Wilhelm Kaisen | |
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President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen | |
In office 1 August 1945 – 17 July 1965 | |
Deputy | Jules Eberhard Noltenius Adolf Ehlers Willy Dehnkamp |
Preceded by | Erich Vagts |
Succeeded by | Willy Dehnkamp |
Personal details | |
Born | Hamburg, German Empire | 22 May 1887
Died | 19 December 1979 Bremen, West Germany | (aged 92)
Political party | Social Democratic Party |
Spouse | Helene Kaisen |
Children | 4 |
Carl Wilhelm Kaisen (22 May 1887 – 19 December 1979) was a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who served as the 2nd President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen from 1945 to 1965. In 1958/59 he served as the 10th President of the Bundesrat. He became a symbolic figure of the German reconstruction in Bremen after 1945.