Carsten Volquardsen

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Carsten Volquardsen (born April 27, 1902 in Flensburg ; † May 23, 1941 in Kania , Crete ) was a German political functionary and SA leader, most recently with the rank of brigade leader .

Life

Volquardsen entered the Mölln non-commissioned officer school in 1917 . After the First World War he was accepted into the Reichswehr , of which he was a member until September 30, 1931. During this time he was promoted to lieutenant on April 1, 1927 .

At the end of 1931, Volquardsen joined the SA and the NSDAP . In 1932 he became adjutant of SA Standard 85. From autumn 1932 to spring 1933 he headed the Lockstedt camp of the Reich Board of Trustees for Youth Enhancement .

At the end of 1934, Volquardsen was commissioned to set up and manage the North Sea SA group school at Gut Stift. In January 1935 he was appointed staff leader of the North Sea SA group led by Joachim Meyer-Quade (also often referred to as the Nordmark group). He held this post until his death. At the end of January 1941, he rose to the position of brigade leader within the SA.

On the occasion of the Reichstag elections of April 10, 1938 , Volquardsen ran unsuccessfully on the "List of the Führer for election" for the National Socialist Reichstag . On the evening of November 9, 1938, Volquardsen was instructed by telephone by Meyer-Quade, who was in Munich with Gauleiter Hinrich Lohse, to initiate the anti-Jewish pogroms as part of the Reichskristallnacht in Schleswig-Holstein . As the main organizer, he instructed the most important SA leaders in Schleswig-Holstein at midnight at a hastily called meeting. He also instructed the Kiel fire department in advance not to extinguish the synagogue there , but only to prevent it from spreading. In addition, Volquardsen arranged a meeting of representatives of the Gau and Kreisleitung, the SA, the SS , the SD and the criminal police , in which it was decided that for the murdered Ernst vom Rath “at least two Jews from Kiel had to atone with death. “For this purpose, Messrs. Lask and Lewen were selected, each of whom was assigned a mixed command of SA and SS. According to a report written by Volquardsen, the men were admitted to the Kiel University Hospital in seriously injured condition the morning after the pogrom, but survived.

Shortly after the outbreak of World War II , Volquardsen volunteered as a war volunteer. He died as a first lieutenant and company commander of a paratrooper regiment in the battle of Crete . His grave is in the German military cemetery in Maleme .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of death after the entry on Volquardsen in the database of the Volksbund war graves welfare organization
  2. ↑ Klaus Bästlein: The Jewish pogroms on 9./10. November 1938 in Schleswig-Holstein, in: Grenzfriedensbund (Ed.): Jüdisches Leben und die Novemberpogroms 1938 in Schleswig-Holstein , 1988, p. 18; Bernd Biege: Helpers under Hitler. The Red Cross in the Third Reich , 2000, p. 232.
  3. ^ Bästlein: The Jewish pogroms on 9/10 November 1938 in Schleswig-Holstein, in: Grenzfriedensbund (Ed.): Jüdisches Leben und die Novemberpogroms 1938 in Schlewisg-Holstein , 1988, p. 16.
  4. ↑ Information on the burial site at the Volksbundes War Graves Commission
personal data
SURNAME Volquardsen, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nazi functionary and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1941
Place of death Crete