Kurt Sieveking

Kurt Sieveking ( born February 21, 1897 in Hamburg, † March 16, 1986 ) was a German politician of the CDU. From 1953 to 1957 he served as Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Life

Sieveking comes from old family in Hamburg. Many of his ancestors were senators, according to them several streets and squares are named in Hamburg (eg Sievekingsallee Sievekingdamm, Sievekingplatz ). Sieveking was a volunteer in the First World War. He studied law in Heidelberg, Munich and Marburg, became the Dr. jur. PhD, worked as a lawyer in Hamburg from 1925 to 1934 and was General Counsel since 1936 in the bank MM Warburg & Co. In the Weimar Republic, he had the DVP belongs. On December 2, 1953 Sieveking was, previously German ambassador in Sweden, as the successor of Max Brauer ( SPD), the First Mayor of Hamburg. CDU, FDP and DP had founded for the purpose of regime change the Hamburg- block. Four years reigned Kurt Sieveking the Hanseatic city. Multiple majority of the Senate was threatened because of all the conservative DP threatened to enter into a coalition with the Social Democrats.

The Federal Council elected on 20 July 1956 in Bonn Sieveking unanimously as its President for the year beginning on September 7 financial year.

Due to the fact that the chosen to succeed him as President of the Bundesrat Governing Mayor of Berlin, Otto Suhr died a week before taking office, Sieveking was, notwithstanding re-elected by king Steiner agreement, on September 6, 1957 as President of the Bundesrat. After the State of Berlin decreed the election of Willy Brandt on October 3, 1957 again over an elected government, Sieveking joined as agreed by 31 October 1957 as President of the Bundesrat back, Brandt was on November 1, his successor.

Sieveking was thus the only President of the Bundesrat, the board longer than one year at a time to the Federal Council.

In June 1957 agreed Hamburg and then Leningrad called Russian city of Saint Petersburg recording of friendly relations. The partnership with St. Petersburg is the oldest of Hamburg.

In the 1957 state election, the SPD became again an absolute majority, so that Sieveking's predecessor Max Brauer also became his successor. Sieveking itself was then a member of the Hamburg Parliament. He was in 1960 appointed honorary senator of the University of Hamburg and in 1967 awarded the Hamburg Senate with the mayor - Stolten Medal.

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