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Communist Party Of The Memel Territory
Memel Workers Party (german: Memelländische Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated MAP; lt, Klaipėdos krašto darbininkų partija) 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 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 ... 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 ... [...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 Klaipėda, Lithuania **Memelburg, (Klaipėda Castle), the ''Ordensburg'' in Memel, a castle built in 1252 by Teutonic Knights which was the nucleus for the city **Memel Territory (Klaipėda Region), (''Memelland''), the area separated from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, later called Klaipėda Region **Battle of Memel (other) *Neman (German ''Memel''), part of a river in East Prussia, Germany, mentioned in the ''Deutschlandlied'' (1841) as the eastern border of Germany *Nemunėlis River (German ''Memele'', Latvian ''Mēmele'') in northern Lithuania and southern Latvia *Memel, Free State Memel is a town in the Free State province of South Africa, located close to the provincial boundaries of both kwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga, and is situated some 1,730 metres above sea level. Etymology The town is perhaps named after the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |