Fredrik Jensen (soldier)

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Fredrik Jensen (born March 25, 1921 in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway ; † July 31, 2011 in Ystad , Sweden ) was an Obersturmführer in the Waffen-SS and served in the associations "Der Führer" , "Das Reich" and " Wiking " .

After the German occupation of Norway, Jensen joined the Nasjonal Samling of Vidkun Quisling in August 1940 . He began to study politics in Germany, but volunteered for the Waffen SS in 1941. He was deployed on the Eastern Front and, as a simple soldier of SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 4, “Der Führer”, reached shortly before Moscow, where he was wounded. Later he attended the officers' school, he finished the war as SS-Obersturmführer, which corresponded to a first lieutenant in the Wehrmacht. He was wounded five times, the last time a few days before the end of the war.

He was the most distinguished Norwegian by the German Empire during the Second World War . On December 7, 1944, Hitler personally awarded him the German Cross in Gold , which he was the only Norwegian to receive.

After the war he was taken prisoner in a Vienna hospital and spent 18 months in various POW camps, most recently in the Dachau internment camp , from where he managed to escape. After returning to Norway, he was sentenced to three months in prison and denied civil rights for ten years. After his release, he moved to Sweden, where he ran an office machine factory. He later lived in Spain for more than 30 years, including in Marbella . He was married to a Swede for over 50 years.

Since he was wanted by Interpol as a war criminal , he was arrested and deported in 1994 while on a business trip to the USA .

In June 2007 the Spanish press reported that he had had contacts with the Nazi war criminal Aribert Heim . Jensen denied any contact. In 2009 it became known that Heim had probably died in Egypt in 1992.

Jensen denied having been involved in war crimes and defended National Socialism well into old age. Quisling had the best program for Norway; that the Allies left half of Europe to Stalin was a misfortune. But he was no longer a Nazi himself, he was done with that.

Jensen died at the age of 90 in Sweden, in Ystad hospital.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Interview with Fredrik Jensen. (No longer available online.) In: norgesdokumentasjon. December 31, 1999, archived from the original on December 7, 2009 ; Retrieved April 29, 2012 .
  2. ↑ The hunt for the last war criminals. In: FAZ . July 10, 2007, accessed April 12, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Tysk politi: Nordmann skjulte "Doktor død". In: Aftenposten newspaper . June 5, 2007, Retrieved April 12, 2012 (Norwegian).
  4. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer : The German Cross 1941-1945. History and owner. Volume II. Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X
  5. ↑ Waffen-SS holdt seg til folkeretten. In: Dagbladet .no. October 16, 2007, accessed April 12, 2012 (Norwegian).
  6. ↑ a b “I mostly play golf in Spain” says Nazi found in Marbella. In: theolivepress.es. June 12, 2007, accessed April 12, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Norsk nazist Skjulte "Dr. Død ». June 5, 2007, Retrieved April 29, 2012 (Norwegian).
  8. ↑ a b c d Spansk politi på nazijakt hos norsk pensjonist. Dagbladet , June 5, 2007 (Norwegian).
  9. ↑ Concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim has long been dead. In: Welt Online . February 4, 2009. Retrieved April 29, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Jensen, Fredrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian soldier and member of the Waffen SS
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 2011
Place of death Ystad , Sweden