Charles Brode was a merchant and property owner in 19th Century Los Angeles, California.He was a member of that city's governing body, the Los Angeles Common Council, from December 5, 1878, to March 13, 1879, when he resigned.[1] Brode was born in Boreck, Posen, Prussia, on February 6, 1836, and at the age of nineteen he emigrated to Australia, where he was a miner for seven years.[2] He moved to Los Angeles in 1868 and opened a grocery store on South Spring Street, where the Parisian Suit and Cloak Company was later situated.[2] Brode was a director of the German-American Savings Bank and of the Los Angeles Soap Company.