Kurt Petter (3 February 1909 – 3 October 1969) was a German physician, youth leader and educational administrator. Petter was born in 1909, the son of Bernhard and Marie Petter. He studied medicine at the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. The University of Würzburg is one of ...

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

and

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. During his final exam period he was

pediatrician Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until the ...

to 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. ...

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. He was appointed Hitler Youth area leader for

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region in 1933. In 1939 he was appointed head of the Reichsführerschule in

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. In January 1937 he served as an inspector-general of the

Adolf Hitler Schools Adolf Hitler Schools (AHS) were 12 day schools run by the SS in fascist Germany from 1937 to 1945. Their aim was to indoctrinate young people into the ideologies of the Nazi Party. They were for young people aged 14 to 18 years old and were single ...

with the rank of Gebietsführer. On 20 April 1942 he was promoted to Obergebietsführer and served as Deputy to

Artur Axmann Artur Axmann (18 February 1913 – 24 October 1996) was the German Nazi national leader (''Reichsjugendführer'') of the Hitler Youth (''Hitlerjugend'') from 1940 to 1945, when the war ended. He was the last living Nazi with a rank equivalent to ...

and as head of the Adolf Hitler Schools. From February to May 1945, he was acting

Stabsführer A ''Stabsführer'' (translated as Staff Leader) served as a deputy to the leader of Hitler Youth, National Socialist Flyers Corps, National Socialist Motor Corps or Sturmabteilung. It was furthermore a Hitler Youth paramilitary rank held by the ...

of the Hitler Youth following the death of Helmut Möckel. He was also a senior physician advising on physical and nutritional requirements for former Hitler Youth joining the

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. During April and May 1945 he served as Regimental Medical Officer to the 96th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment, 38th SS Division Nibelungen of the

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. Petter was

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after the war and upon his release moved to

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

. He married Carin Lennman (1912-1989), daughter of Lieutenant Henning Fredrik Gustaf Lennman (1879-1947) and Margarethe Lennman, geb. Eitze (1882-1965). Henning was son of Konteradmiral of the Royal Swedish Navy Fredrik Wilhelm Lennman (1840-1917) and Alice Lennman, geb. von Heidenstam (1850-1926). He worked as a pediatrician in his own medical practice in Hamburg, Germany until his death in 1969 and is buried in

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1909 births 1969 deaths Physicians in the Nazi Party Hitler Youth members German expatriates in Sweden German pediatricians Nazi Party officials Waffen-SS personnel SS officers {{Germany-bio-stub