Adolf Baeumker

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Adolf Baeumker
NSDAP (Nazi party)

Adolf Georg Heinrich Klemens Vinzenz Baeumker (July 14, 1891 - March 4, 1976) was a German officer. From the 1920s to the 1950s, he was an official of various military and civil aviation research institutions.

Life

The son of a philosophy professor began his military career in the Prussian Army in 1908. After attending the military school in

from military service and was until 1932 consultant for research and development of aviation in the Reich Ministry of Transport, from 1931 with the civil rank of a senior government councilor.

Nazi era

Baeumker joined the

in 1933. From 1933 to 1941 he was head of the Aviation Research and Development Department at the Reichswehr Ministry, from 1938 he was ministerial director. He played a key role in the expansion and development of German aviation research institutes, founded the "Association for Aviation Research" in 1933, the "Lilienthal Society for Aviation Research" two years later, and in 1936 the "German Academy of Aviation Research". Baeumker was chancellor of this academy from 1937. On his initiative, the "Central for Scientific Reporting of Aviation Research of the General Aircraft Master (ZWB)" was founded in Berlin-Adlershof on November 1, 1933; it was not only a documentation center for specialist literature, but also played an important role in authorizing publications.

The US

In 1938 at the request of the United States military, Charles Lindbergh traveled to Germany to evaluate German aviation.^[3] At a dinner hosted by the US ambassador to Germany Hugh Wilson, Lindbergh was presented the Order of the German Eagle by Germany's air chief, Hermann Göring, in attendance was Anne Lindbergh, Evangeline Lindbergh, and German aviation figures: Ernst Heinkel, Adolf Baeumker, and Willy Messerschmitt.^[4]

Baeumker was also instrumental in the history and the emergence of the engineering school for aviation technology (IFL). In 1942 he became chairman of the Munich aviation research institute, and for the last three years of the war he had been part of the Luftwaffe's research leadership. He also did his doctorate at the

in 1944.

In 1941 he became an honorary citizen of the Technical University of Munich. [1]

Postwar

After 1945, Baeumker worked in the United States as a consultant to the

.

In 1961 he received the Great Cross of Merit. Since 1967 he lived as

, where he died in 1976.

Selected works

Advice to the authorities from outside experts. explained using the example of German and American aviation. Comments on a topic of state management (= long-term planning of research and development, No. 40) Bad Godesberg, 1970

Thoughts on Problems of Change in Power (= Long-Term Planning of Research and Development, No. 32) Bad Godesberg, 1967

On the basic division of the top military leadership. The special German needs here (= long-term planning of research and development, No. 20). Bad Godesberg: self-published, 1964

Long-term research and development plans for defense . Bad Godesberg: self-published, 1959

Literature

• Michael Grüttner : Biographisches Lexikon zur nationalsozialistischen Wissenschaftspolitik (= Studien zur Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte. Band 6), Synchron, Heidelberg 2004,
  ISBN 3-935025-68-8
  , p. 18.
• Literature by and about Adolf Baeumker in the catalog of the German National Library
• ISBN 978-3-938690-34-5
  , p. 989.

Norm data (person): GND : 120662795 | LCCN : no95034168 | VIAF : 47597868 | Wikipedia people search

References

External links

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• Newspaper clippings about Adolf Baeumker in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW