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Wilhelm Amsinck Burchard-Motz

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Wilhelm Amsinck Burchard-Motz (4 July 1878 in Hamburg, – 13 January 1963 in Hamburg) was a German lawyer and national-liberal politician. He served as Senator for Trade, Shipping and Industry of Hamburg from 1925 to 1933 and as Second Mayor from 1933 to 1934. Burchard-Motz was a member of the Nazi Party.[1]

He was the son of Hamburg's First Mayor Johann Heinrich Burchard, and Emily Amsinck. Following studies in Heidelberg, Lausanne and Cambridge, he worked as a lawyer in Hamburg from 1904, where he was a member of the Esche Schümann Commichau [de] (chambers, as in an association of barristers).[2]

In the 1950s, he was Vice President of the German Golf Association.[3]

References

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  1. Tanja Drössel, Die Engländer in Hamburg 1914 bis 1945, Cuvillier Verlag, 2008, p. 182
  2. Treue, Wilhelm [de; fr], Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Steuerberatung in zwei Jahrhunderten, Esche Schümann Commichau [de], Zur Geschichte einer hamburgischen Sozietät, 3. Auflage 1997, ISBN 3-00-001424-1, S. 28 ff., 53 ff.
  3. Der Spiegel 9 September 1959.
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