Jürgen Ohlsen (15 March 1917 – 23 September 1994) was a German actor best remembered for portraying "Heini "Quex" Völker" in the 1933

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film ''Hitlerjunge Quex'' (''Our Flag Leads Us Forward'').

Career

Ohlsen was born in

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, Germany on 15 March 1917. Due to the illness of actor

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, Ohlsen inherited the leading role of Heini Völker (nicknamed 'Quex') in ''Hitlerjunge Quex'' (''Our Flag Leads Us Forward'', 1933). Units of the Berlin

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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

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, was highly successful in Germany at the time. Ohlsen joined the

in 1934 when the

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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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Later years and death

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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 * ''

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'' (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

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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''
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ohlsen, Jurgen 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