Alexander Pohlmann Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: biography. University of Magdeburg. Magdeburg. German.
  2. Book: biography . Rudolf . Vierhaus . Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, Bd. 8. Munich . 2006 . 8 . 978-3-598-25030-9. German.
  3. The parliamentarian handbook of 1919 gives 1904 as starting date while the handbook of 1920 states 1909
  4. Web site: Reichstags Abgeordnetendatenbank. German.