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Abgeordneter Werner Altendorf (* November 24th, 1906 in Neuruppin - † May 3rd, 1945 in Bad Kleinen) was a German HJ-Obergebietsführer and Politician in the Hitlerjugend and NSDAP during World War II.

Life and work
After the Abitur at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Neuruppin Altendorf studied from 1925 law at the universities of Jena, Berlin and Breslau, but broke his studies in 1930 without leaving age. From December 1929 to July 1930 he was squad leader in the NS Student Association Breslau.

As of December 1929 Altendorf belonged to the Hitler Youth at (HJ) and joined the NSDAP on 1 March 1930. From July to December 1930, he appeared as a speaker at the district NSDAP in mid-northern Silesia. In December 1930 he became a full-time Hitler Youth leader. Among other things, he took over in April 1931, the leadership of the Hitler Youth group Silesia and also the Hitler Youth Group Centre in Wroclaw, in which the HJ-districts of Saxony, Thuringia, Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt were united. In November 1931, he became the leader of the HJ-Silesia region with the clans of Wroclaw, Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia and also took over the leadership of the HJ-nome of Upper Silesia. From 1932 to November 1934, he was the leader of the HJ-Silesia region in Wrocław and at the same time Reserve Young People's Officer of the HJ-field leadership. From December 1934 to November 1942, he was the leader of the HJ-Mecklenburg area in bath small or Schwerin. He has held since April 1942 rank of HJ-Region Guide.

From September 1939 Altendorf participated in the Second World War in part. It was in May 1940 to Sergeant promoted and retired in March 1941 as a lieutenant severely wounded from the war service of. He was in November 1942 Reich Youth Leadership offset and appointed Inspector of the Reich Youth Leader for the HJ-country service. In November 1943, commanded him to the main Cultural Office of the Reich Propaganda Directorate, where he focused on the request of the Office conductor Karl Cerff should take care as Reichsamtsleiter to young artists. As this from Reich Treasurer was not approved, Altendorf was of the Party Chancellery adopted in October 1944 as a district leader of the NSDAP in the NSDAP Gauleiter after Katowice offset.

Altendorf was in 1933 for a few months a member of the Prussian Landtag. From November 1933 until the end of the Nazi regime in the spring of 1945 Altendorf sitting as a deputy in the Nazi Reichstag.

Altendorf worked as a writer and songwriter. He was a renowned poet HJ and is considered the inventor of Adolf Hitler's march of the German Youth (1934), which was adopted as a "confession march of the German youth" for the entire kingdom. His literary works include his most popular songs, poems and amateur theater for the Sturmabteilung (SA) and for the Hitler Youth.

On 3 May 1945, shortly before the end of the Second World War, Altendorf took in bath small or American internment camp Dachau life.