Kuno Popp
Kuno Popp (born October 25, 1893 in Coburg , † March 4, 1973 in London ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).
Live and act
After attending primary and secondary school, Kuno Popp completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1908 to 1911 at a commercial school in Coburg. In 1911 and 1912 he worked as a commercial clerk in the Demmer works in Eisenach , and then from 1912 to 1914 with Adolf Hopf in Tambach .
From November 4, 1914 to December 1, 1918 Popp belonged to the 4th Lower Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 143. During the First World War , Popp was deployed on the Western Front , near Ypres and in front of Verdun and was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Coburg Medal of Merit.
From 1919 Popp devoted himself to self-study in art history . From 1921 to 1934 he ran an independent art shop.
On July 1, 1929, Popp joined the NSDAP ( membership number 141,069), for which he was involved as a party speaker and in the SA . He took on his first public office as a city councilor in Coburg.
After the former mayor of Coburg, Franz Schwede , was appointed Gauleiter in Gau Pomerania by Adolf Hitler in July 1934 , he took Popp with him to Pomerania as a confidante. On September 1, 1934, he was appointed Gau Propaganda Head and on September 17, 1934, Head of the Pomeranian State Office of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda . On October 7, 1936, Popp was also appointed head of the Landesfremdenverkehrsverbandes in his home country and on October 9, 1936 he was accepted into the Prussian Provincial Council in Pomerania.
In the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936, he applied unsuccessfully for a mandate. On July 1, 1937, Popp entered the replacement process for the resigned Artur Kauffmann as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag , to which he belonged as a representative of constituency 6 (Pomerania) until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945.
On January 30, 1938, Popp was awarded the NSDAP's Golden Decoration of Honor. Popp was last promoted to Standartenführer in the SA in November 1942 .
Popp last lived in Munich . After his death in London he was buried in Coburg.
literature
- 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 , p. 474 .
Web links
- Kuno Popp in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kyran T. Inachin: The Pomeranian Gau - a Prussian province as a Nazi Gau. In: Jürgen John, Horst Möller, Thomas Schaarschmidt (eds.): The NS-Gaue: regional middle instances in the centralized "Führer state". (= Series of quarterly issues for contemporary history: special issue ). Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58086-0 , p. 280.
- ^ Klaus D. Patzwall : The Golden Party Badge and its honorary awards 1934-1944 . Patzwall, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-931533-50-6 , p. 82 .
- ↑ Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999 - from the "good old days" to the dawn of the 21st century. Against forgetting . Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse, Coburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-006732-9 , p. 275.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Popp, Kuno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4th 1973 |
| Place of death | London |