Franz Stöhr

Who was Franz Stöhr?

Franz Stöhr was a German politician with the Nazi Party.

Stöhr was a member of the Reichstag, first being elected in May 1924 and retaining his seat until his death. Stöhr began as a member of the German Völkisch Freedom Party and was elected as part of the National Socialist Freedom Movement, an electoral pact between this group and the Nazis. However in May 1927 Ernst Graf zu Reventlow split from the DVFP after becoming a strong admirer of Adolf Hitler and Stöhr joined the likes of Christian Mergenthaler and Wilhelm Kube in following Reventlow into the Nazi Party.

He was also a leading figure in the Deutschnationaler Handlungsgehilfen-Verband, a völkisch and anti-Semitic trade union for white-collar workers, close links with which had been cultivated by Gregor Strasser in the early 1930s. He was a shop-assistant by profession and thus of the petit-bourgeois stock that made up the bulk of Nazi Party support in the 1920s.