Georg Bennewitz

Georg Bennewitz (born January 14, 1877 in Zeithain ; † after 1942) was a German National Socialist functionary.

Life

Nickern Castle - Georg Bennewitz's residence

He came from a Saxon farming family, went to elementary school in Zeithain and then to the citizens' school in Riesa and then to 1893 the agricultural high school in Döbeln . He then gained practical experience in agriculture as an apprentice in Röhrsdorf and as an agricultural official in the Prussian province of Saxony . He later changed jobs twice before leasing the Oberwutzschwitz manor in 1903 . After the outbreak of World War I until 1919, Georg Bennewitz was responsible for grain and livestock farming in the Döbeln district administration. After the lease had expired and the manor Oberwutzschwitz was sold by the owner, Georg Bennewitz leased the manor Nickern near Dresden in 1929 .

On March 1, 1931, Georg Bennewitz joined the NSDAP (membership number 437 397) and in the same year became a member of the "Agricultural Policy Department" (APA) headed by Walter Darré at the NS-Reichsorganisationsleitung II in Munich . Two years later, he took over the role of Head of State Department II "The Court" in the State of Saxony . In addition, he was a district farmer's leader, from 1936 also for the Dresden district, and also a district consultant for agriculture. In 1934 Georg Bennewitz joined the SS and became a farmer's advisor for Dresden and the surrounding area. In 1938 he was promoted to Obersturmführer in the SS.

In 1942 Georg Bennewitz was relieved of his position as state head of department in Saxony. The manor Nickern was expropriated in 1945 through the land reform.

Awards

SS ring of honor

literature

Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? . Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 94.
Erich Stockhorst : Five thousand heads. Who was what in the Third Reich . blick + bild Verlag S. cap KG, Velbert / Kettwig 1967, p. 51.

Web links

Project on the organizational and social history of the SS in East Saxony (1925-1950)

Individual proof

^ Wolfram Pyta : Village community and party politics 1918-1933. The entanglement of milieu and parties in the Protestant rural areas of Germany in the Weimar Republic (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Ed. By the Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties, vol. 106). Düsseldorf 1996, p. 353.
↑ Numery członków SS od 261 000 do 261 999

personal data
SURNAME	Bennewitz, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German National Socialist functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	January 14, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zeithain
DATE OF DEATH	after 1942

[1] Wolfram Pyta : Village community and party politics 1918-1933. The entanglement of milieu and parties in the Protestant rural areas of Germany in the Weimar Republic (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Ed. By the Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties, vol. 106). Düsseldorf 1996, p. 353.

[2] Numery członków SS od 261 000 do 261 999