Paul Baecker

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Paul Baecker

Paul Wilhelm Erich Baecker (born October 27, 1874 in Eberspark , Wirsitz district ; † January 23, 1946 in Berlin-Zehlendorf ) was a German journalist and politician ( DNVP ).

Life and work

After graduating from the Humanistic Gymnasium in Schneidemühl , Baecker studied medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1893 . He later changed faculties and began studying history and economics , which he did not graduate. During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Berlin . After leaving the university in 1897, he turned to journalism and worked as an editor for the Deutsche Zeitung and the Akademischen Blätter . In addition, he worked as a writer. At the beginning of 1907 he switched to the German daily newspaper in Berlin as an editor . He was its editor-in-chief from 1917 to 1922 and in this capacity emerged as one of the first journalistic advocates of the stab in the back of the legend . He was then head of the newspaper's parliamentary service. From 1922 he was chairman of the Reich Association of the German Press . In addition, since 1929 he was a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council .

MP

Baecker was a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1921 to 1932 . He left the DNVP parliamentary group on August 7, 1930, was initially non-attached and became a member of the German parliamentary group on October 14, 1930. The German parliamentary group was a parliamentary working group that was formed on June 8, 1928 from the members of the CNBL , the DHP , the Völkisch-Nationalen Block and the Reichspartei für Volksrecht und Aufwertung . In the Reichstag election in May 1924 , he was elected to the German Reichstag , of which he was a member until 1928.

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  1. ^ Hans Güldner, Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations : Directory of honorary members and old men. Gütersloh 1899, p. 7.