Ludolf-Hermann Emmanuel Georg Kurt Werner von Alvensleben was a Schutzstaffel functionary of Nazi Germany. He held positions of SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and the Soviet Union, and was in
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Hitler Youth rally, Berlin Sportpalast, 13 February 1939: Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Baldur von Schirach, Artur Axmann; Alvensleben standing behind Himmler
Alvensleben as commander of Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz in Bydgoszcz, 1939
Graves of Ludolf von Alvensleben (left) and his wife Melitta Sophie von Guaita (right) in Santa Rosa de Calamuchita, Córdoba, Argentina.
The Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz was an ethnic-German self-protection militia, a paramilitary organization comprising ethnic Germans mobilized from among the German minority in Poland.
Ludolf von Alvensleben
…and commander of SS-District XXXIII in Schwerin on 1 July 1937. Alvensleben's 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. He told his men on 16 October 1939: You…
Selbstschutz leaders in Bydgoszcz at the time of the Bydgoszcz massacres of both Jewish and non-Jewish Poles (from left to right): SS-Standartenführer Ludolf Jakob von Alvensleben SS-Obersturmbannführer Erich Spaarmann, SS-Obersturmbannführer Hans Kölzow, and SS-Sturmbannführer Christian Schnug
Nazi Mayor of Bromberg Werner Kampe with Josef Meier and Ludolf von Alvensleben, leader of Selbstschutz in Pomerania, during inspection of Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz in 1939
Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz from Łobżenica