Otto Telschow

Otto Telschow

Otto Telschow (born February 27, 1876 in Wittenberge ; † May 31, 1945 in Lüneburg ) was a Gauleiter of the NSDAP , from 1925 to 1928 in the Gau Lüneburg-Stade and from 1928 in the Gau Ost-Hannover and from 1930 to 1945 a member of the Reichstag . He was also a police officer, state councilor and Reich Defense Commissioner .

biography

Telschow was the son of a judicial officer. Until 1893 he was a student at the Kgl. Prussian military boy education institute Schloss Annaburg near Wittenberg , then he served until 1897 in the Ulanen Regiment 2 ( Saarburg ) and from 1898 to 1902 in the Hussar Regiment "Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands" ("Wandsbeker Hussars") in Wandsbek , in the he made it to the sergeant. He was a police officer until the beginning of the First World War . He was drafted as a field hospital inspector and served from 1914 to 1917 at the front in Flanders , Romania and the Baltic States . From the end of 1917 to the end of 1918, he served as a hospital chief inspector in Reserve Hospital III in Bremen .

He was married to Clara Jenny Philippine Gevert.

After the end of the First World War, he worked from 1919 to 1924 as an administrative officer in the Hamburg police authority, most recently as a police chief secretary.

In 1942, as Gauleiter of East Hanover, he received the former estate of the industrialist Richard Toepffer and 40 hectares of land from the state as a gift in Lopau . He built a bunker on the site, parts of which are still preserved today.

politics

He was dismissed as a police officer because from 1922 to 1924 he was district leader of the radically völkisch and anti-Semitic Deutschvölkische Freedom Party (DVFP) in the Harburg district . From 1924 to July 1925 he was the leader of the DVFP in Lüneburg and Stade. In 1905 he had already joined the anti - Semitic German Social Party ; He was also a member of the German National Guard and Trutzbund and an employee of the magazine Deutsche Soziale Blätter .

After the re-admission of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in 1925, he joined the party and received the low membership number 7057. From 1925 to 1928 he was NSDAP Gauleiter of Lüneburg-Stade. From 1928 to 1945 he was Gauleiter of East Hanover and thus also responsible for the Geestemünde area and later Bremerhaven for the party. In May 1928 he ran unsuccessfully for the Prussian state parliament . Telschow founded the National Socialist weekly newspaper Niedersachsen-Stürmer . During this time he gave speeches against the Jews, Freemasons and Communists. From November 1929 he was elected to the provincial parliament of the Prussian province of Hanover , whose president he became in April 1933. From 1930 to 1945 he was a member of the Reichstag . On July 11, 1933, he was appointed to the Prussian State Council and in 1934 to the Prussian Provincial Council of the Province of Hanover. From 1939 he was a member of the Defense Committee of Military District XI. From 1940 he was district housing commissioner for East Hanover, and in 1941 he was commissioned with urban planning measures for the city of Lüneburg. In 1942 he was commissioned by Fritz Sauckel to work for the Gau Ost-Hannover. From 1942 to 1944 he held the office of Reich Defense Commissioner for the Gau Ost-Hannover; but he was not up to the task.

Telschow fled from his villa in Lüneburg Schießgrabenstrasse 8/9 (Telschow Villa) to a hunting lodge near Dahlenburg (Sommerbeck) before the British invaded. There he was arrested by British soldiers and attempted suicide . He was brought back to Lüneburg, where he died on May 31, 1945 as a result of his attempted suicide.

"Otto Telschow City"

In Bremerhaven on December 19, 1937 the foundation stone was laid for 175 houses in Otto-Telschow-Stadt , which were completed by the topping-out ceremony on June 18, 1938. The Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung wrote about it: "In the area on the connecting road Reichsbahnhof Wulsdorf-Schiffdorf, east of the Kraft & Röver fishmeal factory ... the formations of the movement gather for the ceremonial act [laying the foundation stone for Otto Telschow town] with invited guests." Large families were the first to have a house who lived “on the Bult”. After the war, the settlement was named Surheide .

Honorary citizenships

Almost all honorary citizenships that were acquired were revoked at the beginning of the 21st century.

• Bleckede , 1933, withdrawn in 2008
• Blumenthal , 1933. The honorary citizenship of the then independent community of Blumenthal expired on November 1, 1939 when Blumenthal was incorporated into Bremen.
• Buchholz in der Nordheide , 1941, revoked in 2008
• Celle , 1936, revoked 2007
• Gartow , 1933, revoked in 2008
• Lüneburg , 1937, revoked in 2007
• Neuhaus / Elbe , 1933, revoked in 2008
• Soltau , August 29, 1937, revoked in 2014
• Wesermünde / Bremerhaven , 1934, revocation in 1949
• Wustrow , 1933, revoked 2008

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians, 1919–1945 , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 2004, p. 359
• Nils Köhler: Telschow - Hitler's Gauleiter in East Hanover. In: Michael Ruck , Heinrich Pohl (Hrsg.): Regions in National Socialism. Bielefeld 2003, pp. 121–146.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Telschow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Otto Telschow in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
• Otto Telschow in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Nils Köhler: Otto Telschow - Hitler's Gauleiter in East Hanover (PDF; 245 kB). In: Website of the Bunter Fraktion Wustrow (details from the life of Telschow)
• Celle under National Socialism / Otto Telschow House
• urban context - project. Bunker Lüneburg, Lüneburg: Kunstinitiative eV, 2000 (German / English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus: The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund. 1919-1923. Leibniz-Verlag, Hamburg 1970, ISBN 3-87473-000-X , p. 325.
2. ↑ In 1928 the Gau Lüneburg-Stade was restructured as Gau Ost-Hannover , and Telschow became Gauleiter of East Hanover. In: Nils Köhler: Otto Telschow - Hitler's Gauleiter in East Hanover (PDF; 245 kB). In: Website of the Bunter Fraktion Wustrow.
3. ↑ Mischa Kuball: urban context Editors: Hartmut Dähnhardt and Ruth Schulenburg, Lüneburg: Kunstinitiative eV, 2000, ISBN 3-00-005642-4 , p. 125.
4. ↑ Rosemarie Blum: 75 years of Surheide - From the settlement to the district. Bremerhaven 2012, pp. 1, 8.
5. ^ Biography in the Prignitzlexikon ( memento from June 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Information from the State Archives Bremen
7. ^ Local weekly newspaper Das FSVO of February 26, 2014.
8. ↑ original DS 06-11 / 0325 City Council Buchholz i. d. N.
9. ^ Request of the SPD parliamentary group [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and the council resolution declaration of the council of the city of Lüneburg on the honorary citizenship of the former Gauleiter Otto Telschow from April 19, 2007. In: Website of the city of Lüneburg.