Arthur Bauer (businessman)

Arthur Bauer (born November 14, 1895 in Niederzwönitz ; † November 3, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German businessman and alpinist . On July 26, 1934, together with the mountain guide Hermann Steuri from Grindelwald , he managed the second ascent of the Mönch north face via the Lauper route and two days later the second ascent of the Wetterhorn north face. The third ascent of the north face of the Matterhorn followed on July 24, 1935 , for the first time without a bivouac .

Life

He was the son of the rural merchant and grain and feed trader Emil Bauer in Niederzwönitz in the Ore Mountains and his wife Marie nee Becher. After attending the secondary school in Chemnitz and completing an emergency school leaving examination in August 1914, he volunteered for the war in August 1914 and took an active part in the First World War. In 1916 he was severely wounded and discharged from military service as a lieutenant in the reserve and returned to the Ore Mountains. There he became an air observer in 1917. From 1918 Arthur Bauer studied history and new languages at the University of Leipzig . There he was on November 29, 1920 with an investigation into the inheritance policy of Henry VI. to the Dr. phil. PhD. In addition, Bauer completed a commercial traineeship

Together with his brother Friedrich, Arthur Bauer took over the parents' business in Niederzwönitz in 1921, whose regional sphere of activity increased in 1922 with the establishment of Emil Bauer OHG.

He lived in Zwönitz in Saxony, on Adolf-Hitler-Strasse. In his spare time he was an alpinist . Since 1924 he was a member of the Swiss Alpine Club , Monte Rosa section, and the Chemnitz section of the German Alpine Club .

Arthur Bauer worked first in the city administration in Zwönitz and then in the district assembly in Chemnitz. He was a member of the Chemnitz Chamber of Commerce and Industry and became Head of Department IV of the State Farmers' Association of Saxony . from 1926 he was active in local politics. In 1926 he was a co-founder of a local branch of the conservative German People's Party . In May 1932 he joined the NSDAP and in November of the same year took over the post of press attendant of the NSDAP local group. As such, he shares responsibility for sharp verbal attacks on the bourgeois opposition. During the Second World War he was called up for military service as an officer in the Air Force as early as 1939. He was deployed on the Eastern Front and became a US prisoner of war in 1945.

After the end of the Second World War, his company was initially confiscated due to the implementation of SMAD orders 97 and 124 on the expropriation of Nazis and war criminals and then expropriated in 1946. In 1946 Arthur Bauer was arrested by the Soviet occupation forces and interned in a prisoner-of-war camp near Moscow. He was only released to the GDR in 1952 . He left Zwönitz and moved with his family to Giersleben ( Saxony-Anhalt ), where he worked as a businessman.

family

Arthur Bauer married Susanne, nee drummer. The children Hans (* 1919), Rolf (* 1928) and Erika (* 1933) emerged from their marriage.

Honors

• Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class
• Knight's Cross of the Order of Albrecht II class with swords
• Military Order of St. Heinrich

literature

• Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 68.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, Staatsarchiv Chemnitz, 30874 Chemnitz Chamber of Commerce and Industry, No. 9 (used in the Chemnitz State Archives ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Uwe Schneider : Chronicle of the City of Zwönitz 960–1945. A manual. Zwönitz 2016, DNB 1097214958 , p. 598.
3. ^ Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, Staatsarchiv Chemnitz, 30401 District Council / District Council Annaberg, No. 402.
4. ↑ Walter Keiderling: Dr. Arthur Bauer, a Zwönitz merchant and alpinist , in: Communications of the Chemnitz Section of the German Alpine Club, 15 (2005), Issue 30, pp. 41–42. ( PDF )