Ernst Reuter

Ernst Reuter
Governing Mayor of Berlin (West Berlin)
In office 1 February 1951 – 29 September 1953
President	Theodor Heuss
Chancellor	Konrad Adenauer
Preceded by	Himself (as Lord Mayor of Greater Berlin)
Succeeded by	Walther Schreiber
Lord Mayor of Greater Berlin (West Berlin only)
In office 24 June 1947 – 1 February 1951
Preceded by	Otto Ostrowski Louise Schroeder (acting)
Succeeded by	Himself (as Governing Mayor of Berlin)
Chairman of the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
In office October 1918 – March 1919
Succeeded by	Adam Reichert
Personal details
Born	Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter (1889-07-29)29 July 1889 Apenrade, Province of Schleswig-Holstein, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (Present-day Aabenraa, Denmark)
Died	29 September 1953(1953-09-29) (aged 64) West Berlin, West Germany (Present-day Berlin, Germany)
Resting place	Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf
Political party	Social Democratic Party (1922-1953) RSDRP(b) (1917-1919) KPD (1921-1922) USPD (1922)
Spouse	Hanna Kleinert
Children	Edzard Reuter
Alma mater	Philipps-Universität Marburg

Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter (29 July 1889 – 29 September 1953) was the mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953, during the time of the Cold War. He 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.