Kurt Petter
Kurt Petter was a German physician, youth leader and educational administrator.
Kurt Petter | |
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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 |
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
- Jürgen Schultz (1978). Die Akademie für Jugendführung der Hitlerjugend in Braunschweig. Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei und Verlag. p. 213. ISBN 3-87884-011-X.
- Peter D. Stachura (1975). Nazi youth in the Weimar Republic. Clio Books. p. 178. ISBN 0874361990.
- Robert Döpp (2003). Jenaplan-Pädagogik im Nationalsozialismus. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 565. ISBN 3825864960.
- Jean-Denis Lepage (2009). Hitler Youth, 1922-1945: An Illustrated History. McFarland. p. 96. ISBN 0786452811.
- Gerhard Rempel (1989). Hitler's Children: The Hitler Youth and the SS. UNC Press Books. p. 141. ISBN 0807842990.
- 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.
- "Nättraby kyrkogård" (PDF). Länsstyrelserna.