Baumann an haife shi ne a Schramberg, inda ya sami Abitur a 1973 daga Gymnasium Schramberg. Daga nan sai ya yi karatun kimiyyar zamantakewa da gudanarwa a Jami'ar Konstanz, ya ƙware a harkokin gudanarwa na kasa da kasa, kuma a 1975 ya yi karatun tarihin fasaha a Jami'ar Bristol, a Burtaniya. Ya sami digiri a fannin gudanarwa a 1979 daga Jami'ar Konstanz kuma ya ci gaba da samun digiri a fannin kimiyyar siyasa a 1992 daga Jami'ar Carleton a Ottawa, Ontario, Kanada. Matarsa, Barbara Gibson, jami'in diflomasiyya ne na Kanada. Ta yi aiki daga 2004 zuwa 2008 a matsayin jakada a Kungiyar Tsaro da Hadin gwiwa a Turai a Vienna, a 2015 a matsayin Mataimakin Sakatare Janar kuma a 2016 a matsayin Sakatare Janar na ICM, Hukumar Mai Zaman Kanta kan Multilateralism (MIC) a New York. Tambaya: Me Baumann ya yi a jami'ar zane-zane?
Jami'ar Bristol