Karl Weinrich

Karl Weinrich (2 December 1887, in Molmeck – 22 July 1973, in Hausen) was NSDAP Gauleiter of Kurhessen.

Karl Weinrich (in middle), photographed touring a German fortification along the Rhine River

Karl Weinrich was a member of the Nazi Party from August 1922. From 1925 to 1927 he was the NSDAP's Gau Treasurer. From 1930 to 1933 he was a member of the Prussian Landtag, and as of 12 November 1933 a member of the Reichstag for the electoral district of Hesse-Nassau. He was from 1928 to 1943 Gauleiter of Kurhessen. Shortly after the bomb attack of 22 October 1943 on Kassel, which destroyed the whole inner city, he was stripped of his office and succeeded by Karl Gerland.[1] Weinrich survived the war, was sentenced to a ten-year prison term in 1949, and died in 1973.[2]

References
  1. Popa, Opritsa D. (2008). Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves: The Search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex. Schriften zum Kulturgüterschutz. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110201901.
  2. "Ex-Gauleiter Weinrich zu zehn Jahren Haft verurteilt" [Former Gauleiter Weinrich sentenced to 10 years in jail]. nordhessen-online.com (in German). Retrieved 26 March 2016.


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