Rudolf Bäumer (politician)

Rudolf Bäumer (born November 29, 1901 in Ennigloh ; † September 25, 1973 in Bünde ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After attending school, Bäumer completed an apprenticeship as a tool lathe operator. After 1918 he became involved in the German Metalworkers' Association , the predecessor of IG Metall , where he headed the paying office in Bünde. After the trade unions were banned by the National Socialists , he worked again in the profession he had learned, from 1943 to 1945 he was a soldier in the Second World War.

From 1945 to 1953 Bäumer worked as an employment broker at the local employment office before he became managing director of the consumer cooperative Bünde- Lübbecke in 1953 .

Political party

Bäumer was a member of the SPD, whose local chairman in Ennigloh he was from 1927 to 1933 and again after 1945.

MP

Bäumer was a member of the Ennigloh representative office from 1928 to 1933 and again from 1946. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1957 to 1965 . In 1957 he entered the Bundestag via the SPD's state list in North Rhine-Westphalia and in 1961 won the direct mandate in the constituency of Herford-City and -Land . After he was a member of the Federal Assembly as a member of the Bundestag in 1959 and 1964 , the NRW Landtag elected him to the fifth Federal Assembly, which in 1969 elected Gustav Heinemann , a Social Democrat, for the first time as Federal President .

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 30.