About us

finibus Verwaltungs UG is a German company that sees significant shortcomings in politics and its communication and therefore provides advice.

Finibus is Latin (finis = goal and end) and means “through the goals”.

Hans Peter Baumhauer is responsible for the content of this homepage.

Some information about the person: The most important thing first: I am not important!

What is important is the content, the message, the understanding of the world in its structure.

6 years of business high school with English and French were formative. For the study of ancient rhetoric, philosophy and Catholic theology, the knowledge of ancient languages as ancient Greek, ancient Hebrew and Latin were necessary and added. In almost 10 years at universities, the subjects of Italian literature and economic history were also added. Then followed years of business consulting.

Then there are three children and the feeling of all fathers that love as an abstract duty to earn a living and love as subjective devotion to children get into a conflict that is usually only insufficiently resolved.

The grandfather was a blacksmith and had a coal business, with which he supplied the population of a village of several thousand inhabitants. He was a staunch supporter of the Weimar Republic and belonged to the Centre Party of the time. My father, who was born in 1920, was 19 years old at the beginning of World War II and was not drafted because he and his father were indispensable for supplying the population with coal, a physically very difficult job.

When the news broke that World War II had begun, the family sat around the table and cried. From their democratic point of view, the family detested Hitler’s Germany, which had seized power with around 33% of the vote.

In 1942, in the still “militarily successful phase”, my father was asked by the mayor, what he thought of the war: “A mouse has never eaten an elephant”. This answer was enough to put him in the mustering office a few days later for the Russian war at the front. It was then averted that he was drafted, because of the supply situation of the population. About 10 months before the end of the war, he was drafted after all. With 8 soldiers and a commander, they were supposed to defend the home front at a certain point. In increasingly open communication, everyone deserted, as they did not want to kill anyone and, of course, hoped that they could escape the Nazi firing squads, which they did. My mother’s father had a small inn in another village and was summoned several times by the Nazis for his “free speeches” and was always in danger of being deported. No one from the family saw themselves as heroes, but everyone was shocked by the miserable conditions into which one could get from a functioning democracy with the best integrated Judaism in the world into such a devastating situation. These few stories, which were always accompanied by great discomfort and gave an idea of a deep traumatization, had a great influence on me.

Until I graduated from high school in economics, although I was Catholic, I was active for many years almost exclusively in the Protestant church, together with a school friend who later became a Protestant pastor. As a devout Catholic, I sing in the church choir today and so I am in church twice a week, which brings great joy.

I have heart and mind and therefore it is unbearable to have to discover structures similar to those in the Hitler era, which caused so much suffering. Everything else is unimportant. The only important thing is the recognition and perception of today’s structures and the conclusions arising from them. I would like to make a personal contribution to this.