Paul Knapp (pastor, 1880)

Paul Knapp (* 1880 in Königsberg i. Pr .; † April 1946 ibid) was a German Protestant pastor.

Life

Knapp was born the son of a teacher. He studied Protestant theology at the Albertus University in Königsberg and became a member of the Germania Königsberg fraternity in the summer semester of 1899 . During the First World War he was a division pastor . As a non-combatant, he received the Iron Cross on a white ribbon and the Iron Cross 1st Class. As the successor to Eduard Korallus , he came in 1933 as the last pastor of the Tragheim Church . Even before the Nazis came to power, Knapp had become a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . He also joined the German Christians in 1933 , but after a short time became the first pastor in Königsberg to become a member of the Confessing Church . Reported because of his sermons, he was expelled from the NSDAP by a party court . After the surrender of Otto Lasch he was from the Red Army with 18,000 men in the Konigsberg Wagenhallen the barracks in Rothstein (Koenigsberg) set. Released in the summer of 1945, he held Sunday services in front of the burned-out church. Despite the self-sacrificing efforts of the rest of the community and the doctor Oskar Ehrhardt, Knapp starved to death in April 1946.

Paul Knapp , in: Emil Popp: Memories - From the history of the fraternity Germania Königsberg , Hamburg 1993. P. 200–211.

personal data
SURNAME	Close, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH	April 1946
Place of death	Königsberg (Prussia)