Josef Baumhoff

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Josef Baumhoff (born September 10, 1887 in Finnentrop , † January 26, 1962 in Cologne ) was a German civil servant , newspaper editor and politician of the Center Party .

Life

Baumhoff first attended elementary school, then the Catholic rectorate school and finally the high schools in Hagen and Attendorn . After completing his school career, he entered the postal service and was appointed postal assistant in 1904, postal assistant in 1908, postal secretary in 1915 and chief postal secretary in 1921 and a short time later chief postal inspector. In 1933 he was forced to retire.

Baumhoff joined the Center Party, was initially elected district chairman and later was a member of the executive board of the Westphalian and Prussian Center Party, which he represented in the Westphalian provincial parliament between 1919 and 1921 . He also became a city ​​councilor in Hagen. From 1921 Baumhoff was a member of the Reichsparteivorstand of the center and a member of the Prussian state parliament . From November 28, 1929 to 1933, he was Second Vice President of Parliament. In 1930 he was also the chairman of a parliamentary committee of inquiry in connection with the referendum against the Young Plan . In addition, he was active in the civil servants' movement and worked as union chairman of the civil servants' and teachers' association for the province of Westphalia . He was also the first chairman of the Reichsbeamtenbeirat of the Center Party.

Political persecution under National Socialism

On August 22, 1944, Baumhoff was arrested after the assassination attempt on Hitler as part of the Gewitter campaign , one day later he was admitted to the Cologne Gestapo prison EL-DE-Haus and from there as a protective prisoner together with friends such as Konrad Adenauer , Thomas Eßer , Joseph Roth , Peter Schlack , Peter Paffenholz , Peter Knab and Otto Gerig transferred to the labor education camp in the exhibition halls in Cologne-Deutz. Together with Gerig, Roth, Knab and Schlack, he was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp on September 16, 1944 and housed there in cell block 45, but was released several days later. His concentration camp number was 81589.

post war period

Politically, after the Second World War , Baumhoff spoke out against the establishment of the Center Party and in favor of the non-denominational CDU . In 1945 Baumhoff was appointed President of the Cologne Post Office. He held this position until 1953. In addition, Baumhoff was after 1945 one of the license holders and publisher of the Kölnische Rundschau . He was also chairman of the supervisory board of Adler-Feuerversicherungs-AG. Baumhoff was killed in a traffic accident.

Honors

In 1952 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested on May 1, 1952 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

In 1953 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

1958 he was by Pope Pius XII. the Knights of the Order of the Holy Pope Sylvester beaten.

Literature and Sources

  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 9th edition, Leipzig 1928, p. 76.
  • Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 306/307.
  • Archive of the Buchenwald Memorial
  • Konrad-Adenauer Foundation Sankt Augustin, Gerig estate and biography of Joseph Roth
  • Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 170.
  • Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates for the January elections in 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 32f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internationales Rotes Kreuz Bad Arolsen, archive: Extract from the block relocations of the Buchenwald concentration camp, relocations on September 29, 1944 from the tent camp. Sheet 659
  2. ↑ AAS 50 (1958), n.10, p. 502.


personal data
SURNAME Baumhoff, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and politician (center), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Finnentrop
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1962
Place of death Cologne