Hans Lohmeyer (23 June 1881 in

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– 28 February 1968 in Berlin) was a German jurist, Lord Mayor of

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Life

By the time the war ended he had already become involved with the Evangelical Church in

. Following a period of

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was no longer a German city, however. Within postwar Germany Lohmeyer settled in what had become the

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and became a synod member of the

Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia The Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (german: Evangelische Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz, EKBO) is a United Protestant church body in the German states of Brandenburg, Berlin and a part of Saxony ( ...

. He also belonged to the so-called

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. In 1951 he co-founded the "Association for Communal Studies" (''"Verein für Kommunalwissenschaften"''), becoming its chairman in 1963. He is buried in

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.Königsberger Bürgerbrief XVII (1980), p. 38

Selected works

* ''Zentralismus oder Selbstverwaltung. Ein Beitrag zur Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsreform''. Berlin:

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, Berlin 1928, IV, 87 S. * ''Die Politik des Zweiten Reiches 1870–1918''. 2 Bände. Berlin: Neff, Band 1: 1939, 555 S.; Band 2: 1939, 578 S. *''Die städtischen Betriebe''. Königsberg 1924 *''Rückblick auf meine Amtszeit'', 1957 *''Meine Königsberger Jahre'', 1961

Literature

* , vol 2/1925, p. 28 * Helge Dvorak: ''Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft'' vol. I Politiker, Teilband 3: I–L. Heidelberg 1999, S. 309–311. * * Eckert Vogel: ''Dem Königsberger Oberbürgermeister Dr. Hans Lohmeyer zum Gedächtnis''. Königsberger Bürgerbrief 65 (2005), p. 59 f
Hans Lohmeyer
Munzinger archive 37/1956 of 3 September 1956

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Verein für Kommunalwissenschaften
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lohmeyer, Hans German jurists Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1881 births 1968 deaths