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City Farmer. Kaisen is a rare type-a big-city mayor who lives on and works his own farm. He has run Bremen since a summer's day in 1945, when a U.S. colonel came up to him as he tramped behind a plow-pulling pair of oxen. Would he care to be Bürgermeister of Bremen, the colonel asked. "No," Kaisen snorted through his mustache, "the Nazis destroyed this well-ordered state. They are the ones who should have to rebuild it." The colonel returned with some prominent Bürger. They persuaded Kaisen to accept...
...Socialist carpenter, Kaisen went to the party school in Berlin with Wilhelm Pieck, now puppet President of East Germany, grew up in Bremen's Socialist politics, was clapped into jail by the Nazis, released after two months and ordered to stay out of his city. Kaisen went no farther than the bleak moor, seven miles from Bremen, where the U.S. colonel found...
...Hustler. Bürgermeister Kaisen took over a city 65% destroyed. More than 5,900,000 cu. yds. of rubble was hauled away, and Bremen was rebuilt on modern lines. Kaisen hastened recovery by going to Washington and persuading the U.S. to remove an allied restriction on shipbuilding, wheedled $20 million of U.S. aid for shipyard repairs...
When his party took a licking in the Lower Saxony state elections last spring, Kaisen concluded that it had harped too much on national issues and foreign policy, decided to fight Bremen's election on strictly local issues, even hustled tubby Socialist Chief Erich Ollenhauer out of town when he came to support the campaign...
...strategy paid off with 52 of the 100 Bürgerschaft (city-state parliament) seats for Kaisen's Socialists, a gain of six and a clear majority for the first time. Christian Democrats were held to 18 seats. The election entitled Bürgermeister Kaisen to convert Bremen's coalition government into a wholly Socialist affair, but instead he invited Christian Democrats and Free Democrats, their right-wing cousins, to go right on helping him run Bremen...