Georg Baur (politician, 1881)

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Georg Baur (born December 17, 1881 in Zimnawoda , Posen Province , † December 16, 1965 in Kettwig ) was a German politician.

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Baur attended high schools in Oels and Sagan. After several years of apprenticeship in the Rhineland, Hanover and Silesia, Baur worked in agriculture. From 1900 to 1901 he was a volunteer in the 3rd Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment 50. From 1907, Baur was an independent farmer in Dittersbach in the Sagan district . In the same year he married.

Baur took part in the First World War as a company commander of his old regiment. In 1916 he was seriously wounded near Verdun. Later in the war he was employed in managerial positions in the agricultural departments of the Military Administration of Lithuania Upper East and Bug.

After the First World War , Baur began to work in the Landbund , a lobby group closely linked to the German National People's Party (DNVP). Until the late 1920s, Baur made it to the position of deputy chairman of the Lower Silesian section of the Landbund, whose chairman was Baron von Richthofen. After a dispute with DNVP chairman Alfred Hugenberg , Baur finally left the alliance with the DNVP. Instead, he was now involved in the Christian National Farmers and Rural People Party (CNBL). In the Reichstag election of September 1930 , Baur entered the Reichstag as a candidate for the CNBL , in which he represented constituency 8 (Liegnitz) until July 1932.

In 1927 Baur became tenant of the Liebsen domain in Sagan County and chairman of the Sagan County Agricultural Association. He also became a district representative for Sagan County and a provincial representative for Lower Silesia .

Baur was arrested in 1934. Until 1935 he was imprisoned in various concentration camps, including the Columbiahaus concentration camp in Berlin. After his release from prison, he fled abroad. In the following years he worked in agriculture and grain trade in Rudnik (Yugoslavia). In 1941 he returned to Germany. After July 20, 1944, Baur was arrested again as part of the Grid Action .

After the Second World War he came to Nemden, a district of the municipality of Bissendorf . In the federal election in 1949 he ran as an independent candidate in the constituency of Osnabrück city and state . With 11.4% he took fourth place behind the candidates from the CDU ( Anton Storch ), SPD and the center and thus missed the entry into parliament. From 1951 to 1965 he was a member of the board of directors of the Deutsche Siedlungsbank. He was also the founder, president and honorary president of the Farmers' Association of Displaced People

Web links

  • Georg Baur in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Müller: The Christian National Peasant and Rural People's Party 1928-1933 , 2001, p. 424.
  2. ↑ Christoph Schwabe: The Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government , 1982, p. 382.
personal data
SURNAME Baur, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DNVP, CNBL), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Zimnawoda
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1965
Place of death Kettwig