Kurt Blaum

After the end of the war, Blaum was active in the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior, where he helped draft laws.

Blaum served as the mayor of Hanau until 1 April 1933, when he was removed due to his liberal sympathies.

After briefly serving in the Frankfurt Armaments Command in 1941/42 as a captain of the reserves, and working as a plant manager at car factory Oberursel, Blaum was reinstated as mayor of Hanau on 2 April 1945, on orders of the American military government.

He lost the election to Walter Kolb,[3] the SPD candidate and former chief municipal director of Düsseldorf.

He worked as an advisor on the German currency reform of 1948, and from 1946 to 1962 was president of the Polytechnic Society in Frankfurt am Main as well as of the Hessian Red Cross.