Peter Carstens (13 September 1903 in
Brunsbüttel
Brunsbüttel (; Northern Low Saxon: ''Bruunsbüddel'') 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 t ...
– January 1945 in
Poznań
Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...
) was a German geneticist and animal breeder and
SS-Oberführer for the
Nazi Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor ...
(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
The National Socialist Teachers League ( German: , NSLB), was established on 21 April 1929. Its original name was the Organization of National Socialist Educators. Its founder and first leader was former schoolteacher Hans Schemm, the Gauleiter ...
. He died in January 1945 during a battle.
Ernst Klee
Ernst Klee (15 March 1942, Frankfurt – 18 May 2013, Frankfurt) was a German journalist and author. As a writer on Germany's history, he was best known for his exposure and documentation of medical crimes in Nazi Germany, much of which was conce ...
: ''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.
See also
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List of Nazi Party members
A list of notable people who were at some point followers of the ideology of Nazism or affiliated with the Nazi Party. This is not meant to be a list of every person who was ever a member of the Nazi Party. This is a list of notable figures who ...
References
1903 births
1945 deaths
People from Brunsbüttel
German geneticists
Nazi Party politicians
Sturmabteilung personnel
SS-Oberführer
People from the Province of Schleswig-Holstein
20th-century German architects
German military personnel killed in World War II
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