Theo Benesch

Theo Benesch (born January 21, 1899 in Holitz ; † December 2, 1954 at Wilsele ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and a member of the National Socialist Reichstag .

Life

Benesch took after attending the secondary school in Stuttgart-Cannstatt as a volunteer at the Württemberg mountain regiment at the First World War in part. After the end of the war he worked as a mechanical engineer and lived in Erlangen , Westliche Stadtmauerstraße 30 II. He became a member of the NSDAP in 1923, was a city councilor in Erlangen from 1927 to 1933, and from 1929 to November 1933 managing director and organizational head of the Middle Franconia district. Between October 1930 and October 1932 Benesch was editor of the magazine Der Stürmer .

Benesch represented the NSDAP as a fanatical speaker at rallies in Middle Franconia and since 1932 as an MdL in the state parliament of Bavaria . In November 1933 he became managing director of the NSDAP faction in the Bavarian state parliament . On November 12, 1933, he was elected to the National Socialist Reichstag, to which he only belonged until March 1936, as he was not re-elected.

After the Second World War, Benesch was a member of the supervisory board of Rhein-Main-Donau AG and of the Bavarian State Mines, Smelters and Salt Works.

Benesch died in a train accident.

literature

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 .
Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
Wolfgang Mück: Nazi stronghold in Middle Franconia: The völkisch awakening in Neustadt an der Aisch 1922–1933. Verlag Philipp Schmidt, 2016 (= Streiflichter from home history. Special volume 4); ISBN 978-3-87707-990-4 , pp. 69, 81, 84 and 252.

Web links

Theo Benesch in the database of members of the Reichstag
Theo Benesch in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

References and comments

^ Wolfgang Mück: Nazi stronghold in Middle Franconia. The Volkish Awakening in Neustadt ad Aisch 1922–1933. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2016 (= Streiflichter aus der Heimatgeschichte. Ed. By Geschichts- und Heimatverein Neustadt ad Aisch e.V., special volume 4), 3rd, extended edition ibid. 2016, pp. 69, 81 and 83 f.
↑ A train with around 650 battlers, who were driving home from London after an international football match, derailed at a repair station in Belgium; 19 Germans died ( Welt im Bild 128/1954 from December 10, 1954 , from 0:03:13)

personal data
SURNAME	Benesch, Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	January 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Holitz
DATE OF DEATH	2nd December 1954
Place of death	Wilsele

[1] Wolfgang Mück: Nazi stronghold in Middle Franconia. The Volkish Awakening in Neustadt ad Aisch 1922–1933. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2016 (= Streiflichter aus der Heimatgeschichte. Ed. By Geschichts- und Heimatverein Neustadt ad Aisch e.V., special volume 4), 3rd, extended edition ibid. 2016, pp. 69, 81 and 83 f.

[2] A train with around 650 battlers, who were driving home from London after an international football match, derailed at a repair station in Belgium; 19 Germans died ( Welt im Bild 128/1954 from December 10, 1954 , from 0:03:13)