Benjamin Marius Telders

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Benjamin Marius Telders
Born(1903-03-19)19 March 1903
The Hague, Netherlands
Died6 April 1945(1945-04-06) (aged 42)
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Nazi Germany
NationalityDutch
Alma materLeiden University
AwardsDutch Cross of Resistance
Scientific career
Fieldslaw

Benjamin Marius Telders (19 March 1903 – 6 April 1945) was a professor of law at Leiden University. He is known for standing up for his belief in the rule of law and civil society during the German Occupation.[1]

From 1938 he became involved in Dutch politics; he was party chairman of the Liberal State Party from 1938–1945.

Rudolph Cleveringa and Telders led the resistance to a declaration requiring the dismissal of 'non-Aryan' staff that all professors were told to sign in October 1940. He was arrested that December and imprisoned in Scheveningen. He died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly before the end of the war.[2] He was awarded the Dutch Cross of Resistance on 9 May 1946 (posthumously).[3]

Telders Students Society of International Law, the Telders Foundation, and the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition are named after him.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ "Ben Telders". Leiden University.
  2. ^ "Ben Telders". Leiden University.
  3. ^ "Telders, Benjamin Marius". TracesOfWar.com.
  4. ^ "Prof. B.M. Telders". Leiden University.
  5. ^ "Ben Telders". Leiden University.

External links

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