17 Facts About Ernst Reuter

Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter was the mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953, during the time of the Cold War.

Ernst Reuter 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.

Ernst Reuter spent his childhood days in Leer where a public square is named after him.

Ernst Reuter attended the universities of Munster and Marburg where he completed his studies in 1912 and passed the examinations as a teacher.

Ernst Reuter opposed Kaiser Wilhelm's regime at the start of the First World War.

Ernst Reuter embraced a position on the left wing of the party endorsing an open rebellion in March 1921 in central Germany and placed himself hereby in opposition to the leader of the party, Paul Levi.

Ernst Reuter moved briefly to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany, and then returned to the Social Democrats for good.

In 1926, Ernst Reuter entered services in the government of Berlin and was responsible for transportation.

From 1931 until 1933, Ernst Reuter was the mayor of Magdeburg where he fought lack of housing and jobs due to the economic crisis.

Ernst Reuter was elected as a member of the Reichstag.

Ernst Reuter is most notable for his stance during the Cold War in Berlin.

Ernst Reuter became their spokesman and leader, a symbolic figure of the Free Berlin.

The airlift saved the city from starvation, and Ernst Reuter became only the second German postwar politician to be placed on the cover of Time magazine.

In 1953 Ernst Reuter established the "Burgermeister-Ernst Reuter-Stiftung" to assist refugees coming to West-Berlin.

Ernst Reuter's funeral was attended by more than 1 million people and he was honored with an Ehrengrab in the Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf.

Ernst Reuter was a younger half brother of Otto Sigfrid Ernst Reuter, a volkisch-religious ideologue.

Ernst Reuter was married in 1920, and he and his wife Lotte had two children, Hella, and Harry.