Gustav Baum
Gustav Walter Ludwig Baum (born June 2, 1892 in Erndtebrück , † March 26, 1976 in Freetown , Sierra Leone ) was a German manager and syndic .
Life
He grew up in Westphalia and was the son of the businessman Louis Baum and his wife Emilie nee Berger. After attending the secondary school in Dortmund , where he graduated from high school in 1910, he went straight to the military and became a flag boy in Metz . From autumn 1910 to summer 1911 Gustav Baum attended the war school in Engers . In August 1911 he was promoted to lieutenant . He took part in the First World War and served on the General Staff . After the end of the war, he was taken over to the general staff of a border guard division in 1919 and in the autumn of the same year, as a captain in the general staff , experienced its dissolution in the Reichswehr Ministry .
Gustav Baum was appointed managing director of the wood construction and wood finishing industry in the Reich Association of German Industry in May 1920 . This Reichsverband was later converted into a business association and Gustav Baum rose to the position of in-house counsel and executive board member. In 1934 he became general manager of the woodworking industry economic group and, from 1935, also head of the woodworking industry examination center. He remained in these leading positions until 1945 and was also appointed after the war in 1948, now as managing director, lawyer and executive member of the executive committee of the Central Association of the German Timber Industry and Related Industries. V. In 1962 he resigned from these functions for reasons of age. He died in Sierra Leone in 1976.
Gustav Baum had joined the NSDAP and belonged to the SA reserve . During the Second World War he was employed in the General Staff from 1941 to 1943.
He lived in Berlin-Wannsee II, Grüner Weg 21 and, after the Second World War, in Wiesbaden .
family
Gustav Baum had two sons, Hans-Waldemar and Hans-Joachim.
Honors
- Iron Cross , 1st and 2nd class
- Bavarian Order of Military Merit IV class
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 71.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Vierhaus : German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 1: Aachen-Braniß, Munich: Saur, 2005, page 417.
- ^ German Forest Address Book , Volume 6, 1953, page 86.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baum, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baum, Gustav Walter Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erndtebrück |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1976 |
| Place of death | Freetown (Sierra Leone) |