Arnold Gohr

Arnold Gohr (12 October 1896 – 23 January 1983) was a German clerical worker who became a trade unionist and activist. After 1945 he entered mainstream politics in East Berlin. As the Soviet occupation zone evolved into a Soviet sponsored one-party dictatorship, he never joined the ruling party, remaining instead a leading "collaborationist" member of the eastern version of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU party). He became a party chairman and served between 1948 and 1958 as "deputy lord mayor" ("stellvertretender Oberbürgermeister") of Berlin, a period during which the increasingly divided city's constitutional status and future were contentious and ambiguous on a number of different levels.[1][2][3]

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  2. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs. "Gohr, Arnold * 12.10.1896, † 23.1.1983 CDU-Funktionär, Stellv. Oberbürgermeister von Berlin". Wer war wer in der DDR?. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin & Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Stadtstreich". Dreimal Friede. Der Spiegel (online). Retrieved 3 January 2020.