Jens Möller (Nazi functionary)

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Jens Möller

Jens Nicolaisen Möller (* July 2, 1894 in Warnitz ; † November 28, 1951 in Gravenstein ) was a veterinarian and from 1935 to 1945 was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party of North Schleswig (NSDAP-N) , after the National Socialist conformity in 1938, the umbrella organization of the German minority in Denmark .

Life and work

Jens Möller graduated from high school in Flensburg in 1914. He was called up for military service, made it to the position of company commander in World War I , was awarded the Iron Cross II and I Class and the Knight's Cross of the Hohenzollers House Order. During the war he was wounded several times and received the Wound Badge in gold.

After the end of the war Möller studied veterinary medicine in Hanover and Berlin and passed the state examination in 1921. In 1922 he received his doctorate in Berlin. med. vet. From 1922 to 1924 he was an assistant to Eugen Fröhner at the Berlin Veterinary University . In 1924 he worked as an assistant at the veterinarian Cold-Christensen.

In 1925 he bought his veterinary practice in Gravenstein . In 1932 he became secretary of the Sønderjydsk Dyrlægeforening (South Jutland Veterinary Association). In 1935 he was elected as a compromise candidate for party leader of the National Socialist parties of the German minority in North Schleswig , which were fighting for supremacy . When he was brought into line in 1938, he was appointed " ethnic group leader ". Möller was the main figure in the massive Nazification of the minority organizations before World War II .

From 1939 to 1943 he was an elected member of the Danish Folketing as a member of the Schleswig Party . During the occupation, Jens Möller obeyed the German demand that he and the other home German leaders should promote military service among the young people in the minority. He was not entirely enthusiastic about this, however, since it was precisely the group that was supposed to secure the future of the minority. So he got some of the young men declared as “indispensable” for the minority. This applied both to the first round of recruitment in 1940-41 and to the targeted campaign of the Waffen SS in spring 1942.

As one of the leading figures during the National Socialist period of the German minority, Jens Möller was interned in 1945 and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment because he was actively involved in recruiting young members of the minority for military service and was responsible for the establishment of the two military ones Corps: the "temporary volunteer corps" and the "self-protection". He was also suspected of spying on Danes during the occupation for the German police authorities in Denmark. However, this charge of high treason and treason had to be dropped. In an appeal hearing, the regional court reduced the sentence to 12 years, and as early as 1950 Möller was pardoned and dismissed on the occasion of the king's birthday. At a general meeting of the new political organization of the German ethnic group, the Bund Deutscher Nordschleswiger, he sharply criticized the new leadership of the ethnic group because it had left the volunteers at the front and their relatives in the lurch, a criticism that the minority with their widespread "Faarhus mentality" (after the camp in Fårhus , where many functionaries and other members of the German minority were imprisoned after the end of the occupation) found a good breeding ground. However, Möller no longer had any influence: on November 28, 1951, he was killed in a traffic accident.

politics

  • 1935 to 1945 ethnic group leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party North Schleswig (NSDAP-N).
  • 1939 to 1943 member of the Danish Folketing as a member of the Schleswig party.

literature

  • Ernst Siegfried Hansen : "Thistles along the way". Deutscher Heimat-Verlag, Bielefeld-Bethel 1957.
  • Harboe Kardel : Five decades in North Schleswig. A contribution to the history of the political organizations of the German ethnic group in the period from 1920 to 1970 (= writings of the local history study group for North Schleswig issue 22), Aabenraa 1971.
  • Henrik Skov Kristensen: Between Hitler and Home. Ethnic group leader Jens Möller. In: Robert Bohn u. a. (Ed.): Democratic history. Yearbook for Schleswig Holstein Vol. 19. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Geschichtsverlag, Malente 2008, ISBN 3-933862-40-X . Online at the Advisory Board for History (PDF; 993 kB)
  • Ditlev Tamm: Retsopgøret efter besættelsen. Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Folag, Copenhagen 1984, ISBN 87-574-4260-6 .

swell

  • Nekrolog in "Deutscher Volkskalender Nordschleswig" born in 1953.
  • Writings of the local history study group for North Schleswig issue 43/44, 1981.

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personal data
SURNAME Möller, Jens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Möller, Jens Nicolaisen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish veterinarian and politician, member of the Folketing
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Warnitz
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1951
Place of death Gravenstein