Richard Klein (politician, 1888)

Richard Klein (born October 30, 1888 in Zanow , † after 1932) was a German politician ( DNVP , NSDAP ).

Life

Klein was initially a seaman, did military service in the Imperial Navy and was finally taken prisoner by the English. After his dismissal he worked as a railway worker in Berlin-Halensee and as a works council at the management of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Berlin . He was a board member of the Union of German Railway Workers in the General German Trade Union Federation and, from 1928, a board member of the economically peaceful Reich Association of National Trade Unions (RNG).

During the time of the Weimar Republic , Klein joined the German National People's Party (DNVP), for which he was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament in May 1928 . He left the German Nationals and had been a non-attached MP since July 6, 1931. From November 23, 1931, he was a permanent guest of the German rural people and a member of the German parliamentary group . On April 12, 1932, he joined the National Socialist faction. At the end of the third electoral term, he left the state parliament in 1932. In parliament he represented constituency 3 (Potsdam II). Furthermore, Klein was a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten .

literature

• Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928. P. 546.
• Amrei Stupperich: Volksgemeinschaft or workers solidarity . Studies on employee policy in the German National People's Party (1918–1933). Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen / Zurich 1982. p. 262.