Hinrich Lehmann-Grube

Hinrich Lehmann-Grube (21 December 1932 – 6 August 2017) was a German politician. He served as Mayor of Leipzig from 1990 through 1998. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He was born in Königsberg (present day Kaliningrad, Russia).

Life Hinrich Lehmann-Grube was born in December 1932 as the son of the pediatrician Fritz Lehmann-Grube and his wife Elsa, née Lück. At the end of the Second World War, the family fled to Hamburg, where his mother came from. He finished school in 1951 with his Abitur in Hamburg and then studied law, interrupted by a six-month study stay at the Sorbonne in Paris. He passed both state examinations and received his doctorate in 1961. His term in office was characterized by the "Leipzig model", the alternative political attempt to solve problems across party and faction boundaries in a fact-oriented manner. In the direct elections of the mayor on , he was confirmed in office by a large majority.

During Lehmann-Grube's term of office, the new exhibition center of the Leipzig Trade Fair was inaugurated in 1996 and the communities of Hartmannsdorf, Lausen, Plaußig and Seehausen were incorporated into Leipzig. On , Lehmann-Grube retired and handed over the business to his party colleague and previous deputy Wolfgang Tiefensee, who had been elected as his successor, on .

Death Lehmann-Grube died in Leipzig of cancer on at the age of 84.

Honors On , Lehmann-Grube was made an honorary citizen of the city of Leipzig in recognition of his services as mayor from 1990 to 1998.

At its meeting on , the Leipzig City Council decided to rename the part of Roßplatz with the Mägdebrunnen to Hinrich-Lehmann-Grube-Platz.