Jürgen Ohlsen

Jürgen Ohlsen (15 March 1917 – 23 September 1994) was a German actor 
best remembered for portraying "Heini "Quex" Völker" in the 1933  Nazi propaganda
film Hitlerjunge Quex (Our Flag Leads Us Forward).

Career
Ohlsen was born in Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany on 15 March 1917. Due to the illness of actor Hermann Braun, Ohlsen inherited the uncredited role of Heini Völker (nicknamed 'Quex') in Hitlerjunge Quex (Our Flag Leads Us Forward, 1933). Units of the Berlin Hitler Youth also joined the cast of the film. Ohlsen later took the role of a supporter of aviator Ernst Udet in Heinz Paul's Wunder des Fliegens (Wonder of Flying. 1935).

Ohlsen joined the Hitler Youth in 1934 when the Nazis dissolved Berlin's Der Jungenbund Südlegion , of which he was a member.  He appears not to have taken the Party's anti-Semitic position seriously for he was disciplined for repeatedly playing tennis with a Jew. Ohlsen was alleged to be gay and by at least the fall of 1938, following the release of Hitlerjunge Quex, the verb "quexen" (literally "to quex") had entered the Hitler Youth vocabulary as a euphemism for gay sex. It was said that Ohlsen was the lover of Baldur von Schirach, the Reichsjugendführer (Reich Youth Führer), leader of the Hitler Youth. Von Schirach was replaced in 1940 by Artur Axmann, perhaps in part due to these allegations.

Later years and death
No longer the cherubic man-child of his Quex years, by 1940 Ohlsen had disappeared from the public eye. According to a report by the Osnabrück Gestapo, Ohlsen was supposed to be sent to a concentration camp during 1940 or 1941 where he was to be killed. On 23 September 1994, Ohlsen died at the age of 77 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Filmography
 Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend also known as Our Flag Leads Us Forward. (1933; 95 mins.) Directed by Hans Steinhoff.  Ohlsen played the starring role of Heini Völker.  Title translation:  Hitler Youth Quex. A Film of the Sacrifice of German Youth.
 Alle Macht mit (1933; 6 mins)  Directed by Franz Wenzler 
 Wunder des Fliegens: Der Film eines deutschen Fliegers (1935; 79 mins.) Directed by Heinz Paul  Ohlsen played the role of Heinz Muthesius.  German ace Ernst Udet starred int this film.

References

Sources
Baird, Jay W. (1992). To Die for Germany: Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon. Indiana University Press.a .
 Buscher, Paulus (1998) Das Stigma. Koblenz 
 Chiari, Bernhard, Matthias Rogg, and Wolfgang Schmidt, eds. Krieg und Militär im Film des 20. Jahrhunderts. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2003.  
 
 "Perfect Youth: Irks Nazis By Associating With Jew."  New York Times, August 23, 1935, p. 9. (Subscription only)
Rentschler, Eric (1993) Emotional engineering: Hitler youth Quex. Center for German and European Studies, University of California,
 Rentschler, Eric (1996)  The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 
 Steinwascher, Gerd, ed. Gestapo  Osnabrück meldet--: Polizei- und Regierungsberichte aus dem Regierungsbezirk Osnabrück aus den Jahren 1933 bis 1936. Osnabrück, Germany: Selbstverlag des Vereins für Geschichte und Landeskunde von Osnabrück, 1995, p. 267, Entry No. 29. 
 Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 95.

External links 
 
 Jürgen Ohlsen at Filmportal.de
 
 
 
 
 
 Wunder des Fliegens: Der Film eines deutschen Fliegers Legal Full Movie Download

Category:1917 births
Category:1994 deaths
Category:20th-century German male actors
Category:Burials in Germany
Category:German male child actors
Category:German male film actors
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Category:Male actors from Berlin
Category:Nazi propagandists
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Category:West German people