Peter Knab

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Peter Alois Knab (born December 23, 1895 in Kalk ; † July 22, 1963 in Enkirch ) was a German politician (KPD).

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Knab attended elementary school . He was then trained at the preparatory institute and at the teachers' seminar. He later studied at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne .

After the First World War , Knab was a member of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council in Weimar in 1918. In 1919 he joined the USPD . Together with the left wing of the USPD, he moved to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1920 . At this time he stepped out of the cath. Church off. In February 1921 Knab became a member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament in Düsseldorf, where he had also been a member of the Provincial Committee from March 1921. From May 1924 he was a city councilor of Cologne, where he worked as a teacher in Cologne-Deutz .

In September 1924 Knab reached the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic as part of a by-election in constituency 9 (Oppeln) , to which he belonged until the elections of December 1924.

After the National Socialist " seizure of power ", Knab was dismissed as a primary school teacher in August 1933 due to the law to restore the civil service . In November 1933 he was imprisoned for three weeks in the Klingelpütz prison in Cologne . Member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1937 , his application for reinstatement in the school service was unsuccessful and was rejected by the Cologne Regional Court in September 1942 . Knab was initially able to avoid an arrest warrant issued in June 1943 by going underground in Lower Silesia and the Bergisches Land. As part of the Gewitter campaign , he was arrested in August 1944 and interned in the exhibition halls in Cologne-Deutz, the Cologne exhibition center . He was deported from the exhibition center with Joseph Roth , Josef Baumhoff , Peter Schlack and Otto Gerig and other former politicians and also with the priest Alexander Heinrich Alef on September 16, 1944 to the Buchenwald concentration camp . First he came to the small camp and then he was housed in cell block 45 with Roth, Baumhoff and Gerig. Knab was held in Buchenwald concentration camp until liberation . His prisoner number was 81590.

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Web links

  • Peter Knab in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Bers: A regional structure of the KPD. Einhorn Presse Verlag, Reinbek b. Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-88756-021-3 , p. 210
  2. ^ Günter Bers: A regional structure of the KPD. Einhorn Presse Verlag, Reinbek b. Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-88756-021-3 , p. 210
  3. ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 332.
  4. ↑ Internationales Rotes Kreuz Bad Arolsen, Archive: Excerpt from the block relocations of the Buchenwald concentration camp, relocations on September 29, 1944 from the tent camp, sheet 659
  5. ^ Harry Stein: Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1937-1945 , 1999, p. 168.
personal data
SURNAME Boy, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knab, Peter Alois (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH lime
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1963
Place of death Enkirch