biography
pronunciation:
[smit]
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| lived:
| (1773–1857)
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| biography:
| German politician, born in Bremen, NW Germany. From 1800 he served in the town council of Bremen and became mayor there (1821–49, 1852–7). In 1813 he secured the recognition of the independent status of Bremen, Hamburg, and Lübeck by the Great Powers, and founded Bremerhaven in 1827. |
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