Ludwig Steeg

Ludwig Steeg ( born December 22, 1894 in Ottweiler, † September 6, 1945 ), was a German Nazi politician and mayor of Berlin from 1940 until 1945.

Life

After the outbreak of the First World War he served in the infantry and was a lieutenant in the reserve. As of August 1919, he worked in the Berlin administration and was responsible, among other things, as an inspector for the city cleaning and Fuhrwesen. Soon after he joined the NSDAP in 1933 ( Mitgliedsnr. 1485884 ) he was deputy state commissioner Julius Lippert and belonged to the State Commissioner until 1937. In April of the same year he was appointed mayor of the city of Berlin, however, was mostly in the shadow of the Berlin Gauleiter and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Following the resignation Lippert in July 1940 Steeg took over officiating the business of the Mayor and managed beside provisionally the office of mayor.

In the SS ( SS-Nr. 127 531 ), he reached the end of January 1943 to the rank of SS brigade leader.

In February 1945, Steeg was appointed to the regular mayor and held this office until the end of the Battle of Berlin. Soon after the war ended Steeg died 51 years old on 6 September 1945 as a civilian internee in a Soviet prison camp.