Carl Baumann (politician, 1888)
Carl Amandus Friedrich Wilhelm Baumann , also modernized Karl Baumann , (born July 31, 1888 in Osterwieck , † July 2, 1958 in Switzerland ) was a German politician (DNVP, Bürgerliche Einheitsliste, NSDAP). He was a member of the state parliament of Braunschweig and later a member of the state committee for physical exercise at the State Ministry in Braunschweig.
Life
He grew up in the northern Harz foreland as the son of a merchant and his wife Frieda née Cramer. After graduating from Martino-Katharineum Braunschweig Carl Baumann studied from 1911 to 1914 theology and philosophy at the University of Bonn , where he passed the state examination. After the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered and was deployed in the 46th Lower Saxony Field Artillery Regiment in Wolfenbüttel . In 1917 he got a job as a senior teacher at the Gauß-Oberrealschule am Löwenwall in Braunschweig, and in 1921 he was promoted to the faculty member there. As a teacher, he had specialized in medieval, history and modern pedagogy in their various effects. In addition, he conducted his own family and homeland research. For example, he found out that his ancestors on his mother's side owned the Fideikommiss Werdum is Ostfriesland and on his father's side came from a farming family in Butjadingen .
Baumann joined the DNVP and was a member of the Stahlhelm until 1927 . From 1926 to 1933 he was regional chairman of the DNVP in Braunschweig. In 1924 he was elected to the Braunschweig Landtag , to which he belonged until 1933. He was 1924-1927 member of the faction Parliamentary working group of the national parties and the trade association , from 1927 to 1930 deputy chairman of the DNVP Group, 1930-1933 Member of the Group of Civil Unity List . As an opponent of academic elementary education, he rejected the law passed in 1927 on the university-level training of teachers for service at universities. In early 1932 he was involved in an attempt to appoint Adolf Hitler to professor.
After the DNVP was dissolved, Baumann became a member of the NSDAP and a member of the state committee for physical exercise at the State Ministry in Braunschweig. In April 1933 he joined the NSDAP faction. From 1940 he was deputy local group leader of the NSDAP as well as training leader and head of the racial political office in Braunschweig.
Carl Baumann lived in Braunschweig, Schunterstraße 6. In the course of denazification , the state committee in 1946 did not approve of a renewed activity as a teacher. After his retirement in 1947 he moved to southern Switzerland.
family
On March 18, 1916, he married Johanna, the daughter of the secret building councilor Friedrich Wilhelm Selle, who was the head of the authorities in Braunschweig.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 72.
- Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 34.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Menzel: Annotated Chronicle on Hitler's naturalization in the Free State of Braunschweig in 1932, its history and its consequences (1889-2016) , 2016, page 135.
- ↑ Archival sources on the political crisis situation during the Weimar period in the former territories of Lower Saxony: Freistaat Braunschweig , 1984, page 305.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baumann, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baumann, Karl; Baumann, Carl Amandus Friedrich Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politicians (DNVP, civil unity list, NSDAP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osterwieck |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd July 1958 |
| Place of death | Sweat |