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He was mayor during the postwar British occupation.

He established a good working relationship with the British military authorities, using them to neutralize the workers ' and soldiers ' council that had become an alternative base of power for the city's left wing.

He flirted with Rhenish separatism ( a Rhenish state as part of Germany, but outside Prussia ).

During the Weimar Republic, he was president of the Prussian State Council ( Preußischer Staatsrat ) from 1922 to 1933, which was the representative of the Prussian cities and provinces.