Franz Stöhr (born 19 November 1879 in Veliká Ves (Chomutov District) – died 13 November 1938 in Schneidemühl) was a German politician with the National Socialist German Workers' Party Party.

Stöhr was a Sudeten German who had been active in anti-semitic politics before the First World War.

Stöhr was elected member of the Reichstag for Thuringia in May 1924 and retaining his seat until his death. Stöhr began as a member of the German Völkisch Freedom Party (DVFP) and was elected as part of the National Socialist Freedom Movement, an electoral pact between this group and the National Socialist German Workers' Partys. 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 National Socialist German Workers' Party 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 Str*er in the early 1930s. He was a shop-*istant by profession and thus of the pe*-bourgeois stock that made up the bulk of National Socialist German Workers' Party Party support in the 1920s.

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