Werner Altendorf

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Werner Altendorf (around 1934)

Werner Altendorf (born November 24, 1906 in Neuruppin ; † May 3, 1945 in Bad Kleinen ) was a German functionary of the Hitler Youth , writer and politician ( NSDAP ).

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After graduating from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Neuruppin, Altendorf studied law at the universities in Jena , Berlin and Breslau from 1925 , but dropped out of his studies in 1930 without a degree. From December 1929 to July 1930 he was a squad leader in the Nazi student union in Breslau.

From December 1929 Altendorf belonged to the Hitler Youth (HJ) and joined the NSDAP on March 1, 1930. From July to December 1930 he appeared as a district speaker for the NSDAP for Central Silesia North. In December 1930 he became a full-time Hitler Youth leader. Among other things, in April 1931 he took over the leadership of the HJ group Silesia and also the HJ group middle in Breslau, in which the HJ districts of Saxony, Thuringia, Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt were combined. In November 1931 he became the leader of the HJ area of ​​Silesia with the districts of Breslau, Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia and also took over the leadership of the HJ district of Upper Silesia. From 1932 to November 1934 he was leader of the Hitler Youth area in Wroclaw and at the same time area young people clerk in the Hitler Youth area management. From December 1934 to November 1942 he was the leader of the HJ area Mecklenburg in Bad Kleinen and Schwerin . Since April 1942, he held the rank of HJ Obergebietsführer.

From September 1939 Altendorf took part in the Second World War. He was promoted to sergeant major in May 1940 and retired from military service as a lieutenant seriously wounded in March 1941. In November 1942 he was transferred to the Reich Youth Leadership and appointed Inspector of the Reich Youth Leader for the HJ Land Service. In November 1943 he was sent to the main cultural office of the Reich Propaganda Administration , where he was supposed to look after young artists at the request of the office manager Karl Cerff . When this was not approved by the Reich Treasurer , Altendorf was taken over by the party chancellery and, in October 1944, transferred to the NSDAP Gauleitung in Katowice as district leader of the NSDAP .

Altendorf was a member of the Prussian Landtag for a few months in 1933 . Altendorf was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag from November 1933 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 .

Altendorf worked as a writer and songwriter. He was a well-known HJ poet and is considered to be the inventor of the Adolf Hitler March of German Youth (1934), which was adopted as the “Confessional March of German Youth” for the entire Reich. His literary work mainly includes songs, poems and amateur plays for the Sturmabteilung (SA) and for the Hitler Youth.

On May 3, 1945, shortly before the end of the Second World War, Altendorf committed suicide in Bad Kleinen or in the American internment camp in Dachau.

After the end of the Second World War, Altendorf's writings were Hitlerjungens im Kampf, Ein Spiel aus dem Beginn der Hitler-Jugend (Kaiser, Munich 1934), Trutz Teufel und Tod (Kaiser, Munich 1934) and Ein Junges Volk Rises . Battle songs ( Voggenreiter , Potsdam 1935) placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone . In the German Democratic Republic , this list was followed by his Es war ein Volk (Kaiser, Munich 1938).

Publications

  • Young people stand up. Poems , 1930
  • Because we are marching! Words and Wise Men , Breslau 1932
  • Hitler boys in battle. A game from the early days of the Hitler Youth , Munich 1934
  • Defy the devil and death. A game of freedom and law , Munich 1934
  • A young people stand up. Battle songs , Potsdam 1935
  • The zodiac. A happy philosophy with our distant relatives , Potsdam 1936
  • It became a people , Munich 1936

literature

  • Michael Buddrus : Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3598116152 .
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Langer deviating: in the American internment camp Dachau. - Cf. Hermann Langer: "In the same step and step." The history of the Hitler Youth in Mecklenburg from the beginning until 1945 . Rostock, 2001. p. 188.
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit.html
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit.html
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit.html
personal data
SURNAME Altendorf, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuruppin
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1945
Place of death Bad little ones