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Communist Party Of The Memel Territory
Memel Workers Party (, abbreviated MAP; ) was a communist organisation in the Memel Territory in 1925-1935. The party was founded in 1925 as a legal organization of the Communist Party of Lithuania. Hermann Suhrau and Adolf Monien served as chairmen of the party. The party was primarily supported by agricultural workers. Elections MAP contested the 1925, 1927, 1930 and 1932 elections to the Memel Territory Assembly (''Landtag''). In the first election held in 1925, the party got 1,564 votes (2.5% of the vote) but no seat in the Assembly. In the 1927 election, the party got 3,844 votes (7.0% of the vote) and won two seats in the Assembly (Hermann Suhrau and Adolf Monien). MAP formed a separate fraction in the Assembly.Unser Kampf ums Recht', in ''Memeler Dampfboot'', March 5, 1968 In the 1930 election the party got 2,062 votes (4.2% of the vote) and retained its two seats. The elected members were Hermann Suhrau and Hans Szardenings. In the 1932 election MAP got 5,401 votes (8.2% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memel Territory
Memel, a name derived from the Couronian-Latvian ''memelis, mimelis, mēms'' for "mute, silent", may refer to: *Memel, East Prussia, Germany, now , Lithuania **, (Klaipėda Castle Klaipėda Castle (), also known as Memelburg or Memel Castle, is an archaeology, archeological site and museum housed in a Ordensburg, castle built by the Teutonic Knights in Klaipėda, Lithuania, near the Baltic Sea. The Teutons called the castl ...), the in Memel, a castle built in 1252 by Teutonic Knights which was the nucleus for the city **Memel Territory ( Klaipėda Region), (), the area separated from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, later called Klaipėda Region ** Battle of Memel (other) * Neman (), part of a river in East Prussia, Germany, mentioned in the (1841) as the eastern border of Germany * Nemunėlis River (, ) in northern Lithuania and southern Latvia * Memel, Free State, a village in the Free State Province of South Africa *, a German cargo ship in service 1934–1945 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Suhrau
Hermann Suhrau (1898–1947) was a German politician. Suhrau was born on 25 April 1898 in Memel, East Prussia (present-day Klaipėda, Lithuania). He was a wood- and construction worker. He was a workers' leader in inter-war Memel. Suhrau joined the communist Memel Workers Party (MAP) when it was founded in 1925. He stood as a candidate in the 1925 '' Memel Territory Landtag'' election, occupying the sixth place on the MAP list. He became the leader of MAP in 1927. He was elected to the ''Landtag'' in the 1927, 1930 and 1932 elections, heading the MAP lists. Although he was a known communist, he maintained links with the German Labour Front in Königsberg in Prussia. Ahead of the 1935 ''Landtag'' election, MAP had joined the Memel Unity List (MEL). Suhrau stood as a MEL candidate, and was elected as the second alternate member of the chamber. On 26 April 1936 he again became a ''Landtag'' deputy following the death of the deputy Bernhard Mielke (who had died five days earlier). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Monien
Adolf Monien was a German politician from the Memel Territory. He was born in 1894. He was one of the two co-chairmen of the pro-communist Memel Workers Party. He was elected to the parliament of the Memel Territory in 1927. In 1935 he was again elected to the Memel Territory parliament, as a candidate of the Memel Unity List. He succeeded Arthur Papendick, who had died March 24, 1936, as the Memel Unity List parliamentary group chair. Monien became a member of the Directorate (the executive branch of government of the Memel Territory) in 1939, as a workers' representative. He joined the NSDAP The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor, the German Workers ... around March-April 1939. Per Balling (1991), Monien might have died around 1945. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Monien, Adolf 1894 births P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Socialist
Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During Hitler's rise to power, it was frequently referred to as Hitler Fascism () and Hitlerism (). The term "neo-Nazism" is applied to other far-right groups with similar ideology, which formed after World War II, and after Nazi Germany collapsed. Nazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. Its beliefs include support for dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, anti-Slavism, anti-Romani sentiment, scientific racism, white supremacy, Nordicism, social Darwinism, homophobia, ableism, and the use of eugenics. The ultranationalism of the Nazis originated in pan-Germanism and the ethno-nationalist '' Völkisch'' movement which had been a prominent aspect of German ultranationalism since the late 19th century. Nazism was infl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of Lithuania
The Communist Party of Lithuania (; ) is a banned communist party in Lithuania. The party was established in early October 1918 and operated clandestinely until it was legalized in 1940 after the Soviet invasion and occupation. The party was banned in August 1991, following the coup attempt in Moscow, Soviet Union which later led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Lithuanian SSR. History The party was working illegally from 1920 until 1940. Although the party was illegal, some of its members took part in the 1922 Lithuanian parliamentary election under title "Workers Groups". It managed to gather 5.0 per cent of vote (or around 40,000 votes) and elect five members. Due to political instability, Seimas was dissolved and new elections took place in 1923. In these elections, the party lost half of its support. In 1940 the party amalgamated with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) (CPSU). By the time of the formation of the Lithua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Parties In Lithuania
Communism () is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need.: "One widespread distinction was that socialism socialised production only while communism socialised production and consumption." A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state. Communists often seek a voluntary state of self-governance but disagree on the means to this end. This reflects a distinction between a libertarian socialist approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers' self-management, and an authoritarian socialist, vanguardist, or party-driven approach to establish a socialist state, which is expected to wither away. Communist parties have been described as radical lef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
