von Beust, generally called Ole von Beust (born April 13, 1955), is a German politician who was First Mayor of Hamburg from 31 October 2001 to 25 August 2010, serving as President of the Bundesrat from 1 November 2007 on for one year. He was succeeded as mayor by Christoph Ahlhaus.
Born in Hamburg, he is the son of Achim Helge Freiherr von Beust and Hanna, née Wolff, who was considered half Jewish in Nazi Germany. Through his father he is a descendant of Saxon and Austrian statesman Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust.
In 1971 Beust became a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). In 1973, after finishing high school, he worked for the CDU group in Hamburg's city-state parliament ("Bürgerschaft"), a position he held until he started to study law in 1975 at the University of Hamburg. From 1977 until 1983 he was Hamburg president of the youth organisation of his party. Since 1978 Beust has been a member of the Hamburg city-state's parliament. In 1983 he successfully completed his studies and became an independent lawyer.
He has been a member of the ruling council of the Hamburg Land CDU since 1992, and of the national ruling council of the CDU party since 1998.
First term
On 31 October 2001, Ole von Beust became First Mayor of Hamburg.
When Hamburg experienced an exodus of jobs after major corporations including cigarette-maker Reemtsma, travel and shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, haircare products-maker Hans Schwarzkopf and the Vereins and Westbank AG were acquired by companies outside of Hamburg, von Beust had the city's investment arm, the Hamburger Gesellschaft für Beteiligungsverwaltung, join forces with retailer Tchibo for the acquisition of cosmetics maker Beiersdorf in 2003. This put American multinational Procter & Gamble out of the bidding and preserved Beiersdorf as a publicly traded, stand-alone company in Hamburg.
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