Kurt Petter

Kurt Petter
Stabsführer of the Hitler Youth
Preceded by Helmut Möckel
Succeeded by Office abolished
Personal details
Born 3 February 1909
Died 1969 (aged 59–60)
Nättraby, Blekinge County, Sweden
Political party National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)
Spouse(s) Carin Lennman
Profession Physician, youth leader, educational administrator

Kurt Petter was a German physician, youth leader and educational administrator.

Petter was born in 1909, the son of Bernhard and Marie Petter. He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, University of Bonn and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[1] During his final exam period he was pediatrician to the Hitler Youth in Jena.[1]

He was appointed Hitler Youth area leader for Weimar region in 1933.[2] In 1939 he was appointed head of the Reichsführerschule in Potsdam. In January 1937 he served as an inspector-general of the Adolf Hitler Schools with the rank of Gebietsführer.[3][4] On 20 April 1942 he was promoted to Obergebietsführer[3] and served as Deputy to Artur Axmann and as head of the Adolf Hitler Schools.[5] From February to May 1945, he was acting Stabsführer of the Hitler Youth following the death of Helmut Möckel.[1]

He was also a senior physician advising on physical and nutritional requirements for former Hiter Youth joining the German Army.[6] During April and May 1945 he served as Regimental Medical Officer to the 96th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment, 38th SS Division Nibelungen of the Waffen-SS.[6]

Petter was interned after the war and upon his release moved to Sweden. He married Carin Lennman (1912-1989), daughter of Rear-Admiral Fredrik Lennman of the Royal Swedish Navy. He practised medicine until his death in 1969 and is buried in Nättraby.[7]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jürgen Schultz (1978). Die Akademie für Jugendführung der Hitlerjugend in Braunschweig. Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei und Verlag. p. 213. ISBN 3-87884-011-X.
  2. ↑ Peter D. Stachura (1975). Nazi youth in the Weimar Republic. Clio Books. p. 178. ISBN 0874361990.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Robert Döpp (2003). Jenaplan-Pädagogik im Nationalsozialismus. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 565. ISBN 3825864960.
  4. ↑ Jean-Denis Lepage (2009). Hitler Youth, 1922-1945: An Illustrated History. McFarland. p. 96. ISBN 0786452811.
  5. ↑ Gerhard Rempel (1989). Hitler's Children: The Hitler Youth and the SS. UNC Press Books. p. 141. ISBN 0807842990.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Klaus Schneider (1999). Spuren der Nibelungen 1945: die Kämpfe bei Bad Abbach und die Rettung von Regensburg: eine Dokumentation über Soldaten der 38. Grenadier-Division "Nibelungen" der Waffen-SS. K. Vowinckel-Verlag. p. 94. ISBN 3921655900.
  7. ↑ "Nättraby kyrkogård". Länsstyrelserna.