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Woman Elected Mayor Of Berlin - Frau Schroeder, Aged Sixty, Becomes Active City Leader -- Frau Louise Schroeder, conferring with a visitor in her office after her election as Mayor of the city.The city assembly gave Berlin its first woman chief of the municipal government when it confirmed the appointment of Frau Louise Schroeder, aged sixty, as amting Lord Mayor.She succeeds Dr. Ferdinand Friedensburg, who assumed the position when Dr. Otto Ostrowski resigned after a disagreement with his colleagues in the Social Democratic Party. May 11, 1947.