The Adolf Hitler Schools (1937)

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The Adolf Hitler Schools (1937)

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Post by David Thompson » 19 Oct 2004, 05:20

"Document 2653-PS: The Third Reich [Das Dritte Reich]: The Way of the German Youth [partial translation]", in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression. Volume V: US Government Printing Office, District of Columbia: 1946. pp. 359-361.
The Third Reich

[Das Dritte Reich]:

The Way of the German Youth

[Edited by: Gerd Ruhle Fifth Year, 1937 Published by Hans Eugen Hummel, Berlin NW 7. Pages 117-118.]

At the regional meeting [Gautag] of the district [Gau] "Bayrische Ostmark," the Fuehrer said to his men (6 June):
"You, my brown shirts, you are the fighting troops of this whole development [Entwicklung] you are the representatives of this political mission. You were the ones who carried this banner first, and I know you will continue to carry it far into the German future, and when the last man among you has passed by, the first columns of the German youth will already be there. An endless stream of German blood and of German life.

"Thus, generations after generations of our people will march on in our history. With this banner always in view which obligates us to our people, to its honor, to its Freedom and to our community, to our real National Socialist fraternity."

"This German Youth marches in the Hitler-Youth to carry on this banner into the German future. A new great task was put before it at the beginning of the year, which found its expression in the establishment of the Adolf Hitler Schools. The Fuehrer's decree says: 'I give my consent, after having received the report of the Reichsorganizationslehrer of the NSDAP and of the Youth Leader [Jugend Fuehrer] that the National Socialist Schools to be built which are also supposed to serve as preliminary schools (Vorschuler) for the National Socialist Ordensburg may carry my name.'


Berlin, 15 January 1937
Adolf Hitler."

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Two days later, the Reich Youth Leader [Reichsjugendfuehrer] Party-member von Schirach, and the Reichsorganisationsleiter of the NSDAP, Party-member Dr. Ley, together made the following statement:
The Fuehrer has issued the above decree concerning the Adolf-Hitler-Schools of the NSDAP, on the basis of a plan which had been worked out by us in cooperation with each other. Therewith NSDAP and the Hitler Youth have received the new enormous task which reaches far beyond the present into the distant future.

Further details concerning the Adolf-Hitler-Schools will not yet be published today. But in order to avoid confusion, we state the following principles:

1. The Adolf-Hitler-Schools are units of the Hitler-Youth, and come under its jurisdiction. Directives regarding the subjects to be taught, the curriculum and the teachers staff will be issued coherently throughout the Reich by the undersigned Reich leaders.

2. The Adolf-Hitler-School comprises six classes. Generally admission takes place upon the completion of the 12th year.

3. Admitted shall be such boys who have proved themselves to be outstanding in the German Junior Hitler Youth Jungvolk and who are recommended by their competent superiors.

4. The training in the Adolf-Hitler-Schools is free of charge.

5. The supervision of the Schools falls under the jurisdiction of the district leader of the NSDAP Hoheitsrechte des Gauleiters]. Either he himself exercises the right of supervision, or he transfers its execution to the Educational Bureau of the District [Gauschulungsampt].

6. After a successful examination any career in the Party and in the Reich is open to the Adolf-Hitler-Student.

Munich, 17 January 1937
The Reichsorganisationsleiter of the NSDAP Dr. Ley
The Youth Leader of the German Reich Baldur V. Schirach


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The creation of these schools is a revolutionary feat of decisive significance. Through these schools any one gifted enough is being given a fair chance in National Socialist realization of a word, which during the liberalistic period, always remained a misunderstood demand only. This chance is now open to any young German who according to his character and his achievements appears to be called upon to fill a responsible position in the National Socialist Reich without regard to the economic or social position of his parents, and the means at his disposal.

This is true socialism, not the equalization of people who are not on the same level, but the creation of equal possibilities to rise. Whatever road the individual fellow-German [Volksgenosse] wants to follow, then shall depend on his achievements and on his character. The first gathering of selected educators for the Adolf-Hitler-Schools took place from the 7th till the 13th March in Potsdam. And already on 19 April the first classes of the Adolf-Hitler-Schools were opened at the Ordensburg Groessinsee.

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Post by waffen » 19 Oct 2004, 10:34

what pictures of the schools or propaganda movies are still around? are there many well known people who did there reich education there and what did they go on to do after the war?


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Post by Geoff Walden » 19 Oct 2004, 17:02

The Adolf Hitler School at Erwitte still exists. Here is a period photo. You can see this same view today, minus the Hakenkreuz.

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Post by Helly Angel » 19 Oct 2004, 19:09

"Panoramic of the Camp Vogelsang where al the same as in those of Burg Sonthofen and Krössinsee, in Pomerania, they are forged in the stiffest discipline the future leaders of the Party."
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Post by Helly Angel » 19 Oct 2004, 19:11

"Exams in the schools Adolf Hitler. The Dr. Ley, Schwarz and Baldur von Schirach, all they have remained admired of the high level of know-how of the students."
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Post by Helly Angel » 19 Oct 2004, 19:12

"Check of shoes in a center of political education of the Schools Adolf Hitler."
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Post by Helly Angel » 19 Oct 2004, 19:19

"In the presence of the Leader of the Organization of the Reich, Dr. Ley (center), von Schirach and Hanke pass magazine to the students of a School Adolf Hitler the day of its inauguration."
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Post by Knut Hamsun » 20 Oct 2004, 09:35

Ahoi,
I like to add some facts about Adolf-Hitler-Schools. The picture G.Walden posted has nothing to do with AHS. The Reichsschulungsburg Erwitte was a building of the DAF and used to educate members of this organisation.
In the third reich exist three schools forms side by side. First the regulare schools run by the state under the leadership of Bernhard Rust. Then the former "Kadettenanstalten" now called "NPEA / NAPOLA" (Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten) and the AHS. In 1937 R. Ley and B. von Schirach opened the first ten schools in Crössinsee. 1941 two other schools were founded. There still exist no separate building for these schools so they were lodged in the Ordensburgen Sonthofen, Vogelsang and Crössinsee. In 1938 cornerstone ceremonies were help up. But until 1945 no building was able to be use as schoolbuilding.
To "Waffen":
In Sonthofen worked a well known mountaineer as teacher, Anderl Heckmaier (the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, which A. Heckmair climbed in 1938 with Heinrich Harrer, Wiggerl Vörg, and Fritz Kasparek) and another in germany well known actor Hardy Krüger. After the war Krüger writes and speeks rubish about this time at AHS and he isn`t very popular when the old men from all AHS meet every year.
There exist an interesting videodocumentation called "Die Adolf-Hitler-Schulen" where you can find old black and white filmfootage from private archives and propaganda films. The film shows interviews with former AHS schoolboys and teacher. The documentary presents a lot of then and now filmmaterial of the three Ordensburgen Sonthofen, Vogelsang and Crössinsee.
Videotape (PAL/VHS) available at:
http://www.zeitreisen-verlag.de
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Knut

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Post by waffen » 20 Oct 2004, 11:00

:D thanks for replys .. special thankyou to KNUT HAMSUN,for information about the old movies.

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Re: The Adolf Hitler Schools (1937)

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Post by Popp-Köhler » 31 Mar 2010, 22:05

Fascinating thread...

Ordensburg Sonthofen question...

I am in the process of trying to recontruct some family history. I have been told by my mother that toward the end of the war, she and her mother, Estella Popp-Köhler were in Sonthofen and had travelled there to repatriate with my uncle who was enrolled, possibly, in a Hitler Youth school. He would have been 15 yrs old in the spring of 1945.

Are there any rosters for the school in Sonthofen? I am trying to establish when he would have attended. I understand it was compulsory to be a member in HY.

My mother recalls that her mother, a pianist, played for the American troops who were in Sonthofen at the end of the war...would that have been the US Third Army?

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Re: AHS Student or Faculty Roster

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Post by Popp-Köhler » 23 Apr 2010, 15:04

Would anyone have the ability to determine which an Eberhard Spörr was attached to?

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Post by Popp-Köhler » 24 Aug 2010, 04:42

As part of my research I have just received a copy of the book "History of the Ordensburg Sonthofen" (ISBN 3-920269-01-2) by Hartmut Happel. In this book the author outlines the initial organization of the ten schools by location:

1. East Prussia, later Tilsit
2. Kurmark - later Mark Brandenburg (respectively Frankfurt)
3. Cologne-Aachen, later Waldbröl
4. Koblenz-Trier - later Koblenz
5. Saxony - later Plauen
6. Thuringia - later Weimer
7. Franconia - later Hesselberg
8. Hochland - later Munich-Upper Bavaria / Chiemsee
9. Mecklenburg - later Westmark / Landstuhl
10. Saarpfalz - later Westmark

In 1941 and 1943 the following schools were added:

11. Silesia - later Bohmen-Mähren
12. Iglau - later Lower Silesia

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Post by Wessel » 27 Aug 2010, 21:56

Photos from the Hoffmann book "Robert Ley" on Sonthofen.
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Post by Wessel » 28 Aug 2010, 10:03

Crossinsee.
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