Hans Lohmeyer


Hans Lohmeyer was a German jurist, Lord Mayor of Königsberg.

Life

By the time the war ended he had already become involved with the Evangelical Church in Königsberg. Following a period of ethnic cleansing Königsberg was no longer a German city, however. Within postwar Germany Lohmeyer settled in what had become the Soviet occupation zone and became a :de:Synode |synod member of the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia. He also belonged to the so-called Prussian Union of churches. In 1951 he co-founded the "Association for Communal Studies", becoming its chairman in 1963.
Since 1931 he was married with German actress Gerda Müller. He is buried in Berlin.

Selected works