What is Gerhart Baum?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Gerhart Baum | honorific-suffix = Bundesminister a. D.<!-- Please do not remove it, it is currently his official title in Germany. --> | image = 2023-10-30-Gerhart Baum-Hart aber fair-1474.jpg | caption = Baum in 2023 | office = [[Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany)|Federal Minister of the Interior]] | chancellor = [[Helmut Schmidt]] | term_start = 8 June 1978 | term_end = 17 September 1982 | predecessor = [[Werner Maihofer]] | successor = [[Jürgen Schmude]] | office1 = [[Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany)|Parliamentary Secretary of State for the Interior]] | chancellor1 = [[Helmut Schmidt]] | term_start1 = 15 December 1972 | term_end1 = 8 June 1978 | predecessor1 = Wolfram Dorn | successor1 = [[Andreas von Schoeler]] | office2 = Member of the [[Bundestag]] for [[North Rhine–Westphalia]] | term_start2 = 19 November 1972 | term_end2 = 16 October 1994 | constituency2 = [[Electoral system of Germany|State Wide Party List]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|10|28|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Dresden]], Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2025|2|15|1932|10|28}} | death_place = [[Cologne]], Germany | party = [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]] (FDP) | relations = | residence = | alma_mater = [[University of Cologne]] | profession = Lawyer | religion = | signature = Unterschrift Gerhart Baum deutscher Politiker (FDP).png | website = {{URL|gerhart-baum.de}} | footnotes = }} '''Gerhart Rudolf Baum''' (28 October 1932 – 15 February 2025) was a German politician of the [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|Free Democratic Party]] (FDP) and a lawyer. He was the [[Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany)|Minister of the Interior]]