Curt Baake

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Curt Baake (born April 24, 1864 in Breslau , † April 16, 1940 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and social democratic politician of the Weimar Republic .

Life

Curt Baake in his office, around 1925.

From 1884 he was editor of the social democratic "Berliner Volksblatt" in Berlin. In 1894 he was a correspondent for the Swabian Tagwacht . In 1890 he was one of the founders of the free Volksbühne there . From 1891 to 1893 he was editor of the "New World". Since 1896, Baake and Paul Hirsch published the “Political-Parliamentary News”. Curt Baake was also a city councilor in Berlin. From 1914 he was one of Friedrich Ebert's advisors .

Curt Baake on police ID photo with signature, 1917

In his role as Undersecretary of State, Baake headed the Reich Chancellery from November 12, 1918 to March 3, 1919 . During this time, the journalist Walter Oehme (1892–1969) worked as his speaker . Unofficially, Baake appeared as the "head of cabinet" and right-hand man of Friedrich Ebert, who in January 1919 also helped to choose a suitable venue for the constituent national assembly. Since February 11, 1919, after Ebert was elected President of the Reich by the Weimar National Assembly, he appeared alongside Franz Krüger, Eberts' private secretary in the Council of People's Representatives from mid-December 1918, and head of the newly established office of the Reich President. After the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht , he is said to have said to Gustav Noske : “The two L. are dead… That's the end. The government must resign immediately ”. Within the office, there were soon conflicts between Ebert's Social Democratic followers and the professional officials. The Social Democrats were ousted relatively soon. As early as March 3, 1919, Baake asked to be released from service in the Reich. Between 1920 and 1933 Baake was chairman of the Association of German People's Theaters. In addition, since 1927 he was the first chairman of the Arbeiter-Radio-Bund and a member of the cultural advisory board of "Deutsche Welle".

In addition, Baake also headed the local Volksbühne in Berlin until 1935 . After the National Socialists came to power , the Volksbühnen were gradually brought into line. On April 8, 1935, Baake asked Franz Moraller, the Reichskulturamtsleiter of the Reichskulturkammer, to take on the leadership position of the Volksbühne eV association. The board of directors of the Volksbühne was then newly appointed; Baake resigned from his post as the first chairman of the Volksbühne in October 1935. In the 1930s, Baake was also in contact with Adolf Grimme .

Moraller to Kurt Baake

The year of death is given as 1938 or 1940. April 16, 1940 is recorded as the date of death on Baake's tombstone. According to the Berlin address books, he lived until 1934 as “Baake, Curt, Undersecretary a. D. SW 1, Großbeerenstr. 94 ”and the last entry in 1935 under the professional title“ Writer ”with the same address. Between 1936 and 1940 it is not listed in the Berlin address books.

Works

  • This year's party congress . In: The voter. Organ for the interests of the entire working people . Leipzig 1894. No. 69 of March 27, 1894.
  • Five years of cultural theater in the German Nordmark: Contributions to the history of the Nordmark-Landestheater / Ed. By Theater Zweckverband Schleswig-Husum with contributions by Curt Baake u. a. Theater Zweckverband, Husum 1929.
  • 10 years Volksbühnenverband - 40 years Berliner Volksbühne; September 19-21, 1930 in Berlin . Volksbühnen Verlag, Berlin 1930.
  • 10 years of the Chemnitz Volksbühne. Festschrift for the 10th anniversary of the Volksbühne Chemnitz 1920–1930 . Landgraf, Chemnitz 1930. (Reprint: Ed. By the Chemnitzer Geschichtsverein with the support of the Chemnitz City Archives. Verlag Heimatland Sachsen GmbH, Chemnitz 1991. ISBN 3-910186-01-7 ) also contains an article by "Unterstaatssekretär aD Curt Baake"

literature

  • Curt Baake . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism. Volume I. Deceased personalities . JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, p. 13.
  • Dieter Fricke : The German labor movement 1869-1914. A manual about their organization and activity in the class struggle . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1976, pp. 449, 471, 474, 832.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Fricke, p. 449.
  2. ↑ Forward November 11, 1896; Dieter Fricke, p. 832.
  3. ↑ Klaus Malettke:  Hirsch, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 217 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ↑ 1902 Former Volkshaus Rosinenstrasse 4 (today Loschmidtstrasse 6-8)
  5. ^ Walter Mühlhausen: Friedrich Ebert 1871–1925. President of the Weimar Republic. 2nd Edition. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8012-4164-3 , p. 206-208 .
  6. ↑ One must become the bloodhound. Spiegel editor Wolfgang Malanowski on Wolfram Wette's Gustav Noske biography . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13/1988. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  7. ↑ Ebert as Reich President, p. 75
  8. ^ Hans Bausch: Broadcasting in Germany . Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1980, p. 398.
  9. ↑ The 4th National Conference of ARBD
  10. ↑ Luise Berlin cultural calendar 1935 .
  11. ↑ Volksbühnen-Spiegel 1/2013, p. 6.
  12. ^ Adolf Grimme to Siegfried Nestriepke December 15, 1955. In: Adolf Grimme. Letters . Edited by Dieter Sauberzweig. L. Schneider, Heidelberg 1967, p. 206.
  13. ^ Franz Osterroth (1938); DNB (1938 or 1940)
  14. ↑ Butlerpjr: German: grave stone of Undersecretary of State a. D. Kurt Baake and his wife Helene Baake. April 16, 1940. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Berliner Adressbuch 1932, p. 76, Berliner Adressbuch 1933, p. 62, Berliner Adressbuch 1934, p. 58.
personal data
SURNAME Baake, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD) in the Weimar Republic
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1940
Place of death Berlin