Otto Telschow
Otto Telschow (27 February 1876, Wittenberge, Brandenburg – 31 May 1945), a German Nazi Party official, was born in Wittenberge and became a police official in Hamburg. Telschow joined the German Social Party in 1905. In 1925 he joined the Nazi Party, and was the founder of the regional Nazi newspaper, the Niedersachsen-Stürmer. In February 1925 Telschow was named Gauleiter (regional party leader) of the Gau Lüneburg-Stade. On 1 October 1928, the Gau was renamed Gau Eastern Hanover and Telschow was retained as Gauleiter until the end of World War II.[1] Telschow gained more influence after 1935, when the Nazi-party Gaue usurped the functions of the German states. In 1930 he was elected to the Reichstag for the Ost-Hannover electoral district, and remained a member until 1945. He was taken prisoner by the British Army at Lüneburg and committed suicide in prison by slashing his wrists.
References
- Hitlers politische Generale. Die Gauleiter des 3. Reiches. Ein biographisches Nachschlagewerk. (Veröffentlichungen des Institutes für Deutsche Nachkriegsgeschichte, Bd. 13) Grabert-Verlag, Tübingen 1986, ISBN 3-87847-163-7, pp.342-343.
Sources
- Ernst Klee, Das Personen-Lexikon zum Dritten Reich. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt-am-Main, 2005, p. 619
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