Alfred Baumann (miner)

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Alfred Baumann (born April 27, 1900 in Niederplanitz ; † October 20, 1973 ) was a German miner and politician ( SED ). From 1950 to 1952 he was a member of parliament and vice-president of the Saxon state parliament .

Life

Baumann, born as the son of a miner in Niederplanitz in the Zwickau district, attended elementary school, also learned to be a miner and worked in the profession. He was Häuer on the " mine de Wendel " in Hamm and from 1922 in Zwickau . In 1923 he became a member of the Miners' Union. From 1939 to 1940 he served in the Wehrmacht .

After the Second World War he worked again as a tiller in the Zwickau coal field. In 1945 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB). From 1946 member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), he attended the SED's business school. On October 24, 1948 he and Heinrich Michels mined 26 cubic meters of coal each during a special shift in the Brückenberg shaft in Zwickau, which corresponded to an output of 520% ​​of the norm. For this he was honored as an activist and given honorary citizenship of the city of Zwickau.

In 1949 he became a member of the SED regional leadership in Saxony. On July 7, 1950, he succeeded Otto Grotewohl in the Landtag of Saxony with the SED mandate , to which he then belonged from November 1950 to July 1952 as a member of the FDGB parliamentary group and vice-president. In July 1950 he sat in the presidium of the III. SED party congress and in August 1950 he was elected a member of the National Council of the National Front of the GDR .

As the head of the “Steinkohle” collective in the Karl Marx factory of the Zwickau coal administration, VVB Kohlenindustrie, Baumann was one of the initiators of the Baumann-Hennecke shifts for the voluntary increase in standards and in 1950 received the GDR National Prize for it . After the mine accident in the VEB hard coal works "Martin Hoop" in Zwickau on April 19, 1952, Baumann was appointed head of the investigation commission by the GDR Council of Ministers .

At the Second Party Conference of the SED in early July 1952, at which he presented the Zwickau Plan with measures to increase labor productivity and improve the standard of living through additional initiatives by the working population to the delegates , he was elected as a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED , and left the IV. Party Congress in April 1954, however, again from the Central Committee. From August 1952 to 1954 he was a member of the Chemnitz and Karl-Marx-Stadt district assembly . In March 1953 he was a member of the GDR delegation to take part in the funeral ceremonies on the occasion of Josef Stalin's funeral . From 1954 he worked as a work instructor in Zwickau. He was a member of the central board of IG Bergbau in the FDGB.

The painter Paul Schmidt-Roller created the oil painting National Prize Winner Alfred Baumann - Karl-Marx-Werk Zwickau with the Zwickau plan in 1952, which was presented in 1953 at the 3rd German Art Exhibition in Dresden .

Awards and honors

literature

  • Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (Ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945–1949 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 865.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 32 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED. History, organization, politics: a manual. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 904.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Competition for peaceful work . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 26, 1948, p. 2.
  2. Working people became honorary citizens . In: Berliner Zeitung, March 1, 1950, p. 2.
  3. ^ Members and Presidium of the National Council . In: Neues Deutschland , August 27, 1950, p. 6.
  4. ^ The winners of the National Prize III. Class . In: Neues Deutschland, October 9, 1950, p. 4.
  5. ^ Communiqué of the Council of Ministers . In: Neues Deutschland, April 25, 1952, p. 2.
  6. ↑ City Chronicle of the 20th Century ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the city of Zwickau; accessed on December 21, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zwickau.de
  7. ^ Zwickauer Plan - Combat plan to mobilize all reserves . In: Neues Deutschland, July 11, 1952
  8. ^ Conclusion of the second party conference . In: Neues Deutschland, July 13, 1952, p. 2.
  9. ^ Delegation of the Central Committee of the SED, the government and the People's Chamber of the GDR to participate in the funeral ceremonies in Moscow . In: Neues Deutschland, March 8, 1953, p. 2.