Axmann, Artur, born in Hagen
on 18-02-1913, the youngest of five brothers and sisters, of the Legal Adviser, Aloys Axmann and his wife Emma, born Frick. The young Axmann was a good student and received a scholarship to attend secondary school. In 1916 the family moved to Berlin-Wedding, where his father worked as an insurance clerk. After the death of his father, the mother must support the family alone. In November 1928 Axmann enters the age of 15 high school student in the Hitler Youth (HJ) and is the leader of the Hitler Youth in the Berlin district of Wedding, five years before Adolf Hitler (did you know)
(see William Hitler)
came to power in 1933. He studied law and in 1928, founded the first Hitler Youth group in Westphalia. He is active as a cell leader and as a speaker at the Nazi Students League
. Arthur distinguished himself in the eyes of Nazi superiors by organizing units of young workers modeled on early Communist labor union organizations, but with the task of seeking converts to National Socialism. Such was his success that, by 1932, he had been called to Berlin, Gauleiter, Joseph Goebbels
(did you know) to join the national leadership of the Hitler Youth, which was open to young Germans between the ages of 10 and 18. He is deputy of the Reich Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, Axmann served as a soldier on Germany’s Western front from 1939 to 1940 before Hitler appointed him leader of the Hitler Youth, succeeding Baldur von Schirach in 1940. It is a sign of how much Adolf Hitler trusted Axmann as it is known that Hitler believed that the future of Nazi Germany lay with its youth and anyone selected to lead its youth had to be held in the highest regard by the Fuehrer. Axmann obviously fitted this criterion. Axmann was the last living Nazi with a rank equivalent to Reichsführer.



























During his trial, Axmann told the court that he had heard the shot by which Hitler committed suicide. He also stated that he had attempted to escape from central Berlin along with Reichsleiter, Martin Bormann,







Death and burial ground of Axmann, Artur.





Arthur Axmann died unexpected, at the age of 83, on 24-04-1996 in Berlin and is buried with his wife Erna
on the Stadtfriedhof of Berlin Wilmersdorf.





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