Benjamin Marius Telders

Benjamin Marius Telders
Born	(1903-03-19)19 March 1903 The Hague, Netherlands
Died	6 April 1945(1945-04-06) (aged 42) Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Nazi Germany
Nationality (legal)	Dutch
Alma mater	Leiden University
Awards	Dutch Cross of Resistance
Scientific career
Fields	law

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

External links

• Lemma in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland (in Dutch)
• Erades, L. (1955). B. M. Telders (1903–1945). Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Internationaal Recht, 2(2), 123–126. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0165070X00034604