Gunter d'Alquen

Gunter d'Alquen (1941)

Gunter d'Alquen (German pronunciation: [ˈdalkən]) (24 October 1910 – 15 May 1998) was chief editor of the SS weekly, Das Schwarze Korps ("The Black Corps"), the official newspaper of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and commander of the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers (named after the SS war correspondent and editor of Das Schwarze Korps Kurt Eggers, who was killed in action in 1943).

Life

Gunter d’Alquen was the son of Catholic businessman and reserve officer Carl d’Alquen. He attended grammar school in Essen and joined the Hitler Youth in 1925. In 1926, D’Alquen became a member of the SA and as a 17-year-old joined the NSDAP.

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Bibliography

• Fellerer, K.G; Kämper, D.; Bremer, H., eds. (1972). "d'Alquen, Johannes Peter Cornelius". Rheinische Musiker. Beiträge zur rheinischen Musikgeschichte. A. Volk (Nr. 97): 8. LCCN 63028740. 
• Christian Kositza: 'Das Schwarze Korps. Die Zeitung der Schutzstaffeln der NSDAP. Organ der Reichsführung SS' über den Judeozid', Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-2882-9.