Anna Baumann-Schosland

Aenne Baumann-Schosland, née Schosland (born January 11, 1886 in Berlin , † November 12, 1972 in Überlingen ) was a German teacher. In the Soviet zone of occupation she was one of the founders of the DFD in Saxony-Anhalt . She also represented the CDU as a member of the German People's Council and the Provisional People's Chamber .

Life

Baumann-Schosland was born in Berlin in 1886 as the daughter of a bank clerk. After finishing school, she met the painter Max Baumann , whom she married in Berlin in 1913. The couple then moved to Berlin. In 1922 and 1923 Baumann-Schosland gave birth to one child each. Both children perished in the war. At the end of the 1920s, the family of four moved to Dessau , where Max Baumann worked as a painter. Apparently he died in the attack on Poland in 1939 , as his wife was later listed in the archives as a war widow. Baumann-Schosland worked as a teacher in Dessau. During the Second World War Baumann-Schosland also worked temporarily in Silesia . While fleeing from the Red Army , she returned to Dessau via Dresden .

There she got a job as a teacher and music educator at the 4th Dessau elementary school after resuming school operations in autumn 1945. In the same year Baumann-Schosland began to get involved politically. On September 11, 1945, she was one of the founders of the CDU's local branch in Dessau and was also a member of the board of the local group from the beginning until she was expelled from the party in 1953. In addition, after its constitution, she was also a member of the CDU district executive committee in Dessau, where she worked as a district women's officer until 1948. After the first local elections in September 1946, she represented the CDU in the Dessau city council, of which she was a member until 1953. After Baumann-Schosland had already dealt with women's issues in the CDU from 1945, she also became involved in the newly founded Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD) from 1947 . She was elected as a member of the first DFD district executive committee in Dessau and in 1948 as the second DFD state chairwoman of Saxony-Anhalt. As a result of this function, Baumann-Schosland was also a member of the DFD federal executive committee from 1948 until her expulsion, to which she was elected at the 2nd DFD federal congress in May 1948, which also strengthened her importance within the CDU, as functionaries of the so-called block parties were in the minority in the mass organizations. In the same year she was elected to the CDU regional executive committee of Saxony-Anhalt at the CDU state party conference, to which she belonged until 1952. The party congress delegates also sent her to the 2nd People's Congress where she was elected as a member of the 1st German People's Council. As a result, she was a member of the 2nd German People's Council and the Provisional People's Chamber until October 1950. Professionally, Baumann-Schosland changed her field of activity in 1948, she was appointed headmistress of the 9th elementary school in Dessau, which she headed until 1950 or 1951.

Because of the alleged Christian influence on the students, Baumann-Schosland was released from her position as headmistress and had to change to the 10th Dessau elementary school, where she was allowed to continue working at least as a music teacher. There was no support from her party in this process, as changes within the party towards approval of the SED policy had also taken place. At the IV. DFD federal congress in May 1952 there was a scandal when Baumann-Schosland declared in talks there that the many ovations for Stalin and the SU could not go along in the long run . This statement initially led to her not being re-elected to the DFD federal board. As a result, she was expelled from the DFD in July 1952. However, the CDU initially did not follow this view and left Baumann-Schosland in their offices. By changing the administrative structure in the GDR from states to districts in July 1952 and the ensuing adjustment of the party structures, Baumann-Schosland initially only left the CDU state executive committee of Saxony-Anhalt, which was dissolved in August 1952. Professionally, her statement in September of the same year had major consequences; the 66-year-old teacher was dismissed from school without notice. Only after the arrest of the CDU member and foreign minister of the GDR Georg Dertinger on January 15, 1953, the CDU began to work within the party organization at hastily convened functionaries' conferences of the still young district executive boards according to the model of criticism and self-criticism demanded by the SED to verify. But even at the corresponding conference of the CDU district executive in Halle on January 29, 1953, Baumann-Schosland, still a member of the CDU district executive in Dessau, was not reprimanded because of the events in the DFD. Only after an article in the official party newspaper Neue Zeit on February 6, 1953 under the heading What should have been talked about - Necessary critical considerations for the district conference of the Halle district - Not only criticism upwards, but also self-criticism , in which the activities of the am Founded December 1, 1952, the investigative committee of the CDU district executive in Halle was sharply criticized, Baumann-Schosland was expelled from the CDU on February 8, 1953. After being warned of an imminent arrest by a former student who was now a member of the DVP , Baumann-Schosland fled to West Berlin in March 1953 . Some time later she moved to Überlingen on Lake Constance, where she spent her final years. Baumann-Schosland died at the age of 86.

swell

• Federal Archives People's Chamber of Deputies, signature DA 1/1360
• Archive for Christian Democratic Politics (ACDP); Exile CDU III-013-729

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New times. February 6, 1953, p. 3.
2. ↑ New times. February 14, 1953, p. 3.