Editing Gustav Bauer (section)

==Early life==
Bauer was born on 6 January 1870 in [[Darkehmen]], near [[Königsberg]] in the [[Province of Prussia]] (now [[Ozyorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast]], Russia) as the son of court bailiff Gustav Bauer and his wife Henriette (née Gross). From 1876 to 1884, he attended primary school in Königsberg. After 1884, he worked as an office assistant and then as head clerk for a lawyer at Königsberg.<ref name="DHM">{{cite web |last1=Kock |first1=Sonja |last2=Albrecht |first2=Kai-Britt |date=14 September 2014 |title=Gustav Bauer 1870–1944 |url=https://www.dhm.de/lemo/biografie/gustav-bauer |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=26 March 2024 |website=Deutsches Historisches Museum |publisher= |language=de}}</ref>

In 1895, he became president of the [[Union of Office Employees of Germany]], a white-collar union that he co-founded. He also was editor of the publication {{Lang|de|Der Büroangestellte}} ("The Office Worker") and in 1903 was named head of the Central Labour Secretariat of the Free Trade Unions in Berlin. In 1908, Bauer became second chairman of the General Commission of Trade Unions in Berlin, a position he held until 1918.<ref name="DHM"/>

On 2 October 1911, Bauer married Hedwig Moch.<ref name="DHM"/>