Karl Baumbach

Karl Adolf Baumbach

Karl Adolf Baumbach (born February 9, 1844 in Meiningen , † January 21, 1896 in Danzig ) was a German politician.

Life

The younger brother of the poet Rudolf Baumbach (1840–1905) studied law and political science at the universities of Jena , Heidelberg , Leipzig and Berlin from 1862–1865 . He did his doctorate in law. He later became district judge in Saalfeld an der Saale and, in 1878, district administrator in Sonneberg in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen .

Friends of the politician Eduard Lasker (1829-1884), he joined the National Liberal Party and was elected to the German Reichstag in a by-election in Meiningen in 1880 . With the so-called "Secessionists" he left the party in August 1880, joined the merger with the German Progressive Party and was elected a member of the Reichstag in 1884 and 1890 by the 5th Berlin constituency . As a representative of the German Liberal Party , he joined the executive committee of the Reichstag on May 7, 1890, as second vice-president.

During debates about the admission of women to German universities, Karl Baumbach stated in the Reichstag in 1893 that August Bebel (1840–1913) had thoroughly refuted the objection that women were not mentally equal to men.

At the end of 1890 he was elected Lord Mayor of Danzig and in January 1891 he was elected to the Prussian mansion for this city . He was also a member of the West Prussian Provincial Parliament .

District President Adolf von Heppe publicly criticized his salary of 15,000 marks (Baumbach's predecessor had received 12,000 marks) and, as chairman of the district assembly, demanded a new tender to find a cheaper mayor. This was heavily criticized in public and probably the reason for the transfer of Adolf von Heppe to Trier.

Works

State Lexicon. Handbook for every citizen to know the public law and the state life of all countries, especially the German Reich. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1882.
The Colportagebuchhandel and the Gewerbeovelle (= economic issues of the time. Lectures and treatises. Vol. 5, No. 1 = No. 33, ZDB -ID 2603594-7 ). Simion, Berlin 1883.
The normal working day (= economic time issues. Lectures and papers. Vol. 7, No. 6 = No. 54). Simion, Berlin 1885.
Women’s work and protection of women (= Economic Time Issues. Lectures and Treatises. Vol. 11, No. 1 = No. 81). Simion, Berlin 1889.
The German Reichstag (= Freund's political handbooks. Vol. 1, ZDB -ID 271637-9 ). Freund, Breslau 1890.
The Kolportagebuchhandel and its adversaries (= economic issues of the time. Lectures and treatises. Vol. 15, No. 6 = No. 1185). Simion, Berlin 1894.

Baumbach edited the legal part of the edition of Meyer's Konversationslexikon from this time.

literature

Heinz Otto Burger: Baumbach, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 654 f. ( Digitized version ). (Secondary entry)
Biographical yearbook and German necrology. Vol. 2, 1897, ZDB -ID 217208-2 .
Acta Borussica , Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry , Volume 8 / II, p. 602. ( Online ).

Web links

Baumbach, Karl Adolf in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Karl Adolf Baumbach . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library

Individual evidence

↑ Ursula Herrmann: Women and Social Democracy 1871 to 1910. On the struggle of German Social Democracy and the Second International for women's emancipation. In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement. Vol. 41, No. 2, 1999, ISSN 0942-3060 , pp. 59-71, digitized version (PDF; 508.2 kB) ( Memento from September 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive ).
^ Albrecht Vienna: The Prussian administration of the administrative district of Danzig. (1870–1920) (= studies on the history of Prussia. Vol. 21). Grote, Köln et al. 1974, ISBN 3-7745-6325-X , p. 20 (at the same time: Bonn, Universität, Dissertation, 1973).

personal data
SURNAME	Baumbach, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Baumbach, Karl Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meiningen , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH	January 21, 1896
Place of death	Danzig

[1] Ursula Herrmann: Women and Social Democracy 1871 to 1910. On the struggle of German Social Democracy and the Second International for women's emancipation. In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement. Vol. 41, No. 2, 1999, ISSN 0942-3060 , pp. 59-71, digitized version (PDF; 508.2 kB) ( Memento from September 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive ).

[2] Albrecht Vienna: The Prussian administration of the administrative district of Danzig. (1870–1920) (= studies on the history of Prussia. Vol. 21). Grote, Köln et al. 1974, ISBN 3-7745-6325-X , p. 20 (at the same time: Bonn, Universität, Dissertation, 1973).