Vojtěch Beneš

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Vojtěch Beneš ( August 4, 1892 in Letovice - November 11, 1943 in Asperg ) was the director of the Brno waterworks . He was arrested on September 1, 1939 as part of the Albrecht I campaign and died in a prison in Asperg in 1943.

Life

Vojtěch Beneš studied at the Institute of Cultural Engineering at the Technical University of Brno . He passed his second state examination in 1920, the entrance examination for cultural technology followed in 1926. He was posthumously appointed doctor of technical sciences.

In 1920 and 1921 he worked for an agricultural company, from June 1921 to July 1922 he worked for the Brno City Building Authority. In 1923 he became head of the Brno waterworks and remained so until the National Socialists established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1939. In 1926 he became chairman of the Prague Gas and Water Association . On September 1, 1939, he was arrested as part of the Albrecht I campaign . He was posthumously awarded the Czechoslovak War Cross 1939 in 1946 .

Beneš was first imprisoned in the Špilberk fortress , then he was deported to Dachau concentration camp and then to Buchenwald concentration camp . On November 4, 1942, he was sentenced to five years in prison by the People's Court in Breslau, which he served at least partially in the Hohenasperg civil fortress branch of the Ludwigsburg prison. His wife Božena Benešová received notification that her husband had died of TB and cardiac insufficiency on November 11, 1943 in the department for tuberculosis in Hohenasperg . He was buried in the fortress cemetery.

Memorials

The following memorials commemorate Vojtěch Beneš:

Memorial stone for Vojtěch Beneš
  • On November 2, 1945, a memorial plaque for the victims of the Second World War was unveiled among the employees of the water works on the premises of the water works.
  • On May 8, 1946, a memorial plaque for the victims of the Second World War was unveiled among the employees of the city administration and members of the diplomatic corps in Brno in the 1st courtyard of the New Town Hall.
  • On November 23, 1947, a memorial plaque was unveiled in Sokol Brno I for the victims of the Second World War.
  • On September 10, 2015, a memorial stone was laid in Brno at Pisárecká 10/272 with the following inscription (the translation on the right):

ZDE ŽIL
Ing. VOJTĚCH BENEŠ
NAR.4.8.1892
ZATČEN 1.9.1939
VĚZNĚN
DACHAU A
BEECH FOREST ZAVRAŽDĚN 14.11.1943
V HOHENASPERGU

Here lived
Ing. VOJTĚCH BENEŠ
GEB. 4.8.1892
ARRESTED 1.9.1939
IMPRISED
DACHAU AND BUCHENWALD
MURDERED November 14th, 1943
IN HOHENASPERG

swell

  • Vojtěch Beneš , Biography, In: Encyclopedia of the History of the City of Brno , (Czech)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Empire and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia September 1939 - September 1941 , edited by Andrea Löw . Volume 3, of the series “The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945”. Munich: Oldenbourg 2012, p. 638
  2. ^ Structure of the local prisons in Ludwigsburg
personal data
SURNAME Beneš, Vojtěch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Director of the Brno waterworks, resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Letovice
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1943
Place of death Asperg