August Knop

August Knop

August Alfred Heinrich Knop (born September 25, 1903 in Boffzen an der Weser , † March 28, 1994 in Bad Wörishofen ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

After attending school, August Knop earned his living as an engineer . In May 1925 he joined the NSDAP, in which his brothers Walter Knop and Wilhelm Knop were also active. In this he took over the office of local group leader in 1926. In 1929 he became NSDAP district leader and from May 9, 1931 also NSDAP district leader in Hanover.

In 1933 Knop became a member of the state parliament of Braunschweig . From 1934 to 1942 he was the district administrator for the Holzminden district . In 1941 he was appointed Gauleiter Deputy in South Hanover-Braunschweig . In 1942, Knop moved into the National Socialist Reichstag as a replacement for Hanns Kerrl , of which he was a member until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 194–195.
• E. Kienast (Ed.): The Greater German Reichstag 1938, fourth electoral period. R. v. Decker's Verlag, G. Schenck, June edition, Berlin 1943.
• Dieter Lent: Knop, August. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 328 .
• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .