BDM Girl Erika Jordan

[rikster]

Does anyone have any info on BDM girl Erika Jordan who died October 28th 1932 aged 17?
She is listed as the only female of the HJ to die during the "Kampfzeit"

cheers, Rik

[Nisse]

Hello,

Very little is known about this girl from Berlin, but I might a tiny bit to what you know already.

According to contemporary National Socialist publications in Berlin Jordan was beaten unconscious by Communists in the district of Wilmersdorf on 26 October and later died in hospital. Although a veritable cult was built around dead SA men and HJ boys, especially Herbert Norkus as Hitlerjunge "Quex", Erika Jordan quickly disappeared from the official Totenliste of the NSDAP.
According to Martin Klaus, a Führerinnenschule in the BDM-Obergau Berlin was named after Jordan during the Third Reich.

Sources:
On Jordan as the victim of Communist violence see a small note in the entry for Wednesday 26 October in “Sieben Tage hat die Woche“, in the NSDAP-periodical Berliner Front on 5 November 1932.
Martin Klaus: Mädchenerziehung zur Zeit fascistischer Herrschaft in Deutschland – Der Bund Deutscher Mädel, Vol. I (Frankfurt/Main 1983), p. 225. See also Birgit Jürgens: Zur Geschichte des BDM 1923-1939(Frankfurt/Main 1994), p. 63 and Peter D. Stachura: Nazi Youth in the Weimar Republic (Santa Barbara 1975), p. 195, note 29.


Nisse.

[Helly Angel]

Erika Jordan until 1935, was claimed as Martyr of the Hitler Youth, from that year on, she was Honored as a Woman in the BDM. She was 17 at the time of her murder.

In her honor, her name was given to the BDM Higher School for Leaders in Berlin-Dahlem.

Best regards,