Heinrich Baumann (Nazi victim)

Leonhard Heinrich Baumann (born June 6, 1883 in Marktlustenau ; † February 23, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a member of the Stuttgart municipal council . He was arrested as a suspect after the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 , and died in the Dachau concentration camp.

Life

Heinrich Baumann was the son of the farmer Jacob Baumann and his wife Anna Magdalena, nee. Kögler. Shortly before the First World War , he moved to Stuttgart , where he first lived at Aspergstrasse 37 and then moved to Champignystrasse 25. At that time, his profession was named in the address book as a goods floor worker. Before his time in Stuttgart Heinrich Baumann had apparently lived in Thuringia , because his son Willi Otto from his first marriage was born in Saalfeld in 1908 . Another son was born in 1928, named after Heinrich Baumann. The mother was Margarethe Frida Späth, who came from Ehingen. In 1929 Margarethe married Frida Späth and Heinrich Baumann.

In 1928 Heinrich Baumann ran in the municipal council election for the KPD , but with 30,208 votes could not win a seat in the municipal council. In July 1932, however, he moved up after Maria Walter had been elected to the state parliament . A few months later, after the National Socialists came to power, the KPD was smashed. On the night of March 11, 1933, around 200 communists were arrested in Stuttgart. They were first collected in the riding arena and then taken via Ulm to a new “protective custody camp”, the Heuberg concentration camp. Heinrich Baumann, whose "resignation" from the Stuttgart municipal council was noted a few days later, was among those arrested. Baumann, who had also been chairman of the Waldheim Association since February 18, 1933 , tried to continue his duties in this position while in prison. His efforts were in vain; on March 13, 1933, the association was dissolved.

On the occasion of his mother's funeral on July 25, 1933, Baumann was released from the concentration camp on the condition that he report to the police every day. However , he had lost his job at Maur due to the arrest. The family's financial situation was precarious, as they had to live on Baumann's unemployment benefit and short-term employment as an emergency worker. Eventually he found a job as a warehouse manager at the Schenker company, where he worked until his arrest in 1944. After the attack on July 20, 1944, Baumann was arrested as a suspect and taken to Dachau concentration camp. He was held as protective prisoner No. 93038, although it could not be proven that he was involved in the attack. Allegedly he died of pleurisy .

Commemoration

Stolperstein Stuttgart, Heinrich-Baumann-Strasse 25

In 1946 the Champignystraße was renamed Heinrich-Baumann-Straße. On January 29, 1952, an application was made to rename the company. This was not rejected because they wanted to keep the memory of Heinrich Baumann alive, but because an understanding with France about the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany would have been made more difficult by the renaming of the street as Champignystraße. In 1956 the street should be renamed again. This time the name "Moselstrasse" was proposed, which would no longer have reminded of the battle of Villiers-Champigny . This time too, the request was not granted. But it wasn't until 32 years later that the street signs were provided with a reference to Baumann's life because a resident had insisted.

In front of the house at Heinrich-Baumann-Straße 25, a stumbling block was laid in memory of Heinrich Baumann.

A portrait of Baumann hangs in the Heinrich Baumann Hall in Waldheim Sillenbuch .

literature

• Harald Stingele, Heinrich Baumann: The transport worker in the Stuttgart municipal council , in: Harald Stingele (ed.), Stuttgarter Stolpersteine. Traces of Forgotten Neighbors , Markstein Verlag, 3rd edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-7918-8033-4 , pp. 52–57

Web links

• Harald Stingele: Heinrich Baumann: The transport worker in the Stuttgart municipal council

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The dispute over Heinrich-Baumann-Strasse
2. ↑ Harald Stingele, Heinrich Baumann: The transport worker in the Stuttgart municipal council , in: Harald Stingele (ed.), Stuttgarter Stolpersteine. Traces of Forgotten Neighbors , Markstein Verlag, 3rd edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-7918-8033-4 , pp. 52–57, here p. 55