Otto Telschow was a German Nazi Party official who served as Gauleiter in Eastern Hanover from 1925 to 1945.
15 Facts About Otto Telschow
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Otto Telschow served with the police until the beginning of the First World War.
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Otto Telschow was drafted as a field hospital inspector and served from 1914 to 1917 on the front lines in Flanders, Romania and the Baltic States, earning the Iron Cross, 2nd class.
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Otto Telschow was dismissed from the police in March 1924 because of his activities as district leader of the radically volkisch and anti-Semitic German Volkisch Freedom Party in the Harburg district.
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Otto Telschow was a member of the German Deutschvolkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund, the largest and most active anti-Semitic federation in Germany.
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On 10 September 1925, Otto Telschow joined the National Socialist Working Association, headed by Gregor Strasser.
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On 20 May 1928, Otto Telschow was defeated in his first bid to be elected to the Reichstag and to the Prussian Landtag.
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On 1 October 1928, Otto Telschow's Gau was renamed Gau Eastern Hanover and he was retained as Gauleiter, serving until the end of the Nazi regime in May 1945.
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Also in October 1928, Otto Telschow founded the weekly Nazi newspaper Niedersachsen-Sturmer which he published until May 1945.
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Otto Telschow often gave speeches against Jews, Freemasons and Communists.
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Otto Telschow was retained as a member when it was reconstituted by Prussian Ministerprasident Hermann Goring as an advisory body and convened on 15 September 1933.
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Unlike most other Gauleiters, Otto Telschow was not a member of either the SA or the SS.
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One of the older Gauleiters, and not particularly ambitious or capable, Otto Telschow often turned over the day-to-day running of his Gau to his Deputy, Heinrich Peper.
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When on 16 November 1942 the jurisdiction of the Reich Defense Commissioners was changed from the Wehrkreis to the Gau level, Otto Telschow was appointed to this position for his Gau.
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Toward the close of the war, when British troops entered Luneburg on 18 April 1945, Otto Telschow fled from his villa to a hunting lodge near Dahlenburg.