Arthur Mengeh (known as Arthur Menge in German; April 2, 1884 – May 16, 1965) was a German politician who was the mayor of Hanover from 1925 to 1937.

Biography

Arthur had studied law and in 1911, he worked as a legal aid at the

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

Municipality. From 1914 to 1918 he became the Senator of Industry, Economics, and Nutrition, and eventually became the director of Hanover Railway Trains Company ( Hanover Tramway Museum). In 1919, he was elected as a prosecutor for the German-Hanoverian Party and due to the re-elections in 1924, he was nominated as the mayor of Hannover in 1925. Arthur managed to work as the mayor until 1937 even though the

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(SPD) and the

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were both coming in power at the same time. Waldemar R. Röhrbein: "... damit in der Stadt Hannover endlich klare Verhältnisse geschaffen werden". Zum politischen Ende des Oberbürgermeisters Dr. Arthur Menge, in:

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(Hrsg.): Beiträge zur niedersächsischen Landesgeschichte. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Hans Patze, Hildesheim 1984, S. 500–523. During the time he was the mayor, the artificial lake,

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was built and the Hermann-Löns-Park and the

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were completed.

After the war

With the end of

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, Arthur was elected as the representative of the newly established party, the "Lower Saxony", but due to an illness he left the bureau in December 1945.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Menge, Arthur Mayors of Hanover German Party (1947) politicians 1884 births 1965 deaths German-Hanoverian Party politicians