Alexander Pohlmann | |
Birth Date: | 10 September 1865 |
Birth Place: | Graudenz, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia (Grudziądz, Poland) |
Death Place: | Freiburg, West Germany |
Office1: | Lord Mayor of Kattowitz |
Term Start1: | February 1903 |
Term End1: | January 1920 |
Office2: | Member of the Provinziallandtag of the Province of Silesia |
Term Start2: | 1904/1909 |
Term End2: | 1920 |
Office3: | Member of the Prussian House of Representatives |
Term Start3: | 1915 |
Term End3: | 1918 |
Office4: | Member of the Weimar National Assembly |
Term Start4: | 1919 |
Term End4: | 1920 |
Office5: | Member of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic) |
Term Start5: | 1920 |
Term End5: | 1922 |
Office6: | President of Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg |
Term Start6: | 1920 |
Term End6: | 1930 |
Party: | Progressive People's Party (Germany) German Democratic Party (DDP) |
Occupation: | lawyer |
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)[3] and member of the Prussian House of Representatives in 1915.[4]
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]