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Alvensleben(-Schochwitz), Ludolf-Hermann Emmanuel Georg Kurt Werner von (�Bubi�)
SS-Gruppenf�hrer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und der Polizei


Born: 17.03.1901 in Schochwitz / Halle-an-der-Saale.
Died: 17.03.1970 in Santa Rosa de Calamuchita, Province of Cordoba, Argentina (lung cancer).

NSDAP-Nr.: 149 345 (Joined 01.08.1929)
SS-Nr.: 177 002 (Joined 05.04.1934)

Promotions:
00.00.1918 Fahnenjunker
00.07.1931 SA-Standartenf�hrer
05.04.1934 SS-Anw�rter
05.04.1934 SS-Obersturmbannf�hrer
26.06.1935 Unteroffizier d. R.
00.00.1936 Feldwebel d. R.
20.04.1936 SS-Standartenf�hrer
30.01.1937 SS-Oberf�hrer
01.10.1937 Leutnant d. R.
25.04.1940 SS-Obersturmf�hrer d. R. der Waffen-SS
23.05.1940 SS-Hauptsturmf�hrer d. R. der Waffen-SS
07.09.1940 SS-Brigadef�hrer (mit Wirkung vom 01.08.1940)
07.01.1942 Generalmajor der Polizei (mit Wirkung vom 01.01.1942)
09.11.1943 SS-Gruppenf�hrer und Generalleutnant der Polizei
01.07.1944 Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS

Career:
ca. 1906 � 00.00.1911 Privately schooled at home.
00.00.1911 � 00.00.1918 Member of the Prussian Army Kadettenkorps.
00.12.1912 With the death of his father, inherited the von Alvensleben family estate of Schochwitz, which his family had leased since 1849.
00.00.1918 � 00.00.1919 Entered service as Fahnenjunker, assigned to (magdeburgische) Husaren-Regiment Nr. 10 (no frontline service).
00.00.1920 6 weeks� Freikorps service with the Freiwilliges Landesj�gerkorps �Maercker� in Halle.
00.00.1923 � 00.00.1928 Tenant of the estate Storkau (Altmark).
00.00.1923 � 00.07.1929 Member of the Stahlhelm-Bund.
00.00.1928 � 00.00.19__ Owner of the estate Schochwitz bei Halle.
01.08.1929 Joined the NSDAP and SA.
01.08.1929 � 00.00.1930 Ortsgruppenleiter of the NSDAP in Eisleben.
00.00.1929 � 00.00.1934 Parteiredner (NSDAP speaker).
01.08.1929 � 00.00.1930 Ortsgruppenleiter of the NSDAP in Eisleben.
01.02.1929 - 25.03.1934 Kreisleiter of the NSDAP in the Mansfelder Seekreis (Seat: Eisleben).
00.00.1930 � 00.00.1933 Editor of the NSDAP information sheet �Der Mansfelder� in Eisleben.
21.08.1930 Sentenced to 2 days� jail and fined 20 Reichsmark for a traffic offense.
00.00.1931 Fined 200 Reichsmark for slander directed against the Social Democratic Landrat Koch of Eisleben. He was sentenced a total of 11 times for political offenses during this period, serving a number of jail terms in Eisleben.
[early-1930�s] Injured three times (in the chest, skull, and shoulder) during street fighting with communists.
00.07.1931 � 00.02.1932 Founder and Oberstaffelf�hrer of the Motor-SA for SA-Untergruppe Halle-Merseburg in SA-Gruppe Mitte, Gau Halle-Merseburg. Succeeded by Georg Ganditz.
00.02.1932 Left the SA.
24.04.1932 Unsuccessful candidate for election to the Preussischen Landtag (Prussian State Legislature) (Wahlkreis 11, Merseburg).
00.00.1933 - 25.03.1934 Gauinspekteur West of NSDAP Gau Halle-Merseburg. 00.02.1933 - 31.05.1933 Acting Landrat in Eisleben.
12.02.1933 Together with Gauleiter Rudolf Jordan and the Eisleben SS leader Hermann Florstedt, played a key role in the �Eisleber Blutsonntag� (Eisleben Bloody Sunday), which resulted in the murder of several communists.
05.03.1933 - 14.10.1933 Member of the Preussischen Landtag (representing Wahlkreis 11, Merseburg).
00.03.1933 � 00.04.1934 Member of the Kreistag (District Legislature) and the Kreisausschuss (District Committee) for Eisleben.
00.04.1933 � 00.00.193_ 1.Kreisdeputierter (First District Deputy) of the Mansfelder Seekreises.
00.04.1933 � 00.04.1934 Member of the Provinziallandtag (Provincial Legislature) of Provinz Sachsen.
01.06.1933 - 8.06.1933 Temporary Leiter of the Landratsamt (State Councilor�s Office) for Eisleben.
08.06.1933 � 00.00.1935 Deputy Leiter of the Landratsamt for Eisleben.
12.11.1933 - 08.05.1945 Member of the Reichstag (Wahlkreis 11, Merseburg until 10.04.1938, then Wahlkreis 31, W�rttemberg).
05.04.1934 - 05.04.1934 Joined the SS, assigned to 7.SS-Standarte (Base: Plauen / Sachsen).
05.04.1934 - 30.09.1935 F�hrer (m.d.F.b.) of 46.SS-Standarte (Base: Dresden / Sachsen). Succeeded Heinz Roch. Succeeded by Robert Braun.
22.08.1934 By order of the Reichsf�hrer-SS dated 20.08.1934 (Ref III/G/404), given a strong formal reprimand for assaulting, along with his SS comrade Otto Hofmann, the wife of a Leipzig nightclub owner on the night of 22./23.04.1934.
06.02.1935 - 14.11.1938 Adjutant to the Reichssportf�hrer (Reich Sport Leader) Hans von Tschammer und Osten.
26.06.1935 - 07.08.1935 Reserve training with MG.-Kompanie / II.Bataillon / Infanterie-Regiment 10 (Base: Dresden).
27.08.1935 - 26.09.1935 Reserve training with MG.-Kompanie / II.Bataillon / Infanterie-Regiment 10 (Base: Dresden).
20.05.1936 - 30.06.1936 Reserve training with I.Bataillon / Infanterie-Regiment 53 (Base: Weissenfels)(26.SS-Standarte was temporary headed by Walter Eisfeld during this period).
00.09.1936 � 00.09.1936 �F�hrer des Standartenblocks� (Leader of Regimental Formations) for the 1936 NSDAP Reichsparteitag in N�rnberg, serving under the F�hrer of the Aufmarschstab (Staff responsible for the ceremonial SS march at the rally), Rudolf Lohse.
20.09.1936 - 01.07.1938 F�hrer (m.d.F.b. until 30.01.1937, then in permanent command) of SS-Abschnitt X (HQ: Stuttgart). Succeeded Erasmus Freiherr von Malsen-Ponickau. Succeeded by Hermann Peter.
00.00.193_ - 00.00.19__ Member of the Ehrenrat (Honorary Council) of the Landesj�germeister (State Master of the Hunt) in W�rttemberg, Dr. Karl Pfannenschwarz.
00.00.1937 � 00.00.1938 Under medical treatment for a respiratory infection causing dizziness, exhaustion, and nervous problems (report from Dr. E. Hassenkamp at Dr. Budingen�s Sanitorium in Konstanzer Hof to Karl Wolff, 28.02.1938).
00.00.1937 � 00.04.1945 �P�chter der Jagd� (Lessor of Hunting Rights) in the town-owned forest of Barth.
01.10.1937 Commissioned as a reserve officer in Infanterie-Regiment 119. [01.12.1937] � 00.00.1945 Member of the Lebensborn Society.
05.03.1938 - 03.04.1938 On special leave for health reasons.
01.07.1938 - 14.11.1938 F�hrer of SS-Abschnitt XXXIII (HQ: Schwerin-Meckelmolch). Succeeded Rudolf Lohse. Succeeded by Waldemar Wappenhans.
00.08.1938 � 00.00.19__ Advisor for special assignments to the �Salzdetfurth-Konzern�, �Kali-Werke�, and �Mansfeld AG und Eisenh�tten� (with 1000 RM monthly salary).
14.11.1938 � 09.10.1939 Assigned to Pers�nlichen Stab RFSS as 1.Adjutant to the Reichsf�hrer-SS. Succeeded Karl Wolff.
25.11.1938 � 31.01.1941 �Chefadjutant des Reichsf�hrers-SS� (Chief Adjutant to Heinrich Himmler). Succeeded by Werner Grothmann.
08.06.1939 - 31.01.1941 Leiter of the �Hauptabteilung SS Adjutant der Reichsf�hrer-SS� in Hauptamt Pers�nlicher Stabes des Reichsf�hrers-SS. Succeeded by Werner Grothmann.
13.09.1939 - 01.12.1939 Attached as SS-F�hrer to the �Befehlshaber der Ordnungspolizei� in area of Armeeoberkommando 4 . Succeeded Walter Langleist and remained in this post until its disbandment.
03.09.1939 � 20.11.1939 F�hrer of the �Volksdeutschen Selbstschutzes� (Ethnic German Self-Defense units) in Danzig-Westpreussen. On one occasion, during a visit by the Reichsf�hrer-SS, von Alvensleben personally supervised the execution of 20 alleged Polish saboteurs near Bromberg; he personally finished off a wounded victim with his pistol. One of his relatives, Graf von Alvensleben-Schoneborn, married a Pole and was friendly with Polish nationalists and Jews, allowing his son to be tutored by a Jew. Von Alvensleben, a fervent believer that Germans who had �betrayed their race� should be eliminated, shot this relative and reported the episode to Karl Wolff on 12.12.1939. The following is excerpted from Heinz H�hne�s The Order of the Death�s Head:

�[Von Alvensleben] was a fanatical National-Socialist and in his area he instituted a regime of tyranny reminiscent of that to which the democrats and republicans had been subjected by the SA thugs of the [SA-Gruppenf�hrer] Karl Ernst school with their �wildcat� concentration camps. Von Alvensleben was master of life and death in his region. Mere denunciation by a German or a tiny tick on a list were enough for his men to appear and cart some Pole off to a cellar, a garage or a copse and murder him.�

07.10.1939 Reported to Kurt Daluege that his Selbstschutz numbered 17,667 men and had killed 4,247 Poles by 05.10.1939.
03.11.1939 � 00.04.1945 Wirtschaftsf�hrer (Economic Director) of the estate �Gross-Eichenbarleben� in Reichsgau Wartheland.
00.11.1939 � 00.12.1939 Assigned to Lublin to set up a Sonderdienst (Special Service) from the Ausbildungszentrale (Central Training Office) which was the only element remaining from his dissolved Selbstschutz command.
00.12.1939 � 00.12.1940 Attached to the Stab �H�herer SS- und Polizeif�hrer Ost�, Friedrich-Wilhelm Kr�ger (HQ: Krakow).
25.04.1940 - 01.08.1940 Assigned as reserve officer to SS-Regiment �Germania� / SS-V-Division. Served in France during the Western Campaign.
01.08.1940 Released from Waffen-SS service due to illness and relinquished his Waffen-SS rank.
01.08.1940 - 19.02.1944 Assigned to the Pers�nlichen Stab RFSS.
15.02.1941 - 15.04.1941 Temporarily attached for instruction in police duties to the Hauptamt Ordnungspolizei.
16.04.1941 - 15.05.1941 Temporarily attached for instruction to the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and Gestapo.
22.10.1941 - 09.11.1941 �SS- und Polizeif�hrer in Generalbezirk Tschernigow.� First holder of this post. Succeeded by Willy Schmelcher.
09.11.1941 - 06.10.1943 �SS- und Polizei-Standortf�hrer in Simferopol.� First holder of this post. Succeeded by Heinz Roch.
06.12.1941 - 19.02.1944 �SS- und Polizeif�hrer in Generalbezirk Taurien-Krim� (HQ: Simferopol). First holder of this post. Succeeded by Heinz Roch. A report from von Alvensleben as SSPF in the Crimea, dated 19.04.1943, provides details of antipartisan operations conducted by his forces from 03.09.1942 to 18.04.1943. During that period, direct fighting took place on no less that 52 separate occasions, with the following results: 3,111 partisans eliminated by various means and a large quantity of arms and supplies captured.
* 1 German killed / 14 wounded
* 31 Romanians killed / 64 wounded
* 6 Tartars killed / 22 wounded

06.10.1943 - 11.02.1944 �SS- und Polizeif�hrer in Generalbezirk Nikolajew.� Ill during this period, and it is likely that he did not actually serve in this assignment. Post actually run by Paul Zimmermann until 10.10.1943, then by Rudolf Weiss who was the last holder of the post.
10.10.1943 - 11.02.1944 Out of service due to illness (dysentary, diptheria, and polyneuritis which he contracted in southern Russia); hospitalized at the SS-Lazarett in Hohenlychen from 01.11.1943, then sent to the Medical Clinic in Dresden under the care of Dr. med. Fritz Lange.
22.10.1943 � 19.02.1944 �H�herer SS- und Polizeif�hrer Schwarzes Meer� (HQ: Nikolajew) in area of Heeresgruppe A. First holder of this post which was formed from the �SS- und Polizeif�hrer Nikolajew� and he officially ran the two posts concurrently, though was hospitalized during this period. The HSSPF post was under the control of the �H�chster SS- und Polizeif�hrer Ukraine� (Hans-Adolf Pr�tzmann). Von Alvensleben was succeeded in this HSSPF post by Richard Hildebrandt.
19.02.1944 � 00.04.1945 F�hrer of SS-Oberabschnitt �Elbe� and �H�herer SS- und Polizeif�hrer Elbe in den Gauen Halle-Merseburg, Sachsen und im Wehrkreis IV� (HQ: Dresden); also Gerichtsherr (Judge) of the SS- und Polizeigericht V. Succeeded Udo von Woyrsch.
01.10.1944 � 00.04.1945 �H�here Kommandeur der Kriegsgefangenen� (Senior Commander of Prisoners of War) in Wehrkreis IV.

Postwar Confinement and Escape:
Arrested by British authorities, 05.1945. He was interned at the former Neuengamme concentration camp from which he escaped on 11.09.1946 by being smuggled out in a milk tanker (according to information provided by Karl Wolff on 27.11.1980). Briefly lived in Schochwitz until, with assistance from the Evangelical Church, he fled with his family to South America. He arrived in Buenos Aires in 1949 and lived there under the alias �Carlos Luecke.� Granted Argentinean citizenship on 15.09.1952, he lived in Buenos Aires (address: CC 22, 5194 Villa General Belgrano, Sierra Calamuchita, Argentina) until 07.1956. He then moved to Santa Rosa de Calamuchita where he lived on a lavish estate and worked as an inspector for the fish hatchery at Lake Herrero. A friend of Argentinean dictator Juan Peron, von Alvensleben / Luecke eventually rose to become head of the Argentine Department for Fishing, Hunting, and Yachting for the area R10111. He was also President of the soccer club �Clubo Atletico Union.� Sentenced to death in absentia by a Polish court in Torun after the war, he was later charged by the Amtsgericht M�nchen, on 31.01.1964, with the murder of at least 4,247 Poles as commander of the Selbstschutz in West Prussia.

Decorations & Awards:
00.00.194_ 1939 Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse
03.02.1943 Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern (with effect from 01.09.1942; award document signed by General der Infanterie Franz Mattenklott, Kommandierender General of XXXXII.Armee-Korps in the Crimea)
00.06.1940 Kriegsverdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern
01.06.1943 Krimschild
ca. 1942 Medaille �Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42�
ca. 1939 Medaille zur Erinnerung an die Heimkehr des Memellandes
ca. 1939 Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938
ca. 1938 Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. M�rz 1938
26.11.1939 Danzig Kreuz I. Klasse
30.01.1938 Goldenes Ehrenzeichen der NSDAP
12.11.1933 Traditions-Gau-Abzeichen (�Ehrenzeichen 1925� des Gaues Halle-Merseburg der NSDAP)
00.00.194_ Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP in Silber
00.00.194_ Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP in Bronze
[01.12.1937] Deutsches Reichssportabzeichen in Silber
00.00.193_ SA-Sportabzeichen in Silber
[01.12.1937] SA-Sportabzeichen in Bronze
00.00.193_ Deutsches Reitersportabzeichen in Bronze
[01.12.1937] Ehrendegen des Reichsf�hrers-SS
[01.12.1937] Totenkopfring der SS
00.00.193_ SS-Zivilabzeichen (Nr. 64 820)
16.12.1935 Julleuchter der SS
00.02.1934 Ehrenwinkel f�r alte K�mpfer
00.07.1943 Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Romania with Swords 17.12.1942 Order of the Crown of Romania 2nd & 3rd Class (presented by General Manoliu, Commander of the Romanian 4th Mountain Division)
22.01.1943 Crusade Against Communism Medal (Romania)
03.03.1943 Officer Cross of the Civil Merit Order (Bulgaria)

Notes:
* Son of the estate owner and Prussian Generalmajor Ludolf von Alvensleben (born in Potsdam, 11.11.1844 / died in Halle an der Saale, 08.12.1912) and his wife Antoinette, n�e Freiin von Ricou (born in Darmstadt, 30.12.1870 / died in Halle an der Saale, 23.05.1950). One of his ancestors had been Adjutant-General to the Prussian Army.
* Married on 03.05.1924 to Melitta von Guaita (born 17.04.1905 in Demmin / Preussen; NSDAP-Nr. 963 000). Two sons (born 02.09.1942 and 24.05.1944) and two daughters (born 17.02.1925 and 02.03.1934).
* In a fitness report of 22.03.1935, Hans D�ring wrote that von Alvensleben was energetic, practical, and very intelligent, and Karl Freiherr von Eberstein concurred with this assessment. Rudolf Lohse stated that von Alvensleben performed his light duties at the 1936 Reich Party Day with energy and ability. A report dated 15.06.1938 and signed by Kurt Kaul stated that von Alvensleben was very smart and sure of himself, egotistical and very independent. It went on to state that he gave of himself unconditionally in all tasks allotted to him and was very correct in all official matters. Emil Mazuw, in a fitness report dated 17.11.1938, gave a similar assessment.