Andreas Baum (politician)

Andreas Baum (2010)

Andreas Baum (born July 5, 1978 in Kassel ) is a German politician (formerly Pirate Party Germany ) and journalist .

Life

Baum grew up in Kassel in northern Hesse . After completing school with a technical college entrance qualification, he completed an apprenticeship as an industrial electronics technician . After Baum had studied media informatics in Siegen for one semester from 2000 , he worked for Deutsche Telekom in North Rhine-Westphalia for three years . Baum has lived in Berlin since 2003 and was employed in the technical service of a telecommunications company until October 9, 2011 - most recently as a part-time employee.

Political career

Andreas Baum was involved in the data retention working group and was one of the co-founders of the Pirate Party Germany in 2006. From 2008 to 2011 he was chairman of the party's Berlin regional association .

In the election for the Berlin House of Representatives on September 18, 2011, he was elected as the top candidate of his party in the Berlin House of Representatives. At the same time, Baum was running for election to the District Assembly (BVV) Mitte . On September 27, 2011 he was elected leader of the pirate group in the Berlin House of Representatives. At a special meeting of the pirate group in Berlin on June 22, 2012, Baum was elected group chairman together with Christopher Lauer . In the subsequent election on June 11, 2013, Baum did not run again. He was a member of the main committee, sports committee and subcommittee on budgetary control and spokesman for the group's transport, sport and queer policy. On September 10, 2015, he resigned from the Pirate Party. In 2016 he left the House of Representatives.

journalism

In 2018, Baum was involved in the “ Radmesser ” project of the Berliner Tagesspiegel , for which the team was awarded the German Reporter Prize 2018 in the data journalism category. Since 2019 he has been working as a freelancer for the newly founded "Tagesspiegel Innovation Lab" .

Awards

• 2018: German Reporter Award in the data journalism category for "Radmesser" ( Der Tagesspiegel ), together with Fabian Altenried, Michael Gegg, Jakob Kluge, Hendrik Lehmann, David Meidinger, Hannes Soltau and Helena Wittlich

• 2019: German Reporter Award in the data journalism category for “Who will benefit from the Berlin rental market?” ( Der Tagesspiegel ), together with Lubena Awan, Michael Gegg, Sidney Gennies, Hendrik Lehmann, David Meidinger and Helena Wittlich

literature

• Andreas Baum , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 08/2012 from February 21, 2012, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Andreas Baum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tree in the wiki of pirates
• Portrait at focus.de , accessed on September 18, 2011
• Interview at taz.de , accessed on September 18, 2011
• Interview on gulli.com ( memento from January 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on September 18, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Klaus Kurpjuweit: Pirates leave their ship. Former parliamentary group leader Andreas Baum resigns . In: Der Tagesspiegel, October 4, 2015, p. 12.
2. ^ Andreas Holzapfel: Berlin House of Representatives, 17th electoral term . 2nd Edition. 2013, ISBN 978-3-87576-753-7 .
3. ↑ Pirate boss does not want to divulge private life , Berliner Morgenpost, September 28, 2011
4. ↑ Baum and Lauer lead the Berlin pirate faction as a duo . Berliner Morgenpost, from June 22, 2012, accessed on June 26, 2012
5. ↑ Andreas Baum, PIRATE ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), parlament-berlin.de
6. ↑ Andreas Baum ( memento of March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), piratenfraktion-berlin.de
7. ↑ Andreas Baum, Martin Baaske, Nantke Garrelts, Michael Gegg, Hans Hack, Graceful Haste, Kitty Kleist-Heinrich, Jakob Kluge, Hendrik Lehmann, David Meidinger, Ekkehard Petzold, Hannes Soltau, Helena Wittlich: Radmesser. In: Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved August 23, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Reporter Prize 2018. In: Website. Reporter Forum, December 3, 2018, accessed August 23, 2019 . 
9. ^ Andreas Baum: Biography. In: Twitter. Retrieved August 23, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Tagesspiegel launches Innovation Lab. In: press release. Der Tagesspiegel, January 24, 2019, accessed on August 23, 2019 . 
11. ↑ First reporter award according to Relotius: Report on digital dictatorship in China and exposure of the Ibiza affair awarded . In: Meedia . 3rd December 2016.