Ludolf von Alvensleben

For another SS ocer, see Ludolf Jakob von Al- ited from Alvenslebens grandfather, the Prussian general
vensleben.
Hermann von Alvensleben (18091887).
Ludolf-Hermann Emmanuel Georg Kurt Werner
Alvensleben enlisted in the Prussian cadet corps in 1911,
and in 1918 joined the 10th (Magdeburg) Hussars Regiment, but did not ght in World War I. He temporarily
served in a paramilitary Freikorps unit in 1920. Between
1923 and July 1929, he was a member of the nationalist
Stahlhelm organization.
After the First World War, Alvensleben graduated with
a degree in agronomy. Upon the death of his father in
December 1912, the familys manor at Schochwitz had
become his own. In 1923 he also rented Storkau manor
in the Altmark. He wed Melitta von Guaita on May 3,
1924; the marriage produced four children. He also later
fathered a natural son raised as a Lebensborn child.

1.2 Nazi career

Ludolf von Alvensleben

von Alvensleben (March 17, 1901 March 17, 1970)

was a Nazi ocial in the rank of SS-Gruppenfhrer and
General Lieutenant of the Police and Waen-SS. His familiar name was Bubi (Little Boy).

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Hitler Youth rally, Berlin Sportpalast, February 13, 1939:

Reichsfrauenfhrerin Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Reichsfhrer-SS
Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Reichsjugendfhrer Baldur von
Schirach, HJ-Obergebietsfhrer Artur Axmann; SS-Oberfhrer
Ludolf von Alvensleben standing behind Himmler

Biography
Background

Alvensleben joined the Nazi Party and SA in 1929, he

soon became head of the local branch in Eisleben and
chief district ocial in Mansfeld Land. From July 1931
he chaired the motorized corps of the SA in the Gau of
Halle-Merseburg. Alvensleben left the SA in 1932; at
that time he was heavily indebted and had a considerable
criminal record on charges which included libel and road
trac oence.

Alvensleben was born in Halle in the Prussian Province

of Saxony into the noble family von Alvensleben. His father was Prussian Major General Ludolf von Alvensleben
(18441912), his mother Antoinette von Alvensleben
(18701950), ne Freiin von Ricou. His mother was the
widow of Adolf Freiherr von Almey, by whom she had
two children: Gerhard Freiherr von Almey and MariaLouise Grn von Burgund. Ludolfs father had already
retired from active service to administer the familys
manor around Schochwitz castle, which had been inher-

After the Nazi Machtergreifung, he and Nazi Gauleiter

Rudolf Jordan on February 12, 1933 organized a vio1

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lent attack of SA and SS paramilitaries on Communist

ocials in Eisleben, whereby three men were killed and
many others injured, an event later known as Eisleben
Bloody Sunday. In March 1933 Alvensleben became a
member of the provincial diet and of the Prussian Landtag, from November 12, 1933 he also was a member of
the Reichstag.

ment. On May 23, 1940 he was promoted to the rank of

Hauptsturmfhrer in the Waen-SS. From February 1941
he was in service of the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt, assumed the SS and Police Leader command in Chernigov
on 22 October 1941 and of Simferopol in Crimea on
November 19. From October 6, 1943 he held this position in Nikolaev in the rank of Major General, ocially
On April 5, 1934, he joined the SS and became assigned to Army Group A; his tenure was accompanied
by irregularities and further mass executions.
commander of the 46th Regiment in Dresden in the
rank of Obersturmbannfhrer. On August 22, 1934 On February 19, 1944 he succeeded Udo von Woyrsch
Alvensleben received a reprimand by Reichsfhrer-SS as Higher SS and Police Leader in Dresden. He took the
Heinrich Himmler in order for having insulted a woman occasion to take action against his creditors, such as Carl
in Leipzig in April. From October 1, 1935 he assumed Wentzel who was denounced after the 20 July Plot, arthe leadership of the 26th SS-Regiment in his hometown rested and executed, whereafter Alvensleben was able to
Halle. His advancement continued, when he became release his heavily indebted manor in Schochwitz. In the
commander of SS-District X in Stuttgart on Septem- late days of the war, he left Dresden and ed to the West.
ber 20, 1936 and commander of SS-District XXXIII in
Schwerin on July 1, 1937. He achieved the rank of
Standartenfhrer on April 20, 1936 and Oberfhrer on 1.4 Post-war ight
January 30, 1937. He was appointed First Adjutant of
In April 1945, Alvensleben was captured and held in
the Reichsfhrer-SS on November 14, 1938.
British captivity. At the end of 1945, he made an escape
from the internment camp at Neuengamme. After a short
stay in Schochwitz, he ed with his family to Argentina
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in early 1946. Although there is no precise data on the
date of their arrival in the country, a 2000 documentary
lm records that on November 27, 1952, the government
of Juan Domingo Pern granted Alvensleben citizenship
under the name of Carlos Lcke. He lived until July 1956
in Buenos Aires and then moved to Santa Rosa de Calamuchita. From November 1952, he served as inspector
of sh farming.

Ludolf von Alvensleben as Fhrer of Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz

in Bydgoszcz, 1939

Alvenslebens career continued after the 1939 Invasion of

Poland as commander of the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz
(German Self-Defense) organization in what was to
become the newly established Reichsgau Danzig-West
Prussia. The Selbstschutz paramilitary forces, formed
by members of the German minority in Poland and
led by SS ocials, performed mass executions during the Intelligenzaktion Pommern in the "Fordon Valley of Death", the Massacres in Pianica,[1] and other
atrocities.[2] In a letter to Himmler, Alvensleben complained about scrupulous Wehrmacht ocers too weak to
take drastic measures. In 1939 he conscated the Jewishowned manors of Rucewo and Rucewko in Reichsgau
Wartheland.
In December 1939 Alvensleben was appointed memberof-sta at the command of Hherer SS- und Polizeifhrer
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krger in Krakw, General Govern-

In January 1964, the district court of Munich put out an

arrest warrant for Alvensleben for the killing of at least
4,247 people in Poland by units of the Selbstschutz under von Alvenslebens command in the autumn of 1939.
Attempts by the prosecution had no consequences for
Alvensleben and he died in 1970 without having been
brought to trial.

2 References
[1] Grzegorz Popawski, Pianica pomorski Katy" " (Pianica Pomeranian Katyn) Dziennik Baltycki (The Baltic
Daily). Retrieved June 7, 2014.
[2] Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polands holocaust: ethnic strife,
collaboration with occupying forces and genocide in the
Second Republic, 1918-1947 McFarland, 1998. ISBN
0786403713.

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