Frithjof Elmo Porsch

Frithjof Elmo Porsch (born October 19, 1924 in Hamborn ; † November 7, 2015 ), who published under the name Ingo Petersson , was a German writer and a member of the Waffen SS from 1941 to 1945 .

Life

The son of a naval officer spent his youth in Brandenburg , where he attended elementary school. After graduating from school, he began training as a sheep and horse breeder.

In January 1941 he joined the Waffen SS and served in the SS Totenkopf division . After a refusal to give orders , he was transferred to the SS-Fallschirmjäger-Bataillon 500 in 1943 , which was also the probation battalion of the SS. Most recently as SS-Obersturmführer , he was a Soviet prisoner of war for a year after the end of the war . Caused by a shot in the lung during his active service, he is said to have been unable to work after his release from prisoner-of-war. He returned to Duisburg and earned his living by raising sheep and chickens. At the beginning of the 1990s he lived in retirement in East Frisia.

Works

Porsch wrote a total of five books in which he describes, mostly autobiographically, the experiences of the Untersturmführer Vorwärts during and after the Second World War . In the style of Landser literature, the books ignore the critical examination of the past and the war crimes committed by the Waffen SS and pay particular attention to the portrayal of bravery, comradeship and soldier glory.

The publications were published in 1959 by Vowinckel-Verlag , in the 1970s by KW Schütz , which is close to the right-wing extremist NPD , and since 2008 partly by the NPD's own Deutsche Demokratie-Verlag. The book Ein sonderlicher Haufen was indexed in November 1960 and again in January 1973 by the Federal Testing Office for writings harmful to minors . The indexing in 1960 took place at the request of the Bremen Senator for Welfare and Youth Annemarie Mevissen ; The then publisher tried unsuccessfully for years before the Administrative Court of Cologne , the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and finally before the Federal Administrative Court to have the indexation lifted.

• A strange bunch. The saga of Sturmbataillon 500 , Winkelried-Verlag , new edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-938392-53-9
• The escape of the Untersturmführer forward , Winkelried-Verlag, new edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-938392-52-2
• The Forest Wolves - Among Baltic Freedom Fighters , German Voice Publishing House, new edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-935102-30-8
• Baska and her men , German Voice Publishing House, new edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-935102-25-4
• SS-Sturmbataillon 500 am Feind , German Voice Publishing House, new edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-935102-23-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Frithjof Elmo Porsch in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Look to the right: SS veteran and scene publicist , accessed on January 31, 2016.
2. ^ Entry in the DNB
3. ^ Rolf Düsterberg : Soldier and War Experience. German military memorial literature (1945–1961) on the Second World War. Motives, terms, evaluations. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-484-35078-4 , p. 257.
4. ↑ Mecklenburg, Jens (ed.): Handbuch Deutscher Rechtsextremismus, Berlin 1996, p. 426f ( [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )  
5. ↑ Düsterberg, Soldat , p. 45.