Simon Wilhelm Bartmann

Simon Wilhelm Bartmann (born July 13, 1878 in Bersztóc German  Rustendorf , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † November 9, 1944 in Pancsova , German Panschowa , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) was a Yugoslav lawyer , notary , judge and co-founder of the Yugoslav -German Swabian-German Cultural Association .

Life

Bartmann attended high schools in Versec (German Werschetz ) and Nagybecskerek (German Groß-Betschkerek ) from 1888 to 1896 . He studied from 1896 to 1901 jurisprudence in Budapest and received his doctorate in 1902 for Dr. jur. After his internship he settled as a lawyer in Pantschowa and married Hermine Schwalm in 1908 , the daughter of the vernacular narrator Jörg von der Schwalm . Between 1914 and 1918 he was a reserve officer on the Italian front of the First World War . In the autumn of 1918 he returned to Pantschowa as a captain from a hospital and was appointed city ​​commandant there for a short time .

Bartmann was a co-founder of the Swabian-German Cultural Association in Yugoslavia and from 1920 headed its local group Panschowa . In 1922 the authorities of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes dismissed his judicial office and denounced him as a communist . After German troops marched into the Serbian Banat , he was appointed a public notary . Bartmann was shot dead on November 9, 1944 in the Pantschowa camp after he was captured by partisans of the People's Liberation Army under Josip Broz Tito .

literature

• Bartmann Simon Wilhelm. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 51 f. (Direct links on p. 51 , p. 52 ).
• Der Donauschwabe , Volume 13, No. 28, 1978.

Web links

• Bartmann, Simon Wilhelm . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)