Otto Telschow German

Nazi Germany

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 Nazi Party official, was born in Wittenberge

Wittenberge

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 and became a police

Hamburg Police

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 official in Hamburg

Hamburg

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. He joined the Nazi Party in 1925, and was the founder of the regional Nazi newspaper, the Niedersachsen-Stürmer. In October 1928 was appointed Gauleiter

Gauleiter

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 (regional party leader) of the Nazi party's regional subsection Gau Eastern Hanover

Gau Eastern Hanover

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, a post he retained until the end of World War II

World War II

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. Telschow gained more influence after 1935, when the Nazi-party Gaue usurped the functions of the streamlined German states

States of Germany

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. In 1930 he was elected to the Reichstag

Reichstag (Weimar Republic)

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 for the Ost-Hannover electoral district, and remained a member until 1945. He was taken prisoner by the British Army at Lüneburg

Lüneburg

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and committed suicide in prison by slashing his wrists.

Source

• Ernst Klee, Das Personen-lexikon zum Dritten Reich (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt-am-Main, 2005), 619