Marie Baum

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Marie Baum
Weimar National Assembly
In office
1919–1920
ConstituencySchleswig-Holstein
Personal details
Born(1874-03-23)23 March 1874
Danzig, West Prussia, German Empire
Died8 August 1964(1964-08-08) (aged 90)
Heidelberg, West Germany
Political partyGerman Democratic Party (DDP)

Marie Baum (23 March 1874 – 8 August 1964), was a German politician of the German Democratic Party (DDP) and social activist. She was one of the first female members of the Weimar National Assembly. She was a pioneer within German welfare and workers security.

Marie Baum was born in Danzig, West Prussia, German Empire (Gdańsk, Poland). She studied chemistry at the University of Zürich, where she met Ricarda Huch. From 1897 to 1899 she worked at the ETH Zürich, afterwards she moved to Berlin, where she started to engage in politics and social welfare in 1902. In 1919, representing the German Democratic Party, she was elected a member of the Weimar National Assembly for Schleswig-Holstein.[1][2]

Works[]

  • Grundriss der Gesundheitsfürsorge, München 1923
  • Familienfürsorge, Karlsruhe 1928
  • Das Familienleben in der Gegenwart. 182 Familienmonographien, Berlin 1930
  • Rückblick auf mein Leben, Heidelberg 1950
  • Leuchtende Spur. Das Leben Ricarda Huchs, Tübingen 1950
  • Aus einem Lebensbild Anna von Gierkes, in: Mädchenbildung und Frauenschaffen, Heft 2/1952, Seiten 1–12.
  • Anna von Gierke. Ein Lebensbild, Weinheim/Basel 1954
  • Introduction to The Diary of Anne Frank, Amsterdam 1950

References[]

  1. ^ "biography" (in German). Munzinger-Archiv.
  2. ^ Hansen, Eckhard; Tennstedt, Florian (2010). Bd. 1: Sozialpolitiker im deutschen Kaiserreich 1871-1918 (PDF). Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte der deutschen Sozialpolitik 1871-1945 (in German). Kassel: Kassel University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6.
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