Kurt Sieveking (21 December 1897,

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– 16 March 1986, Hamburg) was a German politician ( CDU) and First Mayor of

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. On 7 September 1956 he was elected for a one-year-term as

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. Because his successor-elect, Governing Mayor of Berlin

Otto Suhr Otto Ernst Heinrich Hermann Suhr (17 August 1894 – 30 August 1957) was a German politician as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He served as the Governing Mayor of Berlin (i.e. West Berlin) from 1955 until his death. L ...

, had died on 30 August 1957, Sieveking was re-elected as President of the Bundesrat in order to avoid a vacancy. He resigned on 1 November 1957, when

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became the new Governing Mayor of Berlin and President of the Bundesrat subsequently. Because of that, Sieveking is, as yet, the only President of the Bundesrat to be re-elected to a second consecutive term (seven other persons have held two non-consecutive one-year-terms). Sieveking was from a well known Hamburg family, his great-granduncle

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preceded him in office as First Mayor in the 1860s. Many streets and places in Hamburg were named after them: e.g. ''Sievekingsallee'', ''Sievekingdamm'' or ''Sievekingsplatz'' (53°33'19"N 9°58'34"E). In 1951, Sieveking was appointed as the

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in Stockholm and later ambassador in Sweden. In 1953, Sieveking was the candidate of the conservative parties for the office of the First Mayor. He won the election, in his office term he reformed the school system and initiated the town twinning with

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(then ''Leningrad'') in 1957. After the election defeat he remained member of the

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. Sieveking is buried at the

Ohlsdorf Cemetery Ohlsdorf Cemetery (german: Ohlsdorfer Friedhof or (former) ) in the Ohlsdorf quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany, is the biggest rural cemetery in the world and the fourth-largest cemetery in the world. Most of the people buried at the cemete ...

(S25 T25 1–19.

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1897 births 1986 deaths Presidents of the German Bundesrat Mayors of Hamburg Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians Kurt {{Germany-mayor-stub