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Jürgen Ohlsen (15 March 1917 – 23 September 1994) was a German actor best remembered for portraying "Heini "Quex" Völker" in the 1933
Nazi propaganda
The propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation o ...
film
''Hitlerjunge Quex'' (''Our Flag Leads Us Forward'').
Career
Ohlsen was born in
Schöneberg
Schöneberg () is a locality of Berlin, Germany. Until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was a separate borough including the locality of Friedenau. Together with the former borough of Tempelhof it is now part of the new borough of Tempelh ...
,
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
, Germany on 15 March 1917.
Due to the illness of actor
Hermann Braun
Hermann Braun (November 1, 1917 – January 18 or 20, 1945) was a German film actor, and the son of chamber singer Carl Braun (opera singer), Carl Braun.
Biography
New York City-born, Braun made his film debut in 1933 with ''Der Jäger aus Kur ...
, Ohlsen inherited the leading role of Heini Völker (nicknamed 'Quex') in
''Hitlerjunge Quex'' (''Our Flag Leads Us Forward'', 1933). Units of the Berlin
Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth (german: Hitlerjugend , often abbreviated as HJ, ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") in July 1926. ...
also joined the cast of the film. Ohlsen himself was only credited as ''Ein Hitlerjunge'' (a Hitler Youth member). The film, based on the popular propaganda novel ''
Der Hitlerjunge Quex'', which was in turned based on the real-life murder of Hitler Youth member
Herbert Norkus
Herbert Norkus (26 July 1916 – 24 January 1932) was a Hitler Youth member who was killed by German Communists. He became a role model and martyr for the Hitler Youth and was widely used in Nazi propaganda, most prominently as the subject of ...
, was highly successful in Germany at the time.
Ohlsen joined the
Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth (german: Hitlerjugend , often abbreviated as HJ, ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") in July 1926. ...
in 1934 when the
Nazis
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...
dissolved Berlin's Der Jungenbund Südlegion , of which he was a member. He appears not to have taken the Party's anti-Semitic position seriously, for in 1935 he was disciplined for repeatedly playing tennis with a Jew.
At the time,
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broadcasts into Germany routinely spread scandalous stories about Nazi officials and other German public figures.
One of these stories alleged that Ohlsen was a homosexual and the lover of Hitler Youth leader
Baldur von Schirach
Baldur Benedikt von Schirach (9 May 1907 – 8 August 1974) was a German politician who is best known for his role as the Nazi Party national youth leader and head of the Hitler Youth from 1931 to 1940. He later served as ''Gauleiter'' and ''Re ...
.
The rumor caught on in Germany and by at least the fall of 1938, the verb "quexen" (literally "to quex") had entered the Hitler Youth vocabulary as a euphemism for homosexual intercourse.
[Gottfried Lorenz]
''Hans Siemsen – Die Geschichte des Hitlerjungen Adolf Goers – Der Fall des Harburger HJ-Führers K. Sch.''
Accessed: 12 September 2012.[Rentschler (1996) p. 327 n. 68.]
In 1935, Ohlsen played the role of a supporter of aviator
Ernst Udet
Ernst Udet (26 April 1896 – 17 November 1941) was a German pilot during World War I and a ''Luftwaffe'' Colonel-General (''Generaloberst'') during World War II.
Udet joined the Imperial German Air Service at the age of 19, and eventually ...
in
Heinz Paul
Heinz Paul (13 August 1893 – 14 March 1983) was a German screenwriter, film producer and film director, director. He was married to the actress Hella Moja.
Selected filmography Director
* ''The Street of Forgetting'' (1923)
* ''The Dice Game of ...
's ''Wunder des Fliegens (Wonder of Flying)''.
His acting career subsequently ended and by 1940 he was no longer a public figure.
Later years and death
After he reached adulthood, Ohlsen was deemed suspicious by the Nazi regime. According to a report by the
Osnabrück
Osnabrück (; wep, Ossenbrügge; archaic ''Osnaburg'') is a city in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is situated on the river Hase in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest. With a population ...
Gestapo
The (), abbreviated Gestapo (; ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organi ...
, during 1940 or 1941 it was considered to send him to a
concentration camp
Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply ...
where he would have been killed. Regarding the concentration camp rumor, British film historian David Welch stated in his ''Propaganda and the German Cinema 1933–1945 ''Italic text' that he could find no evidence.
Ohlsen went from being a HJ to the NS Student Bund, then the Reich Labor Service, and on 15 January 1940 he entered the Wehrmacht where he served with distinction, winning both the Iron Cross II and the Iron Cross. He fought as a sapper on the Eastern Front between August 1941 and February 1944. in some ferocious Soviet battles.These included Charkov and Bel- gorod in October 1941, the Donetsk battle the next month, and from June to the end of December 1942, in various significant defensive actions in and around Kirov. He was evacuated to the Military Hospital at Baden bei Wien (Vienna) due to ‘multiple grenade splinters throughout his entire body.’and recovered there from 24 February 1944.
After
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, Ohlsen led a private life. He died on 23 September 1994 at the age of 77 in
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...
.
Filmography
* ''
Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend'' also known as ''Our Flag Leads Us Forward''. (1933; 95 mins.) Directed by
Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff (10 March 1882 – 20 April 1945) was a German film director, best known for the propaganda films he made in the Nazi era.
Life and career
Steinhoff started his career as a stage actor in the 1900s and later worked as a stag ...
. Ohlsen played the starring role of Heini Völker. Title translation: ''Hitler Youth Quex. A Film of the Sacrifice of German Youth''.
* ''Alle Macht mit'' (1933; 6 mins) Directed by Franz Wenzler
* ''
Miracle of Flight
''Miracle of Flight'' is a 1974 British animated short comedy film written and directed by Terry Gilliam.
Synopsis
''Ever since Man first observed the smooth, graceful soaring of a Boeing 707, he has had an unquenchable desire to fly.''
Aft ...
'' (1935; 79 mins.) Directed by
Heinz Paul
Heinz Paul (13 August 1893 – 14 March 1983) was a German screenwriter, film producer and film director, director. He was married to the actress Hella Moja.
Selected filmography Director
* ''The Street of Forgetting'' (1923)
* ''The Dice Game of ...
Ohlsen played the role of Heinz Muthesius. German ace
Ernst Udet
Ernst Udet (26 April 1896 – 17 November 1941) was a German pilot during World War I and a ''Luftwaffe'' Colonel-General (''Generaloberst'') during World War II.
Udet joined the Imperial German Air Service at the age of 19, and eventually ...
starred in this film.
[Bernhard Chiari, Matthias Rogg, and Wolfgang Schmidt, eds. ''Krieg und Militär im Film des 20. Jahrhunderts''. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2003. p. 383 n. 37.]
References
Sources
*Baird, Jay W. (1992). ''To Die for Germany: Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon''. Indiana University Press.a .
* Buscher, Paulus (1998) ''Das Stigma.'' Koblenz
* Chiari, Bernhard, Matthias Rogg, and Wolfgang Schmidt, eds. ''Krieg und Militär im Film des 20. Jahrhunderts''. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2003.
* Gillespie, William (2022). Hitler Youth Quex – A Guide for the English–speaking Reader, German Films Dot Net, Potts Point, NSW, Australia, ISBN
*
"Perfect Youth: Irks Nazis By Associating With Jew." ''New York Times'', August 23, 1935, p. 9. (Subscription only)
*Rentschler, Eric (1993) ''Emotional engineering: Hitler youth Quex''. Center for German and European Studies, University of California,
* Rentschler, Eric (1996) ''The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
* Steinwascher, Gerd, ed. ''Gestapo Osnabrück meldet--: Polizei- und Regierungsberichte aus dem Regierungsbezirk Osnabrück aus den Jahren 1933 bis 1936''. Osnabrück, Germany: Selbstverlag des Vereins für Geschichte und Landeskunde von Osnabrück, 1995, p. 267, Entry No. 29.
* Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995'', Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 95.
External links
''Jürgen Ohlsen at Filmportal.de''*
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1917 births
1994 deaths
20th-century German male actors
Burials in Germany
German male child actors
German male film actors
Hitler Youth members
Male actors from Berlin
Nazi propagandists
People from the Weimar Republic