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Alexander Pohlmann
Lord Mayor of Kattowitz
In office
February 1903 – January 1920
Member of the Provinziallandtag of the Province of Silesia
In office
1904/1909–1920
Member of the Prussian House of Representatives
In office
1915–1918
Member of the Weimar National Assembly
In office
1919–1920
Member of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic)
In office
1920–1922
President of Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg
In office
1920–1930
Personal details
Born(1865-09-10)10 September 1865
Graudenz, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia (Grudziądz, Poland)
Died5 October 1952(1952-10-05) (aged 87)
Freiburg, West Germany
Political partyProgressive People's Party (Germany)
German Democratic Party (DDP)
Occupationlawyer

Alexander Pohlmann (10 September 1865 – 5 October 1952) was a liberal German politician, mayor of Kattowitz (Katowice, Poland) and member of the Weimar National Assembly and the Weimar German parliament

Pohlmann was born in Graudenz, West Prussia, (Grudziądz, Poland), his father was the mayor of Graudenz. He studied law and administrative sciences in Freiburg, Leipzig and Berlin and started to work at the municipal administration of Frankfurt (Main) in 1896 and Posen (Poznań) in 1899.[1][2]

Pohlmann became the Lord Mayor of Kattowitz in 1903, a position he held until January 1920. He became a member of the Fortschrittliche Volkspartei and was elected as a member of the regional parliament of the Province of Silesia in 1904 (or 1909)[note 1] and member of the Prussian House of Representatives in 1915.[3]

After World War I he became a member of the German Democratic Party and was elected a member of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919 and the German Reichstag from 1920 to 1922. He served as the President of the Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg from 1920 to 1930. Pohlmann died in Freiburg in 1952.[1][2]

Notes

  1. ^ The parliamentarian handbook of 1919 gives 1904 as starting date while the handbook of 1920 states 1909

References

  1. ^ a b "biography" (in German). Magdeburg: University of Magdeburg.
  2. ^ a b Vierhaus, Rudolf (2006). biography (in German). Munich: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, Bd. 8. p. 8. ISBN 978-3-598-25030-9.
  3. ^ "Reichstags Abgeordnetendatenbank" (in German).
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