Marie Baum

Marie Baum was born in Danzig, West Prussia, German Empire (now Gdańsk, Poland) on 23 March 1874.^[1] She was one of six children; her father was a hospital director.^[1] She studied chemistry at the University of Zürich, where she met Ricarda Huch, passing her teaching examinations in 1897 and then gaining her doctorate in 1899.^[1] From 1897 to 1899 she worked at the ETH Zürich, and afterwards she moved to Berlin, where she worked as a chemist at the Anilin Manufacturing Company. Baum worked as a factory inspector from 1902 to 1907, which exposed her to the working conditions of women throughout the country, and she began to engage in politics and social welfare. .^[1] She began to publish social science papers around this time.^[1] In 1919, representing the German Democratic Party, she was elected a member of the Weimar National Assembly for Schleswig-Holstein. She was one of the first female members of the Weimar National Assembly.^[2][3]

Baum advocated for better working conditions and for public welfare. She later became involved in advocating for the victims of the Nazi regime.^[1]

Baum died in Heidelberg on 8 August 1964.^[1]

• 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