Erwin Baum

Erwin Baum

Friedrich Louis Erwin Baum (born February 25, 1868 in Rauschwitz , Sachsen-Altenburg ; † March 22, 1950 ibid) was a German farmer , association official and politician ( DNVP , ThLB , CNBL ). He was a member of parliament from 1920 to 1932 and vice-president of the Thuringian state parliament from 1921 to 1923 . From 1930 to 1932 he was Chairman of the Thuringian State Ministry and Minister of Finance, from 1931 to 1932 he was also Minister of Economics for the State of Thuringia .

Life

Erwin Baum was the son of the farmer Constantin Baum (1827-1905) and Emilie Baum (née Brendel, 1846-1919). His parents owned a farm with an attached restaurant in Rauschwitz. After attending elementary school and high school in Eisenberg up to the upper secondary level , he completed an agricultural training. This was followed by a year’s activity in industry and then the takeover of his father’s estate, which he subsequently managed. Since the founding meeting in 1893, he was a member of the Association of Farmers (BdL) and a leader in the interest organization. In 1897 he married the farmer's daughter Anna Clara Scheibe (1877–1932).

Baum was a member of the state parliament in the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg from 1913 to 1918 . After the November Revolution he joined in 1918 in the German National People's Party (DNVP), which he from 1919 to 1921 in the constituent state assembly for the Free State of Saxony-Altenburg or in the regional representative Altenburg and from 1919 to 1920 in the state parliament of Saxony-Altenburg took . As a member of the Altenburg parliament, he was a deputy member of the Thuringian People's Council . From 1919 he was a member of the Thuringian Farmers' Union (TBB), a conservative and anti-republic land organization which, as the Thuringian Land Association (ThLB), helped shape state politics during the Weimar period . Initially elected chairman of the Eisenberg-Land farmers 'union in 1919, he was third from 1921 to 1922, second from 1922 to 1931 and finally first chairman of the Thuringian farmers' and rural association from July 1931 to December 1932.

In June 1920 Baum was elected to the Thuringian state parliament for the first time , to which he belonged continuously until the end of 1932. In the second electoral term, he served from October 6, 1921 to December 14, 1923 as Vice President of the State Parliament. In the third electoral term (1924–1927) he was a member of the Thuringian Ordnungsbund , a group made up of the DDP , DVP , DNVP and Landbund; in the fourth electoral term (1927–1929) member of the Unity List parliamentary group . In 1928 he took part in the founding of the Christian National Peasant and Rural People's Party (CNBL), which he headed as Reich Chairman from 1928 until he was replaced by Ernst Höfer in October 1930. In 1930 and from August 1932 until his resignation in December 1932, he was chairman of the parliamentary group of the Thuringian federal state.

Baum was from January 23, 1930 to August 25, 1932 Chairman of the State Ministry and Minister of Finance of the State of Thuringia ( State Government Baum ). At first he was chairman of the " Baum-Frick-Government ", a state government in which the NSDAP was involved for the first time in Germany with ministers Wilhelm Frick and Willy Marschler as coalition partners. In April 1930, Frick, who controlled the key departments of the interior and national education minister, appointed Paul Schultze-Naumburg as director of the state colleges for architecture, fine arts and handicrafts in Weimar . He also suggested that Adolf Hitler be appointed professor at the United Art Schools, but this was rejected by Baum, as Hitler's civilization would have resulted in civilization. After a vote of no confidence, the Nazi ministers left the state government on April 1, 1931. The government was then reorganized and from May 4, 1931, Baum also took over the management of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

From January 1933 to April 1934 Baum was a board member of the Thuringian Central Cooperative Fund and until May 1934 a board member of the Thuringian main cooperative for the purchase and sale of agricultural commodities and products. He also acted as director of the Thuringian Raiffeisen Association . After he retired in the summer of 1934, he lived in Jena and on his farm in Rauschwitz, to which he retired completely in 1939.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952: Biographisches Handbuch (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, large series . Volume 1 , no. 4 ). 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 , pp. 157-159 .

Web links

Commons : Erwin Baum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Erwin Baum in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic