13 Facts About Max Wallraf

Ludwig Theodor Ferdinand Max Wallraf was a German politician who served as mayor of Cologne from 1907 to 1917.

Max Wallraf was State Minister of the Interior from 1917 to 1918.

Max Wallraf's parents were the lawyer and legal administrator Reiner Ludwig Wallraf and Wilhelmine Wallraf, Berghaus.

Max Wallraf obtained his at the Apostelgymnasium in 1878, and studied law at the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg and Leipzig from 1878 to 1881.

Max Wallraf became a trainee at the Oberlandesgericht Koln court in Cologne in 1881.

Max Wallraf passed his state examination in Berlin in December 1886.

On 13 July 1907, after lengthy negotiations involving his father-in-law Joseph Pauli, Max Wallraf was unanimously elected mayor of Cologne, as a Catholic following two Protestant mayors and as a compromise candidate who was acceptable to all factions.

Max Wallraf resigned in August 1917 when he was offered the position of state secretary in the Ministry of the Interior and was replaced as mayor by Konrad Adenauer, who had worked as his deputy before and who was married to Wallraf's niece Emma Weyer.

From 1921 to 1924, Max Wallraf was a member of the Landtag of Prussia and from 1924 to 1930 of the Reichstag, representing the national-conservative German National People's Party.

Max Wallraf was elected President of the Reichstag on 28 May 1924, after the May 1924 German federal election, as the DNVP together with the Agricultural League was the largest parliamentary group.

Max Wallraf was replaced by his predecessor Paul Lobe on 7 January 1925 after the December 1924 German federal election.

Max Wallraf became a member of the Nazi Party on 1 May 1933.

In 1897, Max Wallraf got married for a second time, to Anna Pauli, the daughter of landowner and president of the Rhineland Agricultural Society, Joseph Pauli.