Peter Bell (15 July 1889 in
Metz
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; † 22 September 1939 in
Neuburg an der Donau
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* Altmannstetten
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) was a German teacher and
Nazi Party
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politician. He was a deputy in the Reichstag of the German Reich and in the Prussian Landtag.
Life
Bell attended the Volksschule in
Cologne
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, followed by the
Realprogymnasium in
Cologne-Nippes and the
Realgymnasien in
Düsseldorf
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and
Munich
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. From 19911 to 1914, he studied German, History and French at the
Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, and became a volunteer at the 1st Bavarian Infantry Regiment in 1914. In 1920, after the
First World War he received his PhD at the
Technical University of Munich
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Establis ...
. From April 1923 to April 1937 he was a student council at the Realschule in
Cham
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, in the Upper Palatinate. On 1 March 1931 he joined the NSDAP.
Bell represented Constituency 25 of the
Nazi Reichstag in November 1933, and in 1933 he became a member of the city council in Cham. From 1933 to 1936, he was the
district leader of the NSDAP in
Viechtach
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, where he also served as chairman of the
Regentalbahn AG supervisory board. Since 1933, he has also been a member of the Kreistag of Niederbayern-Oberpfalz. In addition, he later became head of the Gaussian Border Office of the Gaussian Bavarian Ostmark of the NSDAP. From April 1937 he directed a real school in
Neuburg on the Danube. Concurrently, he was still the regional leader of the
Bavarian State Parliament of the
Federal Republic of Germany
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. He died in September 1939 in Neuburg on the Danube.
See also
*
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References
*Joachim Lilla (Editor): extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. Droste Verlag, Dusseldorf 2004, .
*Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads. Who was what in the Third Reich? Arndt, Kiel, 2000, .
External links
''Peter Bell''nbsp;in the database of the Reichstagsabgegeordneten
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Politicians from Metz
Kreisleiter
Nazi Party politicians
1939 deaths
1889 births
Members of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
German Army personnel of World War I