Kurt Sieveking

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Sieveking 2nd from the left (in the background)
Kurt Sieveking on an election poster for the 1961 township election
Kurt Sieveking (front right), family grave, Ohlsdorf cemetery

Kurt Sieveking (* 21st February 1897 in Hamburg , † 16th March 1986 ) was a German politician of the CDU . From 1953 to 1957 he was first mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Life

Sieveking comes from an old Hamburg family. Many of his ancestors were scholars, doctors and senators, and various streets and squares in Hamburg are named after them (e.g. Sievekingsallee , Sievekingdamm , Sievekingplatz). He grew up in Hamburg, attended the Johanneum -Gymnasium and completed in 1914 his Notabitur .

Sieveking was a war volunteer in World War I and lost her left arm while training as a pilot in 1917. After the war he studied law in Heidelberg, Munich and Marburg and completed his studies in 1922 with the promotion of Dr. jur. from. From 1923 to 1924 he worked as a trainee lawyer in the Foreign Office , later at a bank in Berlin. After completion of the second state examination in 1925, he settled as a lawyer in Hamburg, from 1936 as general counsel at Bankhaus MM Warburg & Co .

Sieveking was married to the sculptor Ellen Ruperti since 1925. The marriage resulted in 3 children.

career

In the Weimar Republic he was a member of the DVP . His work in the bank was interrupted in 1944 when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in Denmark , but he returned to Hamburg after the war.

On December 1, 1945, he was appointed by Mayor Rudolf Petersen to the office of Senate Syndic in Hamburg City Hall and was thus not only head of the mayor's office, but also a liaison with the British military government . Even after Mayor Max Brauer took office in 1946, Sieveking retained his position, but when the Foreign Service was established in 1951, he initially went to Sweden as the German consul general and became German ambassador in Stockholm after a few months .

On December 2, 1953, Sieveking was elected First Mayor of Hamburg as the successor to Max Brauer ( SPD ). The CDU, DP and FDP had founded the Hamburg Block for the purpose of changing power . Kurt Sieveking ruled the Hanseatic city for four years. The majority in the Senate was threatened several times because the conservative DP threatened to form a coalition with the Social Democrats.

On July 20, 1956, the Federal Council unanimously elected Sieveking in Bonn as its President for the business year beginning on September 7th.

Due to the fact that the Governing Mayor of Berlin Otto Suhr , who was elected as his successor as President of the Bundesrat, died a week before he took office, Sieveking was re-elected as President of the Bundesrat on September 6, 1957 , contrary to the Königstein Agreement . After the state of Berlin had an elected government again with the election of Willy Brandt on October 3, 1957, Sieveking resigned as President of the Federal Council on October 31, 1957, and Brandt was his successor on November 1.

In this way, Sieveking was the only President of the Federal Council to head the Federal Council for more than a year.

In June 1957 Hamburg and the Russian city of Saint Petersburg, then called Leningrad, agreed to establish friendly relations. The city partnership with St. Petersburg is the oldest in Hamburg.

In the township elections in 1957, the SPD again achieved an absolute majority, so that Sieveking's predecessor Max Brauer also became his successor. Sieveking himself was then a member of the Hamburg citizenship . In 1960 he was made an Honorary Senator of the University of Hamburg and in 1967 was awarded the Mayor Stolten Medal by the Hamburg Senate .

See also

Web links

Commons : Kurt Sieveking  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German gender book for the Sieveking family, 1966 edition, page 419
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae of Kurt Sieveking , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung: History of the CDU, accessed on January 20, 2019
  3. ↑ Eckart Kleßmann: MM Warburg & Co 1798-1998 , The history of a bank, Hamburg 1998, p. 103
  4. ↑ Werner Johe, Mayor Rudolf Petersen. a contribution to the history of the political reorganization in Hamburg 1945/46 , in: State Center for Political Education (ed.), Hamburg after the end of the Third Reich: political reconstruction 1945/46 to 1949. Six contributions , Hamburg 2000, p. 40, ISBN 3-929728-50-8 .
  5. ↑ Minutes of the plenary meeting of September 6, 1957 , www.bundesrat.de (pdf 800kB), accessed on January 20, 2019
  6. ↑ Honorary Senators of the University of Hamburg ( Memento from December 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Sieveking, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1986
Place of death Hamburg