Berengar Elsner von Gronow (politician, 1903)

Berengar Elsner von Gronow (born November 17, 1903 , † January 31, 1981 ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and genealogist . From 1933 to 1936 he was mayor of Swinoujscie .

Life

Elsner von Gronow studied agricultural science and graduated as a qualified farmer. Then he became managing director of the bookshop of the NSDAP in Göttingen. After he exhibited notices by the Illustrierte Beobachter there, which propagated the anti-Semitic ritual murder legend , he was fined 300 Reichsmarks in 1928 for sedition and insulting denominations, religious societies and ideological associations . During the National Socialist era , he was mayor of Swinoujscie from 1933 to 1936 . At the same time he was a consultant in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda . In 1964 he was a co-founder of the genealogical-heraldic working group Roland zu Dortmund.

^ Roland: Journal of the genealogical-heraldic working group Roland zu Dortmund eV, year 2011, page 156
↑ Christoph Jahr: Antisemitism in front of the court: Debates on the legal punishment of anti-Jewish agitation in Germany (1879-1960) , Scientific series of the Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt am Main and New York 2011, p. 278.
^ Website of Swinoujscie .
^ Institute for German Nobility Research .
^ Roland: Journal of the genealogical-heraldic working group Roland zu Dortmund eV , year 2011, p. 156.

personal data
SURNAME	Elsner von Gronow, Berengar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NSDAP), Mayor of Swinoujscie
DATE OF BIRTH	17th November 1903
DATE OF DEATH	January 31, 1981