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{{Short description|German politician (1887–1973)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Max Brauer
| image               = Max Brauer 1927.jpg
| caption             = Brauer in 1927
| order               =
| office              = [[Government of Hamburg#Executive|First Mayor of Hamburg]]
| president           = [[Theodor Heuss]]
| chancellor          = [[Konrad Adenauer]]
| term_start          = 22 November 1946
| term_end            = 2 December 1953
| predecessor         = [[Rudolf Hieronymus Petersen]]
| successor           = [[Kurt Sieveking]]
| president2           = [[Theodor Heuss]]<br />[[Heinrich Lübke]]
| chancellor2          = [[Konrad Adenauer]]
| term_start2         = 4 December 1957
| term_end2           = 31 December 1960
| succeeding2         =
| predecessor2        = Kurt Sieveking
| successor2          = [[Paul Nevermann]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|df=y|1887|9|3}}
| birth_place         = [[Ottensen]], Germany
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|df=y|1973|2|2|1887|9|3}}
| death_place         = [[Hamburg]], Germany
| birthname           =
| party               = [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic Party (SPD)]]
}}
'''Max Julius Friedrich Brauer''' (3 September 1887 – 2 February 1973) was a German politician of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic Party (SPD)]] and the first elected [[List of mayors of Hamburg|First Mayor]] of [[Hamburg]] after [[World War II]].

== Life ==
In 1923, Brauer was mayor of the independent city of [[Altona, Hamburg|Altona]], Prussia, incorporated into Hamburg after 1937. Brauer fled the Nazi regime to the United States in 1933 with a passport of a friend.<ref name=verg>{{Citation |last=Verg |first=Erik |last2=Verg |first2=Martin |title=Das Abenteuer, das Hamburg heißt |year=2007 |pages=163, 167, 184 |location=Hamburg |publisher=Ellert&Richter |edition=4th |isbn=978-3-8319-0137-1 |language=de}}</ref> In 1934 Brauer's German citizenship was revoked. In July 1946 he came back to Hamburg working for the [[American Federation of Labor]].<ref name=hhlex>{{Citation |last=Koplitzsch |first=Franklin |title=Brauer, Max |encyclopedia=Hamburg Lexikon |pages=82–83 |publisher=Ellert&Richter |year=2005 |edition=3 |isbn=3-8319-0179-1 |language=de}}</ref> In October 1946 after the election of the [[Hamburg Parliament]], Brauer was elected as the First Mayor of Hamburg. After Brauer complained in a letter to the British forces about the supply shortfall in Hamburg, the British Governor [[Vaughan Berry]] stopped the heating in the officers' mess until there were a solution.<ref name=verg />

On 16 October 1949, the {{ill|second Hamburg Parliament election|de|Bürgerschaftswahl in Hamburg 1949}} took place where Brauer's party, the SPD, received 65 of the 120 seats. His new Hamburg government ("{{ill|Senat Brauer II|de}}") started February 1950. In October 1953, the next election took place. The SPD received only 58 of the 120 seats; an alliance including the CDU received the other 62 seats. [[Kurt Sieveking]] (CDU) became Brauer's successor; the {{ill|Senate Sieveking|de|Senat Sieveking}} started in December 1953.
On {{ill|10 November 1957|de|Bürgerschaftswahl in Hamburg 1957}}, the SPD received 69 of the 120 seats. Brauer and his {{ill|third Senate|de|Senat Brauer III}} started working. Brauer had promised to [[Paul Nevermann]] (born 1902) that he would transfer power to him before the end of the term. The 'era Brauer' ended 20 December 1960 with extensive ceremonies.

By the [[1961 West German federal election|West German federal election]] in September 1961, Brauer was elected as member of the German [[Bundestag]]<ref name=hhlex /> in {{ill|Bundestagswahlkreis Hamburg IV|de|Bundestagswahlkreis Hamburg-Nord I}} (later transformed, see [[Hamburg-Nord (electoral district)|Hamburg-Nord]]). He was not a candidate for the [[1965 West German federal election|next federal election]] in 1965; his successor in his electoral ward [[Hans Apel]] (1932–2011) became an important SPD politician and minister (finance, defence).

Brauer is buried in [[Altona Main Cemetery]].

== Honours ==
In 1960, Brauer was given the [[List of Honorary Citizens of Hamburg|honorary citizen award of Hamburg]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Hamburgische Ehrenbürger |author=Staff |url=http://www.hamburg.de/ehrenbuerger/ |publisher=[[Government of Hamburg#Ministries|State Chancellery]] |access-date=13 August 2008 |language=de}}</ref> The street ''Max-Brauer-Allee'' in the [[Altona, Hamburg|Altona]] borough is named after him.

== Works ==
* Brauer, Max. 1952. ''Consecration of the memorial for the Hamburg air raid victims:'' [speech at the inauguration on 16 August 1952 at [[Ohlsdorf Cemetery]] of the memorial for the [[Bombing of Hamburg in World War II|Hamburg air raid]] victims.] {{OCLC|78551498}}

== References ==
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* http://www.hans-bredow-institut.de/nwdr/zz/Schwermer/artikel.htm
* http://library.fes.de/fulltext/afs/htmrez/80705.htm
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