Willi Brundert

Willi Brundert (12 June 1912 - 7 May 1970) was a German politician. He served in several political roles in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany from 1946 until his arrest and imprisonment in 1950. After being released from prison in 1957, Brundert relocated to the state of Hesse in West Germany, where he served in the state parliament and as Mayor of Frankfurt-am-Main from 1964 until his death in 1970. Biography Brundert was born into a family with a history of SPD membership. His father was a typesetter. In 1930, Brundert joined the SPD and the group Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold. He studied law and political science at the University of Halle (where he was president of the university SPD organisation between 1931 and 1933). He received his doctorate at the University of Hamburg in 1935. Brundert worked as a tax lawyer at an auditing firm in Berlin for some time. He was a part of the Nazi resistance group the Kreisau Circle, before being drafted into the Germany navy. He was imprisoned as a British prisoner of war between 1944 and 1946; he served this time at the Featherstone Park Prisoner of War Camp. When Brundert returned to Germany after his release in 1946, he became the undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy as well as the Deputy Minister of Economy and Transport in the Saxony-Anhalt state government.