# Rudolf Ross

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{{Short description|German teacher and politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Rudolf Ross
| image               = WP Rudolf Roß.jpg
| caption             = 
| order               = 
| office3             = [First Mayor of Hamburg](/source/First_Mayor_of_Hamburg) and <br/>[President of the Hamburg Senate](/source/Government_of_Hamburg)
| term_start3         = 1 January 1930
| term_end3           = 31 December 1931
| predecessor3        = Carl Wilhelm Petersen
| successor3          = Carl Wilhelm Petersen
| office              = [Second Mayor of Hamburg](/source/List_of_mayors_of_Hamburg)
| term_start          = 5 April 1928
| term_end            = 31 December 1929
| term_start2         = 1 January 1932
| term_end2           = 3 March 1933
| succeeding          = 
| predecessor         = {{Interlanguage link|Max Schramm|de}}
| predecessor2        = Carl Wilhelm Petersen
| successor           = [Carl Wilhelm Petersen](/source/Carl_Wilhelm_Petersen)
| successor2          = [Wilhelm Amsinck Burchard-Motz](/source/Wilhelm_Amsinck_Burchard-Motz)
| birth_date          = 22 March 1872
| birth_place         = Hamburg, Germany
| death_date          = {{death date and age|16 February 1951|22 March 1872}}
| death_place         = Hamburg, Germany
| party               = Social Democratic Party (SPD)
}}
'''Rudolf Adolf Wilhelm Ross''' (also styled '''Roß''', 22 March 1872 &ndash; 16 February 1951) was a [German](/source/Germans) teacher, politician of the [Social Democratic Party](/source/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany) (SPD), member of the [Hamburg Parliament](/source/Hamburg_Parliament) and [first Mayor](/source/List_of_mayors_of_Hamburg) of [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg).

== Early life ==
Ross was born on 22 March 1872 in Hamburg and became a teacher in 1892. He served in the [First World War](/source/World_War_I) from 1914 until 1918. In 1923 he married his wife Frieda, née Hinsch (1899&ndash;1975).<ref name=Lehberger>{{citation |title=Rudolf Ross |volume=Hamburgische Biografie-Personenlexikon, Band 2 |author=Reiner Lehberger |editor = Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke |date=2001 |publisher=Wallenstein Verlag |language=German |isbn= 978-3-7672-1366-1}}</ref>

== Political career ==
In 1919, Ross was elected as a member of the [Hamburg Parliament](/source/Hamburg_Parliament) and served until 1933.  He was President of the diet from 1920 until 1928. In 1928 the parliament elected Ross to the [Senate of Hamburg](/source/Senate_of_Hamburg) and became Second Mayor, 1930 &ndash; 1931 he was [First Mayor of Hamburg](/source/Government_of_Hamburg). On 3 March 1933 he resigned from the Hamburg Parliament under protest to the [Machtergreifung](/source/Machtergreifung)&mdash;the [Nazi](/source/Nazism) takeover of power in [Weimar Germany](/source/Weimar_Republic) on 30 January 1933.<ref name=Lehberger/>

== Death ==
On 16 February 1951, Ross died after a long and severe illness in Hamburg.<ref name=Lehberger/>

== Works ==
* {{cite book|title=Vorschläge zur Reform der Lehrerbildung in Hamburg |publisher=Senger |location=Hamburg |date=1913 |language=German |oclc= 257912602}}
* {{cite book |title=Hamburg während der Weimarer Republik : Reden und Aufsätze, anlässlich der Taufe des Dampfers "Bürgermeister Ross" |publisher=Auerdruck |location=Hamburg |date=1948 |language=German |oclc= 73707056}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{DNB portal|133739309|TYP=}}
* {{PM20|FID=pe/014998}}

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Category:1872 births
Category:1951 deaths
Category:Mayors of Hamburg
Category:Members of the Hamburg Parliament
Category:Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians

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