Friedrich Ackermann

Friedrich Ackermann (1866 to 1931) was a German politician and jurist who was high mayor of Szczecin, then Stettin, from 1907 until his death. Born at Bądle in the Province of Prussia into a family of civil servants from Mecklenburg, he studied natural science in Zürich and from 1886 law at Munich, Leipzig and Göttingen, where he took a doctorate in jurisprudence. He became a judicial trainee in 1890, was a councillor in Gdańsk from 1896 and was mayor of Rathenow for three months in 1907. From 1 April 1907 he held the office of high mayor of Szczecin for more than 23 years, modernising the seaport and transport network and presiding over the expansion of the city to include modern neighbourhoods.