Ernst Bähr
Ernst Bähr (born October 26, 1886 in Neudorf , † after 1943) was a German politician and SA leader.
Life
Bähr was the son of a ducal-Anhalt head forester. In his youth he attended high schools in Ballenstedt , Zerbst and Koethen . After graduating from high school, he studied at the Technical University of Munich , where he was trained as a graduate engineer for mechanical engineering. The studies were interrupted from 1907 to 1908 by service with the 3rd Pioneer Battalion of the Bavarian Army in Munich. He then worked in the research institute of the Zeppelin airship construction company in Friedrichshafen until the beginning of the First World War in the summer of 1914 .
At the beginning of the First World War Bähr came to the front with the 2nd Infantry Regiment "Kronprinz" as an officer's deputy. After being severely wounded, he temporarily returned to the Airship Construction Company, only to return to the front after his recovery. In the spring of 1916 Bähr was assigned to a Landwehr pioneer company in the replacement division . Soon after, he was appointed adjutant to the division's pioneer command. From 1917 until the end of the war, Bähr was the leader of Pionier-Kompagnie 21 and at the same time deputy pioneer commander.
After the war, Bähr again attended the university in Munich before he found a job as a laboratory engineer in a metal works in Berlin Oberspree. He later became head of the sales department of a Berlin metalworking plant.
In spring 1931 Bähr joined the NSDAP in Köpenick (membership number 530.848). In December of the same year he also became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the task force of the party, in which he was initially assigned to Sturm 37/5 (Köpenick). In the following years Bähr made a steep career in the Berlin SA: In this he was finally accepted into the staff of the SA-Standarte 5 ("Horst-Wessel-Standarte") led by Wilhelm Sander . In this he excelled among other things as the organizer of the mass march of the Berlin SA in front of the party headquarters of the Communist Party on Berlin Bülowplatz on the occasion of the third anniversary of the death of the SA “martyr” Horst Wessel on January 22, 1933, one of the last major propaganda coups of the NSDAP when the party came to power at the end of the same month.
In the summer of 1933 Bähr was given command of the almost ten thousand men in SA Standard 20 in Berlin , which he led until 1935 with the rank of standard leader. He then belonged to the staff of the SA group Berlin-Brandenburg with the rank of brigade leader. Subsequently, Bähr can still be verified as a graduate engineer in Köpenick until 1943.
literature
- Landesarchiv Berlin: Berlin in the past and present. Yearbook of the Berlin State Archives. 2006.
Archival material
- Federal Archives Berlin: BDC, inventory SA 4000 "Bähr, Ernst (October 26, 1886)"
- Bundesarchiv Berlin: BDC, holdings of party correspondence, film A 145
- Bundesarchiv Berlin: Party statistics survey, R 9361 I 94
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bähr, Ernst . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, part 1, p. 76.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bähr, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician and SA leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neudorf (Harzgerode) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |