| Birth: | Mar. 16, 1866
Keokuk
Lee County
Iowa, USA | | Death: | Feb. 4, 1942
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
California, USA | 
Herman C Baehr, Former Mayor of Cleveland, was a businessman and politician that served as Cuyahoga County Recorder from 1904 to 1909. He was the Mayor of Cleveland from 1910 to 1912. He was an officer of the Cleveland-Sandusky Brewing Corporation, vice-president of the Forest City Savings & Loan, and a director of Cleveland Trust bank. Baehr was born in Keokuk, Iowa. He was the son of Jacob and Magdalena Zipf Baehr. His parents lived in Cleveland from 1850 until 1962 before moving to Iowa and then returning here shortly after the Civil War. He received his education in public schools. He quit school at the age of 14 to join his father's brewing company. He later attended Lehman's Scientific Academy at Worms-on-the-Rhine, and graduated from the First Scientific Station of New York in 1887. Baehr received an M.B. degree. After returning to Cleveland, Baehr was an official of the Baehr Brewing Co. which his father had founded and became secretary and treasurer of the Cleveland-Sandusky Brewing Corporation when it took over Baehr Brewing. He married Rose Schulte in 1898. He was interested in the Republican party, and was eventually elected county recorder, serving for 5 years. He defeated Tom L. Johnson for mayor in 1909. He didn't run again in 1912, ending his term completely. Instead, he became the first vice-president and director of the Forest City Savings & Trust Co. He became a director of the Cleveland Trust Bank when it took over Forest City Savings. He was also president of the Langenau Mfg. Company. Baehr and his wife had no children and he died in Los Angeles, California.
Works Cited
"The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History." Case Western Education. 11 July 1997. Case Western Reserve University. 18 July 2007 .
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Representative from Ohio, 1910-1912.
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