Peter Baum (politician)

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Peter Baum (born May 16, 1883 in Cologne ; † December 12, 1944 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German local politician ( SPD ).

Life

The trained lathe operator was unionized from an early age. He held various positions in the free trade unions and was a member of the works council of the Deutz engine factory . At the age of twenty he joined the SPD. In Dünnwald , where he had moved with his family in 1913, he soon became one of the best-known Social Democrats. Baum became chairman of the Free Local Cartel in Cologne-Dünnwald and, as an initiator, played a key role in founding the forest pool in Dünnwald.

Memorial plaque in the Spanish building for the Cologne city councilors who were victims of the Nazi dictatorship

In the election for the Cologne city council on March 12, 1933, Baum was elected city councilor for the SPD. Immediately after the first meeting on March 30, 1933, Baum was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned for several weeks. During the Nazi dictatorship, he was arrested three more times in the following years and held for several weeks.

In August 1944, after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , Hitler was arrested again as part of the " Operation Grid ". Initially imprisoned in the Deutz exhibition center , he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in September 1944. There he was killed with a rifle butt on December 12, 1944.

Baum left his wife and daughter.

Stolperstein An der Walkmühle 70, Cologne-Dünnwald

Honors

  • Baum's name is part of a plaque that was affixed in spring 1989 to the left of the entrance door to the conference room in Cologne's town hall (Spanish building), which commemorates the city councilors of Cologne who were victims of the National Socialists.
  • The Peter-Baum-Weg in Cologne-Dünnwald, which leads to the forest pool he initiated, was named after him.
  • A “ stumbling block ” was laid in front of his former home in Cologne-Dünnwald, An der Walkmühle 70 .

literature

  • Ulrike Puvogel, Martin Stankowski: Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism. A documentation . Volume I. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 573.
  • "They died for their convictions". A commemorative plaque in front of the council hall commemorates Cologne city councilors who were victims of the National Socialist dictatorship . In: Platzjabbeck , No. 1 (2011) (PDF; 430 kB), p. 6.

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Tree, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1944
Place of death Sachsenhausen concentration camp