Georg Bauer (politician, 1900)

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Georg Bruno Bauer (born March 3, 1900 in Berlin , † December 17, 1983 in Bendorf ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

After graduating from elementary school in Berlin, Bauer initially completed an apprenticeship as a printer and typesetter while attending the commercial school in Koblenz . In 1918 he was conscripted and took part in the First World War as a soldier . After the end of the war he worked as an accountant and correspondent. He was the head of a printing company and since 1919 a member of the Association of German Book Printers . In 1932 he moved to the Koblenz city administration as an assistant. He joined the Socialist Workers' Youth , joined the SPD in 1919 and was a member of the party's board of directors at state and district level.

After the National Socialists came to power , Bauer was released from the Koblenz city administration and imprisoned for a short time. He then worked as a peddler and stationery dealer until the beginning of the Second World War , in which he participated as a soldier from 1939 to 1945. During this time he was a member of the German Labor Front with several interruptions . From 1938 he was a member of the Reich Press Chamber . Towards the end of the war he was captured by the United States.

After the war ended, Bauer worked again as an employee in the administration of the city of Koblenz. In 1946 he was a public plaintiff at the Second Arbitration Chamber of the City of Koblenz. He also acted as a partner in the Vereindruckerei und Verlag GmbH Koblenz. From 1948 to 1956 he was a member of the press commission of the Mainz SPD newspaper Die Freiheit .

Bauer participated in the re-establishment of the SPD in November 1945 and was elected chairman of the SPD sub-district of Koblenz in 1946. From 1946 to 1948 he was a member of the district assembly of the Koblenz district and from 1946 to 1947 a member of the advisory assembly of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. From 1951 to 1963 he was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament , which elected him a member of the second Federal Assembly , which re-elected Theodor Heuss as Federal President. He was always elected from the list of Landtag constituency 1 . In the state parliament he was a member of the main committee and from 1951 to 1955 a member of the cultural policy committee. From 1949 to 1967 he was full-time mayor of the city of Bendorf and from 1956 until the regional reform in 1969 he was a member of the Koblenz-Land district council.

Georg Bauer was married and had three children.

Awards and honors

literature

  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Advisory State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , pp. 38–39.
  • President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): Bauer, Georg. In: 60 years of parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate. (= Series of publications by the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament. 33). Mainz 2007, ISSN  1610-3432 , p. 55 ( PDF; 1.0 MB ).
  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 15th edition. Arani, Berlin 1967, p. 72.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Bernd Wollinger: Georg Bauer. Honorary citizen of the city of Bendorf. Society for History and Local Lore of Bendorf and Surroundings eV Accessed on September 22, 2015 .