Wilhelm Knoll (politician)

Wilhelm Knoll

Wilhelm Knoll (born June 23, 1873 in Bachhaupten ; † August 31, 1947 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German politician ( center ).

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Wilhelm Knoll came from a Catholic, Württemberg - Hohenzollern family. He was born in Bachhaupten near Ostrach in 1873. His parents were the farmer Alois Knoll and his wife Genovefa, née Frank. After attending primary school, Knoll trained as a blacksmith . After working in this profession for a few years, he married Agathe Knoll, née Dörflinger, in Mainz in 1903. In the same year he became chairman of the Christian trade union cartel in Mainz, a position he would hold until 1917. From 1906 he also served as a workers secretary and head of the Catholic People's Office.

After the First World War , Knoll began to be more politically active. In 1919 he entered the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse for the Center Party , to which he belonged for three sessions until February 2, 1925. Then Karl Felder took over Knoll's mandate. In 1922 he became a councilor and later a senior councilor in the Ministry of Labor and Economics of the People's State of Hesse .

From 1924 to 1928 and from 1932 to 1933 Knoll was a member of his party in the Reichstag in Berlin.

One of his daughters was the sports editor, journalist and later press officer for the city of Frankfurt: Helli Knoll .

Wilhelm Knoll with family members on the farm of his nephew Adolf Knoll from left to
right: Wilhelm Knoll with the mourning ribbon of his recently deceased wife,
his sister-in-law Leopoldine Knoll, née. Lehleiter,
his niece Luise Knoll,
his great-niece Marialuise Knoll,
and the wife of his nephew Kreszentia "Gretel" Knoll

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• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 218.
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , p. 514.
• Hans Georg Ruppel / Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820-1930 , Darmstadt 1980, p. 155.

Web links

• Wilhelm Knoll in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Knoll, Wilhelm. Hessian biography. (As of November 6, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).