Adam Grünbaum

Adam Barthold Gustav Grünbaum (born November 1 ^{. Jul} / 14. November 1904 ^greg. In Tbilisi , Russian Empire ; † 10. May 1979 in Munich ) was a Baltic German lawyer.

Life

Grünbaum studied law at the University of Dorpat from 1923 to 1927 . He graduated cum laude . From 1927 to 1932 he worked in the law firm of the Estonian lawyer and politician Mihkel Pung . From 1932 to 1936 he worked in the office of his fellow student, the Estonian-Jewish lawyer Malka Schliefstein , who had previously also worked for Pung. From 1935 until the occupation of Estonia by the Red Army in 1940 was Green Tree Director in Tallinn resident corporation Laferme , one of the largest tobacco and cigarette factories in the country. In 1940 Grünbaum began a brief activity for the German legation in Tallinn . The embassy was closed in August 1940. In 1941 he went to Germany . He was initially employed as an economic consultant in Posen in the Reichsgau Wartheland . He later worked for the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories in Tallinn, Riga and Berlin . From 1943 to 1945 he served in the army (Wehrmacht) . Grünbaum survived the Second World War and from 1947 to 1950 he was head of the economic aid committee in Augsburg . From 1951 he worked for the US armed forces in Germany . He continued to support the Baltic Germans in the Federal Republic . He was chairman of the Bavarian regional association of the German-Baltic Society and later for many years Secretary General of the Baltic Society in Germany. Grünbaum was editor of the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Baltic Leben . From 1959 to 1979 he was chairman of the Fraternitas Normannia, which had come to West Germany from St. Petersburg via Dorpat and Reval .

Honors

Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1978)

literature

Adam Grünbaum † . Baltic letters 32 (1979), No. 6 (368), p. 9
Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Adam Grünbaum. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Web links

@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.eha.ee( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Biographical details of the Estonian Historical Archives (Estonian) )

Individual evidence

↑ History of the German diplomatic mission in Tallinn ( Memento of the original dated November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Walter Brem: Fraternitas Normannia 1909–2009 St. Petersburg – Dorpat – Germany , 2nd edition. Marktleuthen 2009.
↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 5, January 9, 1979.

personal data
SURNAME	Grünbaum, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Grünbaum, Adam Barthold Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Baltic lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 14, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tbilisi , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	May 10, 1979
Place of death	Munich

[1] History of the German diplomatic mission in Tallinn ( Memento of the original dated November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] Walter Brem: Fraternitas Normannia 1909–2009 St. Petersburg – Dorpat – Germany , 2nd edition. Marktleuthen 2009.

[3] Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 5, January 9, 1979.