Senate of Berlin

Lord Mayor Heinrich Sahm, elected in 1931, remained in office, and joined the NSDAP in November 1933, but resigned in 1935.

His power totally depended on Julius Lippert, on 25 March 1933 appointed as Prussian State Commissioner for Berlin.

[6] This was unacceptable to the Soviets, who engineered the establishment of an alternative city council in the sector under their direct control.

[8] On the model of the two Hanseatic city-states within the Federal Republic, Hamburg and Bremen,[9] the Berlin Senate, chosen by the parties represented in the Berlin parliament, was established to perform the functions of a state government,[10] with each of its members heading a department, equivalent to a state ministry, and a Regierender Bürgermeister (Governing or Executive Mayor) at its head and one Bürgermeister as his/her deputy.

[14] During the transition to a reunified Germany in 1990, a new Magistrat was elected in East Berlin and a Senate appointed in West Berlin, and they jointly governed as a Landesregierung aus Senat und Magistrat (state government of Senate and Magistrat, known popularly as the MagiSenat),[15][16] which initially met in alternate weeks at the Schöneberg town hall and the Red Town Hall.

With the completion of reunification on 3 October 1990, the MagiSenat became a unified Berlin Senate, no longer depending on Allied confirmation.