| Benjamin Marius Telders | |
| Birth Date: | 19 March 1903 |
| Birth Place: | The Hague, Netherlands |
| Death Place: | Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Nazi Germany |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Fields: | law |
| Alma Mater: | Leiden University |
| Awards: | Dutch Cross of Resistance |
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]