He served as Senator for Trade, Shipping and Industry of Hamburg from 1925 to 1933 and as Second Mayor from 1933 to 1934.
[1] He was the son of Hamburg First Mayor Johann Heinrich Burchard and Emily Amsinck.
Following studies in Heidelberg, Lausanne and Cambridge, he worked as lawyer in Hamburg from 1904 where he was a member of the Esche Schümann Commichau (chambers, as in association of barristers).
[2] In the 1950s, he was Vice President of the German Golf Association.
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