Richard Knorre (politician)

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Richard Knorre (20 November 1900 – 28 September 1964) was a Sudeten German politician.

Biography[edit]

Knorre was born on 20 November 1900 in Mährisch Ostrau.[1][2] He worked as a clerk in Rýmařov.[2] Knorre was the leader of the Sudeten German Homeland Front (SdHF) in Rýmařov.[3] He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1935 Czechoslovak parliamentary election from the Olomouc electoral district, as a candidate of the Sudeten German Party (SdP). In the SdP Knorre belonged to the Aufbruchkreis faction.[1] By late 1937 he was subject to a disciplinary process in the party, in connection with the expulsion of Rudolf Kasper [de] from the party. On 1 November 1938, he became a member of the NSDAP.[1]

As of 1939, he was the kreisobmann of the German Labour Front (DAF) in Landkreis Mährisch Trübau [de].[4] His career in DAF and NSDAP was cut short. On 13 September 1939, the High Inspection Office of DAF in Berlin issued a decision, stating that Knorre's management of his local DAF organization had been 'negligent'. On 12 November 1939, the Mährisch Trübau District Court issued a warning to Knorre, whereby he would be removed from office in the party for a period of three years.[1]

After World War II Knorre lived in Duisburg and Cologne. He died in Cologne on 28 September 1964.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Mads Ole Balling (1991). Von Reval bis Bukarest: statistisch-biographisches Handbuch der Parlamentarier der deutschen Minderheiten in Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa 1919-1945. Ungarn, Jugoslawien, Rumänien, Slowakei, Karpatenukraine, Kroatien, Memelländischer Landtag, Schlesischer Landtag ; komparative Analyse, Quellen und Literatur, Register. Bd 2 (in German). Dokumentation Verlag. p. 413. ISBN 9788798382911.
  2. ^ a b Černý, Bohumil; Cesar, Jaroslav (1962). Politika německých buržoazních stran v Československu v letech 1918–1938. Nakladatelství Československé akademie vĕd. p. 552.
  3. ^ Mnichov 1938. Český svaz protifašistických bojovníků, 1988. p. 234
  4. ^ Rademacher, Michael (2000). Handbuch der NSDAP-Gaue, 1928-1945: die Amtsträger der NSDAP und ihrer Organisationen auf Gau- und Kreisebene in Deutschland und Österreich sowie in den Reichsgauen Danzig-Westpreussen, Sudetenland und Wartheland (in German). M. Rademacher. p. 263. ISBN 978-3-8311-0216-7.