Otto Suhr
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Otto Suhr (August 17, 1894 - August 30, 1957) was a German political figure as a member of the SPD. He served as the mayor of West Berlin between 1955 and 1957.
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. Since 1922 he workes as a secretary for the trade unions. Since 1946 Suhr was member of the Berlin state parliament and until 1954 the president of it. 1948/49 he was member of the Parlamentarischer Rat (parliamentary council). After ratification of the Grundgesetz in 1949 he was elected to the Federal Parliament (Bundestag) of West-Germany (until 1952). From 1955 to his death Suhr was Regierender Bürgermeister (governing mayor) of West-Berlin.
He died in Berlin. In his honor, the biggest and one of the most important institutes for political science in Germany - the Otto Suhr Institute (OSI) at the FU Berlin, a street in Oldenburg (in the district Eversten) as well as an avenue (Otto-Suhr-Allee) in Berlin (in the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf) are named after him.
| Preceded by Walther Schreiber |
Mayors of Berlin 1955 – 1957 |
Succeeded by Willy Brandt |
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