August Baudert

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August Baudert
Union House Forward in Apolda

Friedrich Louis August Baudert (born June 16, 1860 in Kranichfeld ( Saxony-Weimar ), † April 24, 1942 in Oranienburg ) was a German publicist and politician of the SPD .

Life and work

Born as the son of a master weaver , Baudert attended the elementary school in Blankenhain from 1866 to 1868 and then the public school in Apolda until 1874 . From 1874 to 1877 he did an apprenticeship as a stocking maker and went on a journey in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Denmark. After his marriage in 1884 to Christiane Saupe from Krippendorf, he worked as a textile worker until 1889 and obtained the master's title in 1886. He then worked as a self-employed master knitter in Apolda until 1892. In 1891 he participated in the founding of the textile workers' association . In 1892/93 he was editor of the newspaper Tribüne in Erfurt and its supplement "Free Press" in Apolda. From 1892 to November 1902, Baudert ran an inn under the programmatic name “Vorwärts”, in which a substantial part of Apolda's union life took place and the workers held political meetings. From 1900 he ran a "Central Library" there for workers' education. From 1902 he worked as a writer. In 1905 he was a co-founder of the Apolda savings and construction association to promote workers' housing . In 1906 he followed Carl Kettel's call and moved to Weimar to take on a position in the state executive committee of the SPD. He is the initiator for the construction of the Volkshaus in Weimar (1906/08).

Political career

Baudert joined the SPD in 1878 and was a member of the local council in Apolda from 1891 to 1906. Until 1919 he worked as party secretary for Thuringia from Weimar, where he was also a local councilor from 1909 to 1919. The November Revolution of 1918 marked a decisive political change for August Baudert. In November he became State Commissioner for internal and external affairs in the Free State of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach for six months until May 1919 . Following this activity, he held the office of Minister of State for Interior and External Affairs in the Free State. From January 1921 to April 1923, Baudert was chairman of the regional government of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and, from April 1922, he was also the regional manager of the Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach region. He was also a member of the Thuringian State Council from 1919 to 1920.

From 1936 Baudert lived in Oranienburg, where he died in 1942. August Baudert was repeatedly imprisoned during the Nazi regime.

Parliamentary membership

Baudert ran for the first time for the Reichstag in 1893 , but this candidacy was unsuccessful. A year later August Baudert moved into the state parliament of Saxony-Weimar and held this mandate until 1920. From 1920 to 1921 he was a member of the new state parliament of Thuringia .

After his unsuccessful candidacy in 1893, Baudert finally moved into the Reichstag in 1898 for the constituency of Sachsen-Weimar 1 and held his mandate until 1907. He ran again in the Reichstag election in 1907 , but this time again without success. After the Reichstag election in 1912 , he was again a member of the Reichstag until 1918.

From 1919 to 1920 Baudert represented constituency 36 (Thuringia) in the constituent national assembly in Weimar.

Commemoration

  • In Weimar , the forecourt of the main train station is named after August Baudert.
  • There is an "August-Baudert-Straße" in Apolda.

publication

  • Saxony-Weimar's end. Historical facts from stormy times. Panse, Weimar 1923.

literature

  • Wilhelm Heinz Schröder: Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies-Chronicle-election documentation. A manual. Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 , p. 356.
  • Hermann Hillger : Hillger's handbook of the German constituent assembly 1919. Hillger Verlag, Berlin, Leipzig 1919, p. 479
  • Peter Franz : A socialist grassroots worker. August Baudert. In: Lived Ideas. Socialists in Thuringia. Biographical sketches. Edited by Mario Hesselbarth, Eberhart Schultz, Manfred Weißbecker . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Thuringia, Jena 2006, ISBN 3-935850-37-9 . Pp. 30-38.
  • Jürgen John (Ed.): Sources on the history of Thuringia 1918–1945. Volume 3. State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 1996. In it: The social democrat August Baudert on his conversation with the Weimar Grand Duke (November 9, 1918). ISBN 3-931426-07-6 , p. 56.
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
  • Thomas Bahr: August Baudert and Sachsen-Weimar's end. In: Apoldaer Heimat 27 (2009). Pp. 17-36.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death Reg. No. 1074/1942 from Oranienburg
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Members of the Reichstag and Candidates for the Reichstag 1898-1918. Biographical-statistical manual (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-5135-1 , pp. 77-78.
  4. ↑ For the individual elections see Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates. Second half volume. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007, pp. 1381–1386 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol. 15).
personal data
SURNAME Baudert, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baudert, Friedrich Louis August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Crane field
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1942
Place of death Oranienburg