Ernst Reuter | |
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Governing Mayor of Berlin (West Berlin) | |
In office 1 February 1951 – 29 September 1953 | |
President | Theodor Heuss |
Chancellor | Konrad Adenauer |
Preceded by | Himself (as Lord Mayor of Greater Berlin) |
Succeeded by | Walther Schreiber |
Lord Mayor of Greater Berlin (West Berlin only) | |
In office 24 June 1947 – 1 February 1951 | |
Preceded by | Otto Ostrowski Louise Schroeder (acting) |
Succeeded by | Himself (as Governing Mayor of Berlin) |
Chairman of the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | |
In office October 1918 – March 1919 | |
Succeeded by | Adam Reichert |
Personal details | |
Born | Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter 29 July 1889 Apenrade, Province of Schleswig-Holstein, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (present-day Aabenraa, Denmark) |
Died | 29 September 1953 West Berlin, West Germany (present-day Berlin, Germany) | (aged 64)
Resting place | Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf, Berlin |
Political party | Social Democratic Party (1922-1953) RSDRP(b) (1917-1919) KPD (1921-1922) USPD (1922) |
Spouse | Hanna Kleinert |
Children | Edzard Reuter |
Alma mater | Philipps-Universität Marburg |
Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter (29 July 1889 – 29 September 1953) was the mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953, during the time of the Cold War. He played a significant role in unifying the divided sectors of Berlin and publicly and politically took a stand against the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union.