Hans Lohmeyer

Hans Lohmeyer (23 June 1881 in Thorn – 28 February 1968 in Berlin) was a German jurist, Lord Mayor of Königsberg and the husband of Gerda Müller 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 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" ("Verein für Kommunalwissenschaften"), becoming its chairman in 1963.

Lohmeyer in 1930, drawing by Emil Stumpp