Adolf Baeumker

Adolf Georg Heinrich Klemens Vinzenz Baeumker (born July 14, 1891 in Breslau ; † March 4, 1976 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German officer and from the 1920s to the 1950s a functionary of various military and civil aviation research institutions.

Life

The son of a philosophy professor began his military career in 1908 in the Prussian Army . After attending the war school in Glogau , he was deployed in the air force in the First World War . From 1920 to 1927 he worked in the Reichswehr Ministry, and from 1924 as a consultant for technical issues relating to armament in the air force of the Army Office . In 1927 he retired with the rank of Rittmeister . a. D. retired from military service and until 1932 was a consultant for research and development in aviation in the Reich Ministry of Transport, from 1931 with the civil rank of a senior government councilor .

time of the nationalsocialism

Baeumker joined the NSDAP in 1933 . From 1933 to 1941 he was head of the aeronautical research and development department in the Reichswehr Ministry, and from 1938 he was a ministerial director . He was instrumental in the expansion and development of German aeronautical research institutes, founded the "Vereinigung für Luftfahrtforschung" in 1933, two years later the "Lilienthal Society for Aviation Research", and in 1936 the "German Academy of Aviation Research". Baeumker was chancellor of this academy from 1937 . On his initiative, the “Center for Scientific Reporting of Aviation Research of the General Aviation Master (ZWB)” was founded in Berlin- Adlerhof on November 1, 1933; it was not only a documentation center for specialist literature, but also played an important role in the approval of publications.

Baeumker was also significantly involved in the prehistory and the development of the Aviation Engineering School (IfL). In 1942 he became chairman of the aviation research institute in Munich, and for the last three years of the war he was part of the Luftwaffe's research management team. He also received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1944 .

In 1941 he became an honorary citizen of the Technical University of Munich .

post war period

After 1945, Baeumker worked in the USA as an advisor to the US Air Force in Baltimore and received American citizenship in 1954. In 1958 he was transferred to the headquarters of the American Air Force in Europe in Wiesbaden and during this time worked as a consultant for German and American military command posts. From 1959 he was a member of the board of trustees of the German Society for Aviation Sciences.

In 1961 he received the Great Federal Cross of Merit . Since 1967 he lived as Rittmeister a. D. and Ministerialdirigent a. D. in Bad Godesberg, where he died in 1976.

Fonts

• Advice to authorities from outside experts. explained using the example of German and American aviation. Notes on a topic of state management (= long-term planning of research and development, No. 40) Bad Godesberg, 1970
• Thoughts on problems of change in power (= long-term planning of research and development, No. 32) Bad Godesberg, 1967
• About the basic division of the highest military command. The special German needs here (= long-term planning of research and development, No. 20). Bad Godesberg: self-published, 1964
• Long-term research and development plans for defense . Bad Godesberg: self-published, 1959

literature

• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 18.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Baeumker in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang A. Herrmann (Ed.): Technical University of Munich. The history of a science company . Volume 2, Metropol, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-938690-34-5 , p. 989.