Ernst Reuter

Ernst Reuter
Reuter in 1951
Governing Mayor of Berlin
(West Berlin)
In office
1 February 1951 – 29 September 1953
PresidentTheodor Heuss
ChancellorKonrad Adenauer
Preceded byHimself (as Lord Mayor of Greater Berlin)
Succeeded byWalther Schreiber
Lord Mayor of Greater Berlin
(West Berlin only)
In office
24 June 1947 – 1 February 1951
Preceded byOtto Ostrowski
Louise Schroeder (acting)
Succeeded byHimself (as Governing Mayor of Berlin)
Chairman of the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
In office
October 1918 – March 1919
Succeeded byAdam Reichert
Personal details
Born
Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter

(1889-07-29)29 July 1889
Apenrade, Province of Schleswig-Holstein, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
(present-day Aabenraa, Denmark)
Died29 September 1953(1953-09-29) (aged 64)
West Berlin, West Germany
(present-day Berlin, Germany)
Resting placeWaldfriedhof Zehlendorf, Berlin
Political partyRSDRP(b) (1917–1919)
KPD (1921–1922)
USPD (1922)
Social Democratic Party (1922–1953)
SpouseHanna Kleinert
ChildrenEdzard Reuter
Alma materPhilipps-Universität Marburg

Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter (29 July 1889 – 29 September 1953) was the mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953, during the time of the Cold War. He played a significant role in unifying the divided sectors of Berlin and publicly and politically took a stand against the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union.