Anton Baur (politician, 1899)

Anton Baur (born August 16, 1899 in Munich , † August 26, 1956 in Burgau ) was a German painter and politician ( SPD ). He was a member of the state parliament in Bavaria from 1946 to 1954.

Life

Baur trained as a painter and then attended the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts . His training was interrupted by his military service, which he had to do from 1917 to 1919. In 1921 he finished the arts and crafts school, after which he worked for a year as a craftsman for a Munich company. From 1922 to 1930 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , including four semesters as a master class student. In 1924 he made several study trips to Italy and Spain and from 1931 Baur worked as a freelance painter. He was a member of the Business Association of Fine Arts and the Munich Art Association. During the Second World War, the Baur moved with his wife and child to Burgau, where his mother came from.

politics

In 1945 Baur was one of the founders of the SPD local association Burgau and the district association of the SPD Günzburg . In 1946 he was elected to the city and district council and from 1948 he was second mayor of the city of Burgau. In the state election in 1946 he was elected to the state parliament in the Schwaben constituency. He was a full member of the Committee on Rules of Procedure and the Committee on Cultural Policy Issues. He was also a full member of the Social Policy Committee and the Submission Committee. In the state elections in 1950 he was re-elected in his constituency. He was a full member of the Submissions and Complaints Committee and the Cultural Policy Affairs Committee.

Private

Baur had been married to Margarethe “Gretl” Hoyer (1899–1965) since 1929; unusual for a woman, she had attended the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts, where the couple met. After his husband's death, Gretl Baur took on the task of renovating the Stations of the Cross (created in 1741) to the Lorete Chapel in Burgau ( reopened in 1959).

Web links

• Anton Baur in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History