Emil Knapp
Johann Emil Karl Friedrich Knapp (born March 18, 1886 in Lübeck ; † January 17, 1973 there ) was a German trade union official and politician of the SPD .
Life
The former Emil Knapp was the son of a master carpenter and joined the SPD and IG Metall in 1904 . In 1918 he was a member of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Lübeck. From 1919 to 1933 he belonged to the Lübeck citizenship as a state parliament, the inner core of the SPD faction around Julius Leber . In 1933 he was immediately persecuted by the National Socialists, as a result of which he was unemployed and imprisoned several times until 1945. He belonged to the municipal Lübeck citizenship from 1946 to 1955 and was also an honorary senator of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck during the same period. From 1928 Knapp was managing director of IG Metall in Lübeck and from 1945 chairman of the DGB local committee.
Honors
- Honor plaque of the Senate (1955)
literature
- Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, pp. 134/135
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| SURNAME | Close, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knapp, Johann Emil Karl Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade union official and SPD politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th January 1973 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |