Georg Behnes

Georg Behnes (born January 31, 1870 in Meppen , † February 10, 1951 in Aschendorf ) was a German district administrator and politician ( center ).

Behnes was the son of Clemens August Behnes , who was the bailiff of the Sögel office and was to become district administrator in the district of Meppen from 1885 to 1900 . He attended the Latin school in Clemenswerth and the grammar school in Meppen and then studied law in Heidelberg, Munich, Berlin and Göttingen. In 1893 he was a trainee lawyer at the district court of Meppen . He did military service as a one-year volunteer in 1898/99 and retired from active service as a lieutenant. After his father's death in June 1900, he was appointed provisionally as his successor as district administrator in Meppen. On April 1, 1901, he was definitively confirmed in office. In the same year he married a banker's daughter. The marriage had four children. Politically, he represented conservative positions and was critical of the changes in the Weimar Republic. The SPD accused him of sympathy for the Kapp Putsch and demanded his replacement. In October 1922, Behnes applied for a transfer as district administrator to the Aschendorf district , where the family-owned Altenkamp estate was located. The previous district administrator, his cousin Hermann Hassenkamp , retired. Despite a certain resistance, he was appointed provisional and then definitely district administrator in the Aschendorf district in April 1923. There he was one of the initiators of the Kreissparkasse Aschendorf in 1924 . In the fall of 1932, the circle of ash village and were Hümmling the district Aschendorf-Hümmling combined. Behnes became the first district administrator of the newly created district. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he remained in office, but declined to NSDAP membership. He retired in 1935.

From 1910 to 1928 for the constituency of Meppen and again from 1929 to 1932 for the constituency of Aschendorf-Hümmling, he was a member of the provincial parliament of the province of Hanover .

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 37.