BERLIN
CITY OF BERLIN 1848 - 1945
The town of Berlin is first mentioned in 1244. It became the permanent residence of the Electors of Brandenburg in 1470. As the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia since 1701, the city also became the capital of the German Empire in 1871. In 1881 Berlin - which till then had been a part of the Regierungsbezirk (district) Potsdam in the Province of Brandenburg - became a separate City district directly subordinated to the provincial government. In 1920 the city was merged with 7 neighbouring towns (Charlottenburg, Köpenick, Lichtenberg, Neukölln, Schöneberg, Spandau and Wilmersdorf) and some other areas to form "Gross-Berlin" (Great-Berlin) (1) In 1936 Berlin was detached from the province of Brandenburg to become a separate administrative unit of Prussia. (1) Since 1912 Berlin, Charlottenburg, Neukölln, Lichtenberg, Schöneberg, Spandau, Wilmersdorf and several surrounding villages had already formed a Cooperative Alliance handling common affairs such as public transports, etc. Directors of the "Purpose Alliance" Great-Berlin Direktoren des Zweckverbands Gross-Berlin 1912 - 1918 Karl Friedrich Steininger 1864 - 1918 Otto Fischbeck 1865 - 1939 1918 - 1920 Erich Giese* __________________________________________________________________________________REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT
Commissioner of State Staatskommissar 1933 - 1937 Julius Lippert 1895 - 1956 City Presidents Stadtspräsidenten 1937 - 1940 Julius Lippert s.a. 1940 - 1944 Ludwig Steeg* 1894 - 1945 1944 - 1945 Paul Joseph Goebbels 1897 - 1945 __________________________________________________________________________________CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Since 1809 the administration of Berlin was divided between : - the two - later three - Mayors in charge of the general administration, - the Police President in charge of police and security affairs Chief Mayors Oberbürgermeister 1834 - 1848 Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick 1797 - 1882 1848 - 1850 Franz Christian Naunyn (2) 1799 - 1860 1850 - 1862 Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick (2x) 1862 - 1872 Karl Theodor Seydel 1812 - 1873 1872 - 1878 Arthur Heinrich Ludolf Johnson Hobrecht 1824 - 1912 1878 - 1892 Maximilian "Max" Franz August von Forckenbeck 1821 - 1892 1892 - 1898 Friedrich Robert Otto Hans Zelle 1829 - 1901 1898 - 1912 Martin K. A. Kirschner 1842 - 1912 1912 - 1920 Adolf Wermuth 1855 - 1927 1920 - 1929 Gustav August Johann Heinrich Böss 1873 - 1946 1929 - 1931 Otto Wilhelm Arthur Scholtz* 1871 - 1935 1931 - 1935 Heinrich Sahm 1877 - 1939 1935 - 1937 Oskar Maretzky 1881 - 1937 - 1940 Julius Lippert s.a. 1940 - 1945 Ludwig Steeg* s.a. Police Presidents Polizeipräsidenten 1847 - 1848 Julius Freiherr von Minutoli 1805 - 1860 1848 Heinrich Moritz Albert von Bardeleben 1814 - 1880 1848 - 1856 Carl Ludwig Friedrich von Hinckeldey 1805 - 1856 1856 - 1861 ... Freiherr von Zedlitz-Neukirch 1861 ... von Winter 1862 - 1867 Otto Friedrich Karl von Bermuth 1867 - 1872 Günther Karl Lothar von Wurmb 1872 - 1885 Guido von Maday 1810 - 1892 1885 - 1895 Bernhard Ludwig Eduard Freiherr von Richthofen 1836 - 1895 1895 - 1902 Hubert Ludwig von Windheim 1857 - 1935 1903 - 1908 Georg von Borries 1908 - 1909 Ernst von Stubenrauch 1909 - 1916 Traugott Achatz von Jagow 1865 - 1941 1916 - 1918 Heinrich von Oppen 1918 - 1919 Robert Emil Eichhorn 1863 - 1925 1919 - 1920 Eugen Ernst 1920 - 1925 Wilhelm Richter 1925 - 1926 Albert Grzesinski 1879 - 1947 1926 - 1930 Karl Friedrich Zörgiebel 1878 - 1961 1930 - 1932 Albert Grzesinski (2x) 1932 Kurt Melcher 1881 - 1970 1933 - 1935 Magnus von Levetzow 1871 - 1939 1935 - 1944 SA-Gruppenf. Wolf Heinrich Graf von Helldorf, executed 1896 - 1944 1944 - 1945 SS-Gruppenf. Kurt Göhrum 1891 - 1953 (2) In Mar - Nov 1848 Berlin was a major center of revolutionary agitation in Prussia. Royal authority, law and order were restored by LtGen. Friedrich Heinrich Ernst von Wrangel (1784-1877) who was 'martial law administrator' of the city from Nov 1848 to Jul 1849 __________________________________________________________________________________PARTY LEADER
Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Berlin 1928 - 1945 Paul Joseph Goebbels, Gauleiter of Berlin-Brandenburg since 1926 s.a.
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