Emil Baumecker

Wilhelm Emil Karl Baumecker (born April 27, 1866 in Hayn near Stolberg , † July 19, 1947 in Ballenstedt ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and long-standing, multiple-elected member of the state parliament of the Free State of Anhalt .

Life

Childhood and youth

Emil Baumecker was the first of five children of the cattle dealer Friedrich Christian Karl Baumecker and his wife Luise geb. Werner. He was baptized on May 11, 1866. In 1875 the family moved to Ballenstedt, where Emil was confirmed on April 10, 1881 in St. Nikolai. From 1882 he attended high school in Quedlinburg and passed the high school diploma (Abitur).

Study of theology, ordination, pastor's position in Leopoldshall

Emil Baumecker began his theology studies in the winter semester of 1885/86 in Berlin, followed by two semesters in 1886/87 in Tübingen, a summer semester in Halle in 1887 and finally back in Berlin in 1887/88. In the summer of 1889 he took the first theological exam in Dessau.

In September 1891, Emil Baumecker received an appointment to the religious service in Bernburg from the ducal consistory . For two years he was assistant chaplain at the Castle Church of St. Aegidien in Bernburg at the side of Superintendent Schröter. In the summer of 1892 the second theological exam followed in Dessau. On Thanksgiving Day 1892 he was ordained by Superintendent Schröter.

A year later he was recalled by Bernburg to take over the diaconate in Leopoldshall . Emil Baumecker was introduced to this office by Superintendent Schröter with the assistance of Pastor Pietschker from Leopoldshall and the deacon Naucke. Duke Friedrich I. von Anhalt's certificate of appointment dates from October 15, 1893.

Emil Baumecker married Luise Wilhelmine Margarete Heine on April 24, 1894 in the St. Nikolai Church in Quedlinburg. After the illness and retirement of Pastor Pietschker, Emil Baumecker was appointed the first clergyman of the Evangelical St.Johannis-Congregation Leopoldshall at the request of the congregation . The installation in this office (appointment) took place on September 19, 1898 by Duke Friedrich I of Anhalt .

Political career

In addition to his spiritual activities, Baumecker's political career began. So it happened that Emil Baumecker was nominated by his community (in particular by civil servants and workers) as a "National Socialist" for the Landtag of the Free State of Anhalt in 1902 and got there thanks to lot. However, after it was found out that one of his electors did not hold a permanent citizenship, he had to give up his mandate. In 1908 Baumecker entered the state parliament with the remaining votes from the Social Democrats. He belonged to the national liberal party.

Due to his political activities, Baumecker was named as the National Liberal candidate for the Reichstag in 1912 , but was defeated in the runoff election after the first ballot against the social democratic competitor Bender. In the same constituency 2 of Anhalt, Rudolf Breitscheid also ran the "Democratic Party" he founded, which later became famous with the Social Democrats and died as a victim of the Nazis.

Emil Baumecker was involved in the Landtag for the ideas of land reform and thus had a difficult time: “It was difficult to represent Damaschke's ideas in a Landtag in which the large landed property dominated and from the left a new land law, which any abuse with reason and Should cut ground was considered a fantasy. On the other hand, one could point out that the Anhalt parliament had been active in land reform on one essential point, when it prevented the sale of the state salt works in Leopoldshall to an English consortium and advocated nationalization of the Anhalt potash resources. "

On May 2, 1915, the Anhalt State Association of the “Federation of German Soil Reformers” was founded in Bernburg with the assistance of Emil Baumecker, who became deputy chairman.

His son Johannes Baumecker was killed in the First World War .

After the First World War, Emil Baumecker was initially a member of the German Democratic Party as a supporter of Friedrich Naumann (editor of the magazine “Die Hilfe”) and was re-elected to the Anhalt state parliament. Thanks to the commitment of Emil Baumecker and Alexander Malchow, the State Council for Anhalt granted the municipality of Leopoldshall city ​​rights on January 29, 1919 .

From his party, which developed more and more from Christian-social liberalism in the direction of a so-called free-thinking people's party, Emil Baumecker politically distanced himself more and more. As a staunch land reformer and supporter of Adolf Damaschke , he set up his own business in the state parliament and was re-elected to the state parliament in the 1920s. In the 1928 election he missed re-entry into parliament.

Emil Baumecker retired on June 30, 1934. He retired to Ballenstedt, where he spent his twilight years.

Publications

• Leopoldshall, its origin, development and importance. Festschrift on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the St. Johanniskirche. Leopoldshall 1901. Staßfurt-Leopoldshall, extended reprint 1993 (edited by Hartmut Wiest), ISBN 3-930207-00-1 .
• Speech at the church constitutional ceremony on August 11, 1929 in St. Johannis-Kirche Leopoldshall , Leopoldshall 1929.
• Youth care work in wartime. A call to participate in the upbringing and education of young people who have left school. Published on behalf of the district committees for youth care in Bernburg and Ballenstedt , Bernburg 1917.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the entrance area in the church tower of the Leopoldshall church there are eight plaques with 30 names each of the soldiers of the parish who died in the First World War. Johannes Baumecker is also named there.
2. ^ Hartmut Wiest: From the life of Wilhelm Emil Karl Baumecker . In: Emil Baumecker: Leopoldshall, its origin, development and importance. Festschrift on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the St. Johanniskirche . Staßfurt-Leopoldshall 1993 (edited and expanded reprint of the Festschrift published in Leopoldshall in 1901), p. IV ff ( ISBN 3-930207-00-1 )