|Heinrich Sahm, Berlin 1932| |President of the Senate of the
Free City of Danzig| 6 December 1920 – 9 January 1931 |Succeeded
by||Ernst Ziehm| |Mayor of Berlin| 14 April 1931 – 18 December
1935 |Preceded by||Arthur Scholz| |Succeeded by||Oskar Maretzky|
|Born||12 September 1877 Anklam, Province of Pomerania |Died||3
October 1939 Sahm was born in Anklam, present-day Mecklenburg-
Vorpommern and educated as a lawyer, in 1906 he became a member
of the Magdeburg city council and served from 1912 to 1919 as a
deputy mayor of Bochum. In the meantime he also worked in the
government of occupied Warsaw during World War I. In 1919 he was
elected mayor of Danzig (Gdańsk), a city that had formerly
belonged to the German Empire. In the same year Danzig and the
surrounding territory was to be severed from Germany and turned
into a city-state according to the Versailles treaty. After the
establishment of the Free City of Danzig in 1920, Sahm became
first President of the Senate, the de facto head of state
beneath the High Co