Kurt Benson

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Kurt Benson (born October 13, 1902 in Königsberg , † September 9, 1942 at Ilmensee ) was an SS-Oberführer .

Life

Benson did an apprenticeship as a businessman and was initially active in this profession. After the First World War he became a member of the Freikorps Oberland and was banished from the front . In 1925 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 19.227). From 1926 to 1929 he was a member of the SA until he switched to the SS in August 1929 (membership number 1.642). In the Königsberg SS Benson was promoted several times and was from December 16, 1933 the leader of the local 18th SS standard.

On June 20, 1935, Benson was appointed SS-Oberführer and on June 30, 1935, he took over SS Section IV in Hanover . After the Reichspogromnacht on November 9, 1938, Benson organized destruction campaigns by the SS against Jewish institutions in Hanover, which lasted into the night of November 11. Benson gave the leader of the Hildesheim SS-Sturmbann the instruction to destroy the synagogue there. On December 30, 1938, Benson was transferred to the headquarters of the SS Upper Section Northeast in Königsberg. In Königsberg he was co-owner of the companies "Steinmetz & Co" and "Friedrich Benson", the latter a company for medals and decorations.

Since 1939 lieutenant in the reserve in the 46th Infantry Regiment, Benson was deployed in the western campaign in 1940 and seriously wounded near Dunkirk . As a company commander and first lieutenant in the reserve, he took part in the German war against the Soviet Union and fell in the Battle of Ilmensee in 1942 .

literature

  • Bernd Diroll: Personal Lexicon of the NSDAP. Volume 1: SS-Führer AB. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 1998, ISBN 3-931533-38-7 . P. 188 f.

Remarks

  1. ^ History of the Hanoverian police 1918 to 1955 at the State Archives Lower Saxony
  2. ↑ Hildesheim under National Socialism at the History Workshop (Historical Seminar Hannover)
  3. ↑ companies in Koenigsberg at www.provinz-ostpreussen.de
personal data
SURNAME Benson, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Oberführer
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1942
Place of death Ilmensee