Hermann Richard Paul Czirniok (23 December 1903 – 3 January 1982) was a politician and a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party in Nazi Germany. From 1932 to 1933 he was a member of the Landtag of Prussia, and in 1934, a mayor of Szczecin (now located in Poland).
Biography Hermann Czirniok was born on 23 December 1903 in Hamburg, German Empire. After graduating from a primary school, he had completed an apprenticeship as a confectioner, attended a business school, and later worked as a confectioner's assistant.Erich Stockhorst: 5000 Köpfe. Wer war was im 3. Reich. Kiel: Arndt, 2000. ISBN 3-88741-116-1. (in German)Ernst Kienast (editor): Handbuch für den Preußischen Landtag, Ausgabe für die 5. Berlin: Wahlperiode, 1933, p. 316.Tadeusz Białecki: Encyklopedia Szczecina, vol. 1: A-O. Szczecin: University of Szczecin, 1999, p. 141. ISBN 9788387341459. (in Polish)
On 16 October 1925 Czirniok had joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and later become a chairperson of the local party division in Szczecin. In 1929 he became a member of the city council, and the chairperson of the party parliamentary group. In 1930 Czirniok became party district leader (Kreisleiter). In October 1932, he and other party members were arrested for inciting a riot during a party convention in Słupsk."Gut Harzburg allewege!". In: Der Funke, vol. 1, issue 248B. Berlin: Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund, 31 October 1932, p. 5. (in German) From 1932 to 1933 he was a member of the Landtag of Prussia. In 1934 Czirniok was a mayor of Szczecin, until the office was disestablished, and its functions merged with the role of the high mayor. During the 1936 elections, he unsuccessfully run for office of a member of the Reichstag (the national parliament).
Czirniok died on 3 January 1982 in Großhansdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany.
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