Otto Suhr
| Otto Suhr | |
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Mayor Otto Suhr (centre) at Tempelhof Airport with Berlin children departing for holidays in West Germany, July 1955
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| Governing Mayor of West Berlin | |
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In office 11 January 1955 – 30 August 1957 |
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| Preceded by | Walther Schreiber |
| Succeeded by | Willy Brandt |
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17 August 1894 Oldenburg, Duchy of Oldenburg, German Empire |
| Died | 30 August 1957 (aged 63) West Berlin |
| Political party | Social Democrats |
Otto Suhr (17 August 1894 – 30 August 1957) was a German politician as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He served as the Governing Mayor of Berlin (i.e. West Berlin) from 1955 until his death.
He was born 1894 in Oldenburg and went with his family to Osnabrück when he was nine years old; four years later the family went to Leipzig, where Suhr studied economics, history and publishing science at the university, interrupted by his service in the German Army in World War I. Suhr joined the SPD and from 1922 worked as a secretary at the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund trade unions' association in Kassel and was a member of the local SPD executive committee under Philipp Scheidemann. He received his doctorate in 1923 and from 1925 taught economics at the University of Jena. In 1926 he joined the board of the Allgemeiner freier Angestelltenbund (General Free Federation of Employees) in Berlin, which had to dissolve in the course of the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 and the succeeding Gleichschaltung process. From 1935 Suhr worked as a journalist at the Frankfurter Zeitung and other newspapers. He remained in contact with Social Democratic members of the German resistance like Adolf Grimme and had to face several interrogations by the Gestapo.
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