Hugo Heimann was a German publisher and Social Democratic politician.
10 Facts About Hugo Heimann
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Hugo Heimann started an apprenticeship as a bookseller and worked at Nicholas Trubner publishing house in London from 1880 to 1884.
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Hugo Heimann became Trubner's private secretary and returned to Berlin after Trubner's death.
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Hugo Heimann's publishing house became the official publisher for juridical publications of the Reichsjustizamt, especially regarding the new nationwide civil law code, the Burgerliches Gesetzbuch.
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Hugo Heimann was a member of the Berlin city council from 1900 to 1932, his fraction's chairman from 1911 to 1925 and the city council chairman from 1919 to 1932.
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Hugo Heimann was one of the first eight Social Democrats elected as members of the Prussian House of Representatives under the terms of the Prussian three-class franchise in 1908.
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From 1920 to 1932 Hugo Heimann represented the Berlin constituency in the Reichstag, he was almost perpetually chairman of the budget committee.
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In 1939 Hugo Heimann emigrated via the United Kingdom to the United States, where both of his sons, Leonhard and Eduard Hugo Heimann, lived.
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Hugo Heimann did not return to Germany after World War II and died in New York City in 1951.
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Hugo Heimann became the 56th honorary citizen of Berlin in 1926.