Georg Theodor Bauer

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Georg Theodor Bauer

Georg Theodor Bauer (born January 30, 1873 in Grombach ; † February 24, 1933 in Karlsruhe ) was a German officer and politician . He belonged to the Baden state parliament for the DVP and later the DNVP.

Life

Theodor Bauer was a son of the Grombach pastor Georg Bauer (1834-1892) and attended a private school with his twin brother Wilhelm in Pforzheim and then the grammar school in Lahr . Then both joined the Prussian Army . Georg Bauer was initially with the 6th Baden Infantry Regiment "Kaiser Friedrich III." No. 114 in Constance . In 1892 he was promoted to lieutenant . He took a three-year leave of absence during his career and went to Geneva , where he learned the French language, and then passed his interpreting exam again in the military in 1896. In 1900 he came to the district command in Stockach as a first lieutenant . There he passed the academy exam and should have been sent to the War Academy in Berlin in 1903 . Instead, he signed up for service in China and was a member of the East Asian Occupation Brigade from 1903 to 1906. During this time, Bauer attended receptions from Cixi and Yuan Shikai . After his return to Germany he came back to his old regiment in Konstanz and was promoted to captain in 1907 . Bauer took another leave of absence and went to England to learn the English language there. Back in Germany in 1908 he became company commander in the "Hessen-Homburg" infantry regiment No. 166 .

When the First World War broke out, he was promoted to major and transferred to the 8th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 70 as battalion commander. With the regiment he took part in the fighting on the Western Front . On October 6, 1914, Bauer suffered a serious wound near Damery, as a result of which his left leg had to be amputated at the thigh. He spent over a year in the hospital and then came to Berlin as an assistant in the pension department of the War Ministry . In 1917 he was appointed commander of the Kadettenanstalt in Karlsruhe. After the end of the war , Bauer was commander of the Karlsruhe Resident Army in 1919 and retired from military service in 1920 as a lieutenant colonel .

Bauer became the second vice-president of the Badischer Kriegerbund and chairman of the Badischer Landesverband des Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge . He stood up for the interests of war victims and survivors.

In 1922 he joined the DVP and became a member of the executive committee of the regional association, chairman of the Karlsruhe branch and parliamentary group chairman in the Baden state parliament , to which he belonged from 1925 to 1933. In 1931 he joined the DNVP , whose second parliamentary group chairman he also became.

At the end of 1932, his health deteriorated dramatically as a result of the injuries he had suffered in the war. He did not recover and died on February 24, 1933.

family

Theodor Bauer was married to Elisabeth Fritz (1887–1976) from 1911. The marriage was the result of the son Hans Theo Bauer (1911–1991).

Awards

literature

  • City of Bad Rappenau (Ed.): Grunbach uff dem Creichgöw. A home book. Contributions to the past and present of Grombach, the westernmost district of Bad Rappenau. Bad Rappenau 2010, pp. 529-530.
  • Bauer, Georg Theodor , in: Badische Biographien, New Series, Vol. 4, ed. v. Bernd Ottnad, Stuttgart 1996, pp. 9-11.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 31st Division (Old Army), Contingent Association of the Kingdom of Prussia, In: Genwiki
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Georg Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Grombach
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1933
Place of death Karlsruhe