Joseph Baumgartner
Joseph Baumgartner, Josef Baumgartner ( born November 16, 1904 in Sulzemoos, Upper Bavaria, † January 21, 1964 in Munich) was a Bavarian politician ( BVP, later CSU, Bavaria Party). Joseph Baumgartner pleaded for a liberal, democratic and independent Bavaria.
Life
After the Latin school of the Benedictine monastery Scheyern visited Baumgartner, one of six children of a small farmer from Sulzemoos near Dachau, the grammar school in Freising. 1925 to 1929 he studied philosophy, history and economics in Munich. The study, he finished a degree in economics, and Dr. rer. pol. In 1929 he was a volunteer at the Upper Bavarian Christian Farmers Association from 1929 to 1933, he was Deputy Secretary-General of the Bavarian Farmers Association and member of the Bavarian People's Party ( BVP ). In 1933 he was an employee at the Allianz Insurance Group. For the Nazi dictatorship Baumgartner was also because of his Christian worldview at a distance. Under the Nazis, he was in 1942 because of an alleged violation of the treachery law shortly by the Gestapo, from which he was released into the military.
Since January 1945 Baumgartner personnel officer was at the Office of Food and Agriculture in Munich. After the war he was one of the founders of the CSU. October 5, 1945 to December 12, 1947, he was a Bavarian Minister of Agriculture.
From 1946 until his death was Baumgartner Landtag in Bavaria. 1948 left the college professor, the CSU and joined the newly founded Bavaria party. In the Bavarian Party Baumgartner came in the three-member Board of the party. Until 1952, then again from 1953 to 1959 he was chairman of Bavaria party.
Since January 1948 he has held a teaching position at the Agricultural College in Weihenstephan. In the first term, he was elected on the regional list of the Bayern party in the German parliament, put the mandate on January 1, 1951 but down in order to devote himself to his duties in Bavaria.
Baumgartner led within the BP Group to Ludwig Volkholz, Ludwig Lallinger, Jacob Fischbacher and Ernst Falkner, who put on a principled opposition to the CSU. The Bavaria Party was a popular in many parts of the Bavarian population chairman in Baumgartner. Many of his statements reflected the opinions of parts of the population, as for example, that the denazification a ' Entbazifizierung ' must follow.
As chairman of the Bavarian Party Baumgartner was 1957 chairman of the coalition party Federal Union.
During the four-party coalition led by Wilhelm Hoegner from Bavaria Party, SPD, FDP and the GB / BHE in the years 1954 to 1957 he was deputy prime minister of Bavaria and again Minister of Agriculture.
In Untersuchersuchungsausschuss the Bavarian Parliament, it was alleged that he and Max Klotz had accepted money from a casino licensees. S. 94 f This dealer showed previously even on after he had been offered by the high-level CSU politician Friedrich Zimmermann in return a license. Cited in: S. 359
A judgment of the District Court of Munich because of ' perjury ' was never legally because Baumgartner was unfit to stand trial in the trial edition.
1964 Baumgartner died of a stroke.
The CSU and the Bayern party then wrestled for power in Bavaria. For the Bayern party this affair was a blow from which it has been long time never recovered. S. 97 Due to the decline of Bavaria party the CSU managed to carve out for the majority party.