Hans Lohmeyer

Hans Lohmeyer (23 June 1881 in Thorn – 28 February 1968 in Berlin) was a German jurist, Lord Mayor of Königsberg.

Lohmeyer in 1930, drawing by Emil Stumpp

Life

By the time the war ended he had already become involved with the Evangelical Church in Königsberg. Following a period of ethnic cleansing Königsberg was no longer a German city, however. Within postwar Germany Lohmeyer settled in what had become the Soviet occupation zone and became a synod member of the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia. He also belonged to the so-called Prussian Union of churches. In 1951 he co-founded the "Association for Communal Studies" ("Verein für Kommunalwissenschaften"), becoming its chairman in 1963.

Since 1931 he was married with German actress Gerda Müller. He is buried in Berlin.[1]

Selected works
  • Zentralismus oder Selbstverwaltung. Ein Beitrag zur Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsreform. Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag, Berlin 1928, IV, 87 S.
  • Die Politik des Zweiten Reiches 1870–1918. 2 Bände. Berlin: Neff, Band 1: 1939, 555 S.; Band 2: 1939, 578 S.
  • Die städtischen Betriebe. Königsberg 1924
  • Rückblick auf meine Amtszeit, 1957
  • Meine Königsberger Jahre, 1961

Literature
  • Bauwelt , vol 2/1925, p. 28
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft vol. I Politiker, Teilband 3: I–L. Heidelberg 1999, S. 309–311.
  • Ludwig Luckemeyer (1987), "Lohmeyer, Hans", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German), 15, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 133; (full text online)
  • Eckert Vogel: Dem Königsberger Oberbürgermeister Dr. Hans Lohmeyer zum Gedächtnis. Königsberger Bürgerbrief 65 (2005), p. 59 f
  • Hans Lohmeyer Munzinger archive 37/1956 of 3 September 1956
gollark: I don't really like the current world in some ways either, but I think markets are generally a fairly okay system if managed in some ways.
gollark: Okay, continue.
gollark: Where are the actual incentives in anarchism? It seems that you basically just expect people to embark on giant construction projects and give resources out of the goodness of their hearts or something. In capitalism you actually have a decent direct reason to do that - your company can make more profit if it makes a new silicon fab or something, so you'll get money yourself, and you can get resources from other companies because you both get benefits for trading that way.
gollark: Well, that's just wrong.
gollark: You could do a *bit* of poor-people-saving.

References
  1. Königsberger Bürgerbrief XVII (1980), p. 38
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