Basic Information
Name: Ernst Reuter
Nickname: Looks like people just called him Ernst
Born: July 29, 1889
Died: September 29, 1953
Nationality: German
Hometown: Apenrade, Province of Schleswig-Holstein (now Denmark)
WORK & EDUCATION
Occupation: Ernst started out as a teacher, and then he got drafted. He was wounded in Russia's Bolshevik Revolution, and when he came home, he got into politics. He served as the mayor of West Berlin from 1948 until his death in 1953.
Education: Philipps-Universitat Marburg; passed teaching exams
FAMILY & FRIENDS
Parents: Probably
Siblings: Possibly?
Spouses: Lotte Krappek (divorced in 1927); Hanna Kleinert
Children: Edzard (Etza) Reuter and two other children not important enough to be named anywhere (seriously, anywhere)
Friends: Louisa Schroeder; Otto Suer; communists, but only until Hitler and Stalin and those guys ruined it for him.—after that, he was a changed man
Foes: Communists, especially those responsible for attempting to starve his city and for exiling him and his family to Turkey
Analysis
Ernst Reuter was no shrinking violet.
In 1947, he was elected Lord Mayor of West Berlin, after he was injured in Russia's Bolshevik Revolution and taken prisoner, sent to a concentration camp by German Nazis, and exiled to Turkey for two years.
It's probably safe to say our guy didn't take any guff.
He was a loyal communist supporter, but he also was the leader of West Berlin during the Berlin blockade of 1948-49. His appeals to the city's Western allies during the blockade saved it from starvation, which was much appreciated by the population of the city.