Gunter d'Alquen
Gunter d'Alquen (spoken: Dalken) (born October 24, 1910 in Essen , † May 15, 1998 in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt ) was a National Socialist journalist . He joined the NSDAP at the age of 17 and later became a member of the SS . He rose to the rank of SS-Standartenführer and was initially editor of the Völkischer Beobachter . From 1935 he appeared as the editor of the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps .
Life
Until 1945
Gunter d'Alquen was the son of the Catholic merchant, reserve officer and Freemason Carl d'Alquen. He attended a secondary school in Essen and joined the Hitler Youth in 1925 . D'Alquen became a member of the SA in 1926 and joined the NSDAP in 1927 at the age of 17 ( membership number 66,689).
D'Alquen was active in the National Socialist German Student Union and became a member of the SS on April 10, 1931 (membership number 8,452), in which after just a few years he held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer . He did not complete his studies in history and philology and instead turned to a journalistic career. From 1932 he was a political correspondent in the editorial team of the Völkischer Beobachter and attracted the attention of Heinrich Himmler , who appointed him in March 1935 as chief editor of the Black Corps .
As the mouthpiece of National Socialism and the voice of the SS in the German press, d'Alquen's magazine particularly attacked intellectuals , students , Freemasons, certain scientists, rebellious business people, black marketeers , clergy and other representatives of German society who had aroused Himmler's anger. With its notorious anti-Semitism , the Black Corps saw itself as the moral authority of Germany during the Second World War .
From September 1939, D'Alquen was appointed a prominent war correspondent for the SS and at the end of the war by Himmler as head of the propaganda force of the Waffen-SS , which was given the honorary name of SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers due to its outstanding achievements for the regime .
During the war, D'Alquen et al. a. Awarded the Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP , the Iron Cross II. Class, the War Merit Cross II. Class with Swords, the General Assault Badge as well as the SS Ring of Honor and the SS sword of honor .
post war period
D'Alquens script The SS. History, task and organization of the protection squadron of the NSDAP ( Junker and Dünnhaupt , Berlin 1939) as well as the works published by him Auf Hieb und Stich. Voices currently on the way of a German newspaper ( Eher , Berlin and Munich 1937) and That's the victory! Letters of Faith in Awakening and War (Eher, Berlin 1941) were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone .
After 1945 d'Alquen, who until his death denied any knowledge of the National Socialist human extermination before 1945, was sentenced to ten years in prison in a trial chamber .
In July 1955 d'Alquen was sentenced by a Berlin denazification court to a fine of 60,000 DM , the loss of any pension entitlement and the loss of civil rights for three years.
He was found guilty of having played an important role in the Nazi state in war propaganda, agitation against churches, Jews and abroad, and of having incited murder . After further investigations into d'Alquen's income from this activity, he was sentenced in January 1958 to a further fine of 28,000 DM.
In 1953 he belonged to the Naumann circle, according to the British secret service . At the end of the 1950s, Gunter d'Alquen became a partner in the Krall und Roth weaving mill in Mönchengladbach.
literature
- Werner Augustinovic, Martin Moll: Gunter d'Alquen - propagandist of the SS state. In: Ronald Smelser , Enrico Syring (ed.): The SS: Elite under the skull . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2000, ISBN 3-506-78562-1 .
- Jan Brandt : Strictly maintaining the form. The management of the SS magazine "Das Schwarze Korps". ( Memento of July 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 7, 2005, p. 34.
- Christian Kositza: “The Black Corps. The newspaper of the protection squadrons of the NSDAP. Organ der Reichsführung SS ”on the Judeocide . Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-2882-9 .
- Jochen Lehnhardt: The Waffen-SS: Birth of a Legend. Himmler's warriors in Nazi propaganda . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78688-3 .
- Mario Zeck: The black corps. History and shape of the organ of the Reichsführung SS. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-484-34051-7 .
Web links
- Writings by Gunter d'Alquen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gunter d'Alquen on the family homepage ( Memento from July 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) ( archive link)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b DIE ZEIT, edition of November 22, 1968, accessed on May 3, 2014
- ↑ Gordon Williamson: The SS - Hitler's Instrument of Power. Neuer Kaiser Verlag 1998, p. 244
- ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-h.html
- ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit.html
- ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 13. Source BA N 1080/272.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alquen, Gunter d ' |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1998 |
| Place of death | Mönchengladbach-Rheydt |