Jens Ostrowski
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Hello everyone, I have thoroughly researched Alfred Nourney's activities in the Third Reich for my book - it is based on documents from the NSDAP archives, the family and the denazification file. Here is the translation.
When the National Socialists took power in Germany, Alfred was no opponent of the movement. His commitment went beyond voting for the NSDAP in the Reichstag elections in March 1933. In 1933 and 1934, Nourney served in the General SS with the rank of Unterscharführer. Three years later he joined the NSDAP in Düsseldorf. He was 45 years old then. At times he belonged to the NS organisations Deutsche Arbeitsfront, Volkswohlfahrt and the Reichsluftschutzbund. And all this under the impression of the persecution of his stepfather Arthur Wolff, who was now separated from his mother.
was deleted from the list of lawyers admitted to the Düsseldorf District and Regional Courts in July 1933. The Gestapo also showed particular interest in Wolff, who had made a name for himself defending communists in the 1920s. In the spring of 1925, for example, he appeared as defence counsel before the Reich Court in Leipzig in the "Cheka Trial", one of the most spectacular trials in the Weimar Republic. The communist underground organisation "Cheka" was accused of terrorist actions such as assassinations and bomb attacks. The pressure on Wolff became so great that he had to flee Germany. First via Switzerland to France, then during the war years via the Philippines to America.
Unlike his old schoolmate Rudolf Hess, Alfred Nourney remained a small fish overall despite everything.After the war, he was classified as a fellow traveller by the British occupation forces in the Rhineland.
When the National Socialists took power in Germany, Alfred was no opponent of the movement. His commitment went beyond voting for the NSDAP in the Reichstag elections in March 1933. In 1933 and 1934, Nourney served in the General SS with the rank of Unterscharführer. Three years later he joined the NSDAP in Düsseldorf. He was 45 years old then. At times he belonged to the NS organisations Deutsche Arbeitsfront, Volkswohlfahrt and the Reichsluftschutzbund. And all this under the impression of the persecution of his stepfather Arthur Wolff, who was now separated from his mother.
was deleted from the list of lawyers admitted to the Düsseldorf District and Regional Courts in July 1933. The Gestapo also showed particular interest in Wolff, who had made a name for himself defending communists in the 1920s. In the spring of 1925, for example, he appeared as defence counsel before the Reich Court in Leipzig in the "Cheka Trial", one of the most spectacular trials in the Weimar Republic. The communist underground organisation "Cheka" was accused of terrorist actions such as assassinations and bomb attacks. The pressure on Wolff became so great that he had to flee Germany. First via Switzerland to France, then during the war years via the Philippines to America.
Unlike his old schoolmate Rudolf Hess, Alfred Nourney remained a small fish overall despite everything.After the war, he was classified as a fellow traveller by the British occupation forces in the Rhineland.
