Wilhelm Kaisen

Wilhelm Kaisen
President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen
In office
1 August 1945 – 17 July 1965
DeputyJules Eberhard Noltenius
Adolf Ehlers
Willy Dehnkamp
Preceded byErich Vagts
Succeeded byWilly Dehnkamp
Personal details
Born(1887-05-22)22 May 1887
Hamburg, German Empire
Died19 December 1979(1979-12-19) (aged 92)
Bremen, West Germany
Political partySocial Democratic Party
SpouseHelene Kaisen
Children4

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.