Albert Benary

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Albert Benary (born June 3, 1881 in Lehsten , † September 22, 1963 in Berlin ) was a German officer , poet and military writer.

Life

Albert Agathon Benary, grandson of the classical philologist Albrecht Agathon Benary of the same name , was the eldest son of Franz Wilhelm Gustav Martin Eduard Benary (* July 16, 1853 - February 1, 1924) and his wife Susanne, née Meinhold (* October 12, 1853 ; † March 29, 1921). He spent a very happy childhood in the country in his parents' house, first on the Lehsten estate in Mecklenburg, then in Neu-Cölln near Freyenstein in the Priegnitz.

In 1900 Benary joined the field artillery regiment No. 39 of the Prussian Army in Perleberg as a flag junior . After passing his officer's examination with the “highest commendation” he was promoted to lieutenant and then attended the war academy in Berlin. In the First World War he rose to lieutenant colonel .

He married Clara Hoepke in 1911 (born February 17, 1893, † September 18, 1969); the couple had three children, Eleonore Dörner (1912-1997), Irmgard Petersen (born June 3, 1914, † April 7, 1983) and Friedrich Franz Benary (born 1917). Benary cared for his wife, who had multiple sclerosis, for the last twenty years of his life. He wrote articles, essays and books on the army, the history of Prussia and both world wars.

After 1933, Benary was ousted from the national conservative veterans' association Kyffhäuserbund because of his origins from the originally Jewish Benary family . As a so-called German-Jewish mongrel , he was threatened with exclusion from the Reichsschrifttumskammer and thus a publication ban after the Nuremberg Laws were passed . However, since Benary was friends with the highest "party judge" of the NSDAP and Bormann's father-in-law Walter Buch from wartime , he was allowed to continue working as a writer "after consultation with the minister".

After the end of the war, the occupation authorities indexed a large part of his work. In view of the fact that a specifically Nazi-influenced content cannot be identified, especially in the writings published up to 1933, Benary's explicit rejection of the political dogmas of the Versailles Treaty may have contributed to the prohibition of books published before the outbreak of war.

Benary's estate is stored undeveloped in the Federal Archives-Military Archives in Freiburg. He saw himself stronger as a poet. He self- published his poems under the pseudonym Lehsten .

Works

  • The Book of Honor of the German Field Artillery. Gun ring of the former German field artillery, Kolk, Berlin 1930 (indexed)
  • Contribution in: Flammende Fronten. Impressions and experiences from the world war. JE v. Seidel, Sulzbach in the Obpf. 1930.
  • The book of honor of the German field artillery. Traditions-Verlag, Berlin 1930 (indexed).
  • History of the Dragoon Regiment Field Marshal General Prince Leopold of Bavaria (Westphalian) No. 7. From 1860–1919. Kolk, Berlin 1931.
  • The struggle for disarmament. in four languages. Ed .: Working Committee of German Associations, W. Kolk, Berlin 1932.
  • The German Army. A Book of Pride - A Book of Hope. Etthofen Verlag, Berlin 1932 (indexed).
  • Our Reichswehr. The book of the army and the navy. Neufeld & Henius, Berlin 1932 (indexed).
  • Royal Prussian 1st Posensches Field Artillery Regiment No. 20. Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1932.
  • The battle at Tannenberg . F. Schneider, Berlin 1933 (indexed).
  • Air protection: the dangers from d. Air and their defense. Reclam, Leipzig 1933 (indexed).
  • Armor primer. Verlag Offene Zeiten, Leipzig 1933 (indexed).
  • Horst wants to join the Reichswehr. Franz Schneider Verlag, Leipzig 1933 (indexed).
  • Royal Prussian Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 48 in World War 1914-1918. Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1934.
  • Royal Prussia. Magdeburg Hussar Regiment No. 10 in the World War 1914/1918. Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1934.
  • Grabow Company. On the Western Front 1917/18. Schneider, Leipzig 1934 (indexed).
  • with von Blücher: The cavalryman. Verlag Offene Zeiten, Berlin 1934 (indexed).
  • Liege. Schneider, Leipzig / Vienna 1935 (indexed).
  • Picture book from the German army. F. Schneider, Leipzig 1935 (indexed).
  • From horse to engine. Amend, Würzburg 1935 (indexed).
  • The Cossacks are coming! Schneider, Berlin / Leipzig 1935 (indexed).
  • Perkunos , the winner. Schneider, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1936.
  • From marathon runners to radio stations. Amend, Würzburg 1936 (indexed).
  • On a tank hunt. Open words, Berlin 1936 (indexed).
  • Horst, the tank gunner. Franz Schneider, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1936 (indexed).
  • History of the foot artillery regiment General-Feldzeugmeister (Brandenburgisches) No. 3 and its war formations. Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1937.
  • The Royal Prussian Jäger Regiment on Horseback No. 2 and its war formations. Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1937.
  • Service in the motor vehicle combat force. Detke, Leipzig 1937 (indexed).
  • Horst wants to be among the soldiers. Franz Schneider Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1938 (indexed).
  • Rittmeister v. Borcke. Franz Schneider Verlag, Berlin 1938 (indexed).
  • Tanks ahead! Schneider Verlag, Berlin 1939 (indexed).
  • Tank riflemen in Poland. Franz Schneider, Berlin 1940 (indexed).
  • Infantry storm through Poland. Franz Schneider, Berlin / Leipzig without year (indexed).
  • Fast troops. Schneider Verlag, Berlin without year (indexed).
  • Detectors, radio operators, linemen. A book from the news man. Schneider, Berlin 1940 (indexed).
  • Men fight battles. Schneider Verlag, Berlin 1941 (indexed).
  • The Berlin Bear Division. History of the 257th Infantry Division. 1939-1945. Podzun-Pallas Verlag, Bad Nauheim 1955.

under the pseudonym "Albert Lehsten":

  • The last. Franz Schneider, Leipzig 1937 (indexed).
  • Poems. Self-published, approx. 1960.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Damerau (Ed.): German Soldier Yearbook 1988: Thirty-sixth German Soldier Calendar . Schild Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 9783880140905 , p. 22.
  2. ↑ Eleonore Dörner: An engagement in 1911. Letters from my great-grandmother to her daughter from the family box for my granddaughters. Nuremberg, Christmas 1986 (private print), p. 6. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~fmml2152/abla/Doerner1986-Verlobung1911.pdf
  3. ^ Manfred Messerschmidt : Jews in the Prussian-German army. in: Military History Research Office (ed.): German Jewish soldiers 1914-1945. 1983, pp. 109-140, 126 f.
  4. ↑ Volker Dahm: The Jewish Book in the Third Reich. Munich 1993, 2nd edition, p. 508 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Benary, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehsten, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Lehsten
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1963
Place of death Berlin