Senate Petersen

Senate Petersen appointed May 15, 1945
mayor	Rudolf Petersen	CDU (from June 1946)
Deputy Mayor	Adolph Schönfelder	SPD
Legal Office	Oscar Toepffer (June 28 to November 14, 1945)	independent
	Rudolf Petersen
Combing	Bernhard Velthuysen (until July 26, 1945)
	Hermann Willink (August 3, 1945 to February 4, 1946)	independent
	Walter Dudek (from February 19, 1946)	SPD
Health administration and state youth welfare office	Heinrich Eisenbarth (until November 9, 1945)	SPD
	Friedrich Dettmann	KPD
Social administration	Oskar Martini (until October 31, 1945)
	Paul Nevermann (from November 6, 1945)	SPD
Administration for trade, shipping * and trade	Hans EB Kruse (until November 27, 1945)	CDU
	Max Ketels (from December 4, 1945)	CDU
School administration and office for physical exercises	Heinrich Landahl	SPD
Cultural administration	Hans-Harder Biermann-Ratjen (until November 27, 1945)
	Ascan Klée Gobert (from January 4, 1946)	CDU
State Food Office and State Economic Office	Otto Borgner	SPD
Construction management	Max Leuteritz (until February 23, 1946)	SPD
	Gerd Bucerius (from February 26, 1946)	CDU (from June 1946)
Tourist Office	Christian Koch (November 30, 1945 to April 8, 1946)	FDP
Office for Reparation and Refugee Aid	Franz Heitgres (from November 13, 1945)	KPD

* Since this is a historical name, the old spelling of shipping was retained.