Max Brauer

Max Julius Friedrich Brauer (3 September 1887 – 2 February 1973) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the first elected First Mayor of Hamburg after World War II.

Life In 1923, Brauer was mayor of the independent city of Altona, Prussia, incorporated into Hamburg after 1937. 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 In 1934 Brauer's German citizenship was revoked. 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 Vaughan Berry stopped the heating in the officers' mess until there were a solution. The street Max-Brauer-Allee in the Altona borough is named after him.

Works Brauer, Max. 1952. Consecration of the memorial for the Hamburg air raid victims: [speech at the inauguration on 16 August 1952 at Ohlsdorf Cemetery of the memorial for the Hamburg air raid victims.]