Heinrich Sahm

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Sahm ( born September 12, 1877 in Anklam, † October 3, 1939 in Oslo ) was a German politician and Danziger. From 1931 to 1935 he was mayor of Berlin.

Life

Sahm studied in Munich, Greifswald and Berlin, law and political sciences. During his studies he became a member of the Turner properties Cimbria Greifswald and Rhenaniastraße Berlin (today Turnerschaft Berlin). 1900-1904 he worked as a court clerk in Wollin, Pomerania and Stettin.

Then Sahm began a career in local government in the years 1906 and 1912 as a councilor in Magdeburg and was deputy mayor from 1912 to 1915 in Bochum. During the First World War he served from 1915 to 1918 as a local political consultant of the German Civil Administration in Warsaw. 1918/19, he worked as a director of the German and Prussian cities day. On February 25, 1919, he was elected Mayor of Gdansk.

After entry into force of the Treaty of Versailles, he was on 6 November 1920 and on January 9, 1931 continuously through three legislatures Senate President of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig. Sahms political pursuit in Gdansk has been to get the German character of the city after the separation from the German Empire and ward Polish aspirations.

On 14 April 1931 he was elected Lord Mayor of Berlin, which he did gain at the same time the position of President of the German and Prussian cities day. The last time being democratically certain mayor is said to have participated as a German nationalist in the expansion of the Nazi regime at the local level. He should have put his signature to the layoffs the new regime not agreeable to employees and the exclusion of communist city councilor. After Julius Lippert has given it as a state commissioner to the side in March 1933, lost his position in decision-making powers. On 18 December 1935, he resigned and went on 11 May 1936 as ambassador to Oslo, from where it was dismissed in 1939 Foreign Minister Ribbentrop. Sahm died following an operation for appendicitis. His grave is located in the forest cemetery Dahlem.

Sahm was a member of the NSDAP since November 1933. His exclusion in 1935 by party court proceedings for shopping in Jewish stores was lifted at the express request of Adolf Hitler.

A grandson of Sahm is the Middle East correspondent Ulrich W. Sahm, son of the German diplomat Ulrich Sahm.