Kurt Petter

{{Short description|German physician, youth leader and educational administrator (1909–1969)}}

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|birth_place = Dorndorf, Germany

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|10|03|1909|02|03|df=y}}

|death_place = Hamburg, Germany

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|party = National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)

|profession = Physician, youth leader, educational administrator

|office = Stabsführer of the Hitler Youth

|predecessor = Helmut Möckel

|successor = Office abolished

|spouse = Carin Lennman-Petter

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Kurt Petter (3 February 1909 – 3 October 1969) was a German physician, youth leader and educational administrator.

Petter was born in 1909, the son of Bernhard and Marie Petter. He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, University of Bonn and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.{{cite book|title=Die Akademie für Jugendführung der Hitlerjugend in Braunschweig|page=213|author=Jürgen Schultz|publisher=Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei und Verlag|year=1978|isbn=3-87884-011-X}} During his final exam period he was pediatrician to the Hitler Youth in Jena.

He was appointed Hitler Youth area leader for Weimar region in 1933.{{cite book|title=Nazi youth in the Weimar Republic|page=178|author=Peter D. Stachura|publisher=Clio Books|year=1975|isbn=0874361990 }} In 1939 he was appointed head of the Reichsführerschule in Potsdam. In January 1937 he served as an inspector-general of the Adolf Hitler Schools with the rank of Gebietsführer.{{cite book|title=Jenaplan-Pädagogik im Nationalsozialismus|page=565|author=Robert Döpp|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|year=2003|isbn=3825864960}}{{cite book|title=Hitler Youth, 1922-1945: An Illustrated History|url=https://archive.org/details/hitleryouthillus00lepa|url-access=limited|page=[https://archive.org/details/hitleryouthillus00lepa/page/n102 96]|author=Jean-Denis Lepage|publisher=McFarland|year=2009|isbn=978-0786452811}} On 20 April 1942 he was promoted to Obergebietsführer and served as Deputy to Artur Axmann and as head of the Adolf Hitler Schools.{{cite book|title=Hitler's Children: The Hitler Youth and the SS|page=[https://archive.org/details/hitlerschildren00gerh/page/141 141]|author=Gerhard Rempel|publisher=UNC Press Books|year=1989|isbn=0807842990|url=https://archive.org/details/hitlerschildren00gerh/page/141}} From February to May 1945, he was acting Stabsführer of the Hitler Youth following the death of Helmut Möckel.

He was also a senior physician advising on physical and nutritional requirements for former Hitler Youth joining the German Army.{{cite book|title=Spuren der Nibelungen 1945: die Kämpfe bei Bad Abbach und die Rettung von Regensburg: eine Dokumentation über Soldaten der 38. Grenadier-Division "Nibelungen" der Waffen-SS|page=94|author=Klaus Schneider|publisher=K. Vowinckel-Verlag|year=1999|isbn=3921655900}} During April and May 1945 he served as Regimental Medical Officer to the 96th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment, 38th SS Division Nibelungen of the Waffen-SS.

Petter was interned after the war and upon his release moved to Sweden. He married Carin Lennman (1912-1989), daughter of Lieutenant Henning Fredrik Gustaf Lennman (1879-1947) and Margarethe Lennman, geb. Eitze (1882-1965). Henning was son of Konteradmiral of the Royal Swedish Navy Fredrik Wilhelm Lennman (1840-1917) and Alice Lennman, geb. von Heidenstam (1850-1926).

He worked as a pediatrician in his own medical practice in Hamburg, Germany until his death in 1969 and is buried in Nättraby.{{cite web|url=http://www.lansstyrelsen.se/blekinge/SiteCollectionDocuments/sv/samhallsplanering-och-kulturmiljo/skyddad-bebyggelse/N_rappor.pdf|title=Nättraby kyrkogård|publisher=Länsstyrelserna}}