Peter Carstens (13 September 1903 in

Brunsbüttel Brunsbüttel () is a town in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany that lies at the mouth of the Elbe river, near the North Sea. It is the location of the western entrance to the Kiel Canal. History The earliest re ...

– January 1945 in

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...

) was a German geneticist and animal breeder and SS-Oberführer for the

Nazi Party The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...

(NSDAP). Carstens joined the NSDAP in 1930 and also joined the SA. He was a professor at the Agricultural College at Hohenheim in 1935. In 1941 he was appointed rector of the State University of Poznan. In 1944 he was part of the management team of the National Socialist Teachers League. He died in January 1945 during a battle. Ernst Klee: ''Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich - Wer war was vor und nach 1945'', Frankfurt am Main, 2. Auflage: Juni 2007, p.90 It was the Battle of Poznan.

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