Karl Bauer (politician, 1889)

Karl Bauer (* 1889 in Arnbach near Neuenbürg , † 1967 in Heidelberg ) was a trade unionist , opponent of National Socialism and a politician .

Life

Karl Bauer attended the goldsmith's and then the arts and crafts school in Pforzheim . Since he could not find a job as an engraver , he went into the hotel and restaurant trade. He became a member of the trade union and the SPD and in 1924 full-time trade union secretary of the restaurant staff association u. a. in Heidelberg.

After the unions were broken up on May 2, 1933, Bauer earned a living for his family as an insurance agent.

In October 1935 the Gestapo arrested Karl Bauer, who was living in Pforzheim, for importing and distributing “treasonable pamphlets from abroad”. The newspaper of the “International Association of Hotel, Restaurant and Coffee House Employees”, which called for the overthrow of the Hitler dictatorship, is among the large number of pamphlets that the Gestapo found during the house search. A large number of addresses, including abroad, proved to the Gestapo that Bauer was trying to set up an SPD resistance group. On March 16, 1936, he was sentenced to 22 months in prison by the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court.

After they were released from prison, Bauer and his wife were constantly followed by the Gestapo. After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was deported to the Dachau concentration camp without interrogation or charge .

After the liberation, Karl Bauer was mayor of Heidelberg until 1948 and later chairman of the food-pleasure-restaurants (NGG) union in Baden-Württemberg.

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• Pforzheimer Kurier, April 27, 1995