Henry Hamilton Beamish

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Henry Hamilton Beamish (born June 2, 1873 in Great Britain , † March 27, 1948 Southern Rhodesia ) was a leading anti-Semite in Great Britain, who can be regarded as the main propagator of the Madagascar Plan and as the founder of the fascist movement The Britons .

Life

Henry Beamish was the son of a British admiral of Irish descent . His nephew was the future MP for the Conservative Party , Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood . At the age of 17, Henry Beamish traveled to Canada, undertook a North Pole expedition and in 1884 took a job on a tea plantation in Ceylon that his father had arranged for him. In the Second Boer War he came to South Africa as a soldier in 1901 , settled there and published an agricultural newspaper. In South Africa he dealt with Judaism for the first time and founded the British Citizen Movement . He returned to Europe to take part in the First World War.

Beamish was active in the Post World War I Silver Badge Party , which was a movement of wounded British soldiers who had been awarded a wounded medal , the Silver War Badge , which could also be worn on civilian lapels.

Beamish owned The Britons Publishing Company after World War II , which distributed anti-Semitic literature such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , The Jew's Who is Who (1920) and a journal Jewish Ueber Alles , which he later renamed Hidden Hands . Beamish was temporarily vice president of the Imperial Fascist League . Arnold Leese , the leader of the Imperial Fascists League , was deeply impressed and influenced by Beamish; His solution to the Jewish question under the Madagascar Plan, however, he did not take on until the 1930s.

On July 18, 1919, Henry Beamish founded The Britons with 13 other people . In this anti-Semitic movement he was president until his death. In 1918 he applied for two unsuccessful elections to the House of Commons in Great Britain. The following year, in 1919, he produced a poster denigrating Sir Alfred Mond as a traitor for allegedly selling shares to Germans during the war, and was sued by Mond. Beamish was fined £ 5,000 , which he never paid for leaving the UK before the trial.

In the following years, Beamish traveled abroad as an agitator for the Madagascar Plan and spread the idea that all Jews should be deported to Madagascar . On January 18, 1923, like Hitler, he spoke in front of 7,000 people at the Krone Circus in Munich , where he professed his support for National Socialism . Beamish not only knew Hitler personally, but also Theodor Fritsch and Alfred Rosenberg , the head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories , who on June 26, 1926 enabled him to publish an article in the Völkischer Beobachter , where he dealt with the Jewish question in three separate proposals , Assimilation or extermination discussed. He rejected the extermination because every people had a right to exist, against assimilation spoke for him that this people had successfully fought against it for centuries. For him the only option was isolation in an isolated area from which this people could not spread further.

Beamish was also a member of the International of Anti-Semitism . In 1940 he was in the British crown colony of Southern Rhodesia, where he had been elected as an independent member of parliament and was interned in 1940 for his stance on behalf of Nazi Germany.

literature

  • Mangus Brechtken: Madagascar for the Jews: Anti-Semitic Idea and Political Practice 1885-1945 . Studies in contemporary history. 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56384-X , Google Books
  • Robert Benewick: Political Violence and Public Order, Study of British Fascism . London 1969, ISBN 978-0-7139-0085-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brechtken: Madagascar, p. 35, see literature
  2. ^ A b Philip Hoare: Oscar Wilde's Last Stand . Arcade Publishing, 1998, ISBN 978-1-55970-423-6 , p. 212, Google Books
  3. ↑ Brechtken: Madagascar , p. 65, see literature
  4. ↑ Brechtken: Madagascar , p. 32, see literature
  5. ↑ Brechtken: Madagascar , p. 34 f., See literature
  6. ↑ Brechtken: Madagascar , p. 38, see literature
  7. ^ Herbert Arthur Strauss: Hostages of Modernization: Studies on Modern Antisemitism, 1870-1933 / 39 . Walter de Gruyter, 1993, ISBN 3-11-010776-7 , p. 303
personal data
SURNAME Beamish, Henry Hamilton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British fascist politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Britain
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1948
Place of death Rhodesia