Otto Suhr

Otto Suhr was a German politician as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He served as the Governing Mayor of Berlin from 1955 until his death.

He was born 1894 in Oldenburg and went with his family to Osnabrck when he was nine years old four years later the family went to Leipzig, where Suhr studied economics, history and publishing science at the university, interrupted by his service at the German Army in World War I. Suhr joined the SPD and from 1922 worked as a secretary at the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund trade unions association in Kassel and was a member of the local SPD executive committee under Philipp Scheidemann. He received his doctorate in 1923 and from 1925 taught economics at the University of Jena. In 1926 he joined the board of the Allgemeiner freier Angestelltenbund in Berlin, which had to dissolve in the course of the Nazi Machtergreifung of 1933 and the succeeding Gleichschaltung process. From 1935 Suhr worked as a journalist at the Frankfurter Zeitung and other newspapers. He remained in contact with Social Democratic members of the German resistance like Adolf Grimme and had to face several i

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