Klaus Detlef Sierck (30 March 1925 – 1944) was a German child actor. He was the son of the theatre and film director Hans Detlef Sierck (better-known today as Hollywood director Douglas Sirk) and the theatre actress Lydia Brincken. After his parents separated in 1928, Sierck grew up with his mother and was distanced from his father during the Nazi period after the latter married a Jewish woman. Klaus Detlef Sierck was active in film between 1935 and 1942. One of Sierck's greatest roles was Kadett Hohenhausen in Karl Ritter's '' Kadetten'' in 1939. The anti-Russian propaganda film about

Prussian Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an e ...

cadets captured and abused by inhuman Cossacks during the

Seven Years' War The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict that involved most of the European Great Powers, and was fought primarily in Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. Other concurrent conflicts include the French and Indian War (175 ...

could not initially be shown due to the Hitler–Stalin Pact and was only shown in German cinemas in December 1941, after the attack on the Soviet Union. He was conscripted into the German Army during the

Second World War 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 opposi ...

, and while serving on the Eastern Front as a fusilier in the Panzer-Grenadier-Division Großdeutschland was killed in action at Novoaleksandrovka either on 6 March 1944 or 22 May 1944.Claus Detlev Sierck gefallen. Film-Kurier, No. 45, 6 June 1944

Selected filmography

*'' Die Saat geht auf'' (1935) *'' Serenade'' (1937) *'' Streit um den Knaben Jo'' (1937) *'' Schatten über St. Pauli'' (1938) *'' Verwehte Spuren'' (1938) *'' Preußische Liebesgeschichte'' (1938) *'' Sehnsucht nach Afrika'' (1939) *'' Das Recht auf Liebe'' (1940) *'' Aus erster Ehe'' (1940) *'' Kadetten'' (1941) *''

Kopf hoch, Johannes! Kopf (german: head) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Abigail Kopf, American mass shooting survivor * Brian Kopf, Historian and Economist * David Kopf, American research scholar on South Asian history * Herb Kopf (1901 ...

'' (1941) *'' Der Große Konig'' (1942)

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* 1925 births 1944 deaths Male actors from Berlin German male film actors German male child actors 20th-century German male actors German Army soldiers of World War II German military personnel killed in World War II {{Germany-actor-stub