page_title: Christian Frederik von Schalburg
section_title: After his death
hierarchical_section_title: Christian Frederik von Schalburg / After his death
caption_attribution_description: English: Video still image number 11178 of 14239, at 07:30. See also File&#x3a;&#32;Waffen-SS memorial and raw footage (Denmark, 1944).ogv Dansk: Schalburg-skolens (Høveltegårds) haves mindehøj for danske, faldne SS-mænd set fra side med 1 kampesten med SS-Dannebrog og civile. To af højens hvide mindetavler er synlige. Film stillbillede nummer 11178 af 14239, ved 07:30. Se også File&#x3a;&#32;Waffen-SS memorial and raw footage (Denmark, 1944).ogv
context_page_description: Christian Frederik von Schalburg was a Danish army officer, the second commander of Free Corps Denmark and brother of Vera Schalburg.
context_section_description: On 3 June 1942, von Schalburg's body was transported in a coffin draped in Dannebrog to the cemetery of the corps located in the small village Biakovo in the Demjansk area. The commanding officer of the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf SS-Brigadeführer Hellmuth Becker spoke at the funeral.
  On the same day Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler posthumously promoted von Schalburg to SS-Obersturmbannführer, effective from 1 June.
  In Denmark the newspaper of the DNSAP 'Fædrelandet' (the Fatherland) filled the front page with the news of the fallen commander, while a memorial service for von Schalburg was disrupted by protests shouted by a student. The poet Valdemar Rørdam who had already gotten himself into public scandal with a poem praising Hitler, further alienated himself from the Danish public when he published a tribute to Schalburg.
  A Danish medal, the Schalburg Cross and the Danish Germanic-SS Schalburg Corps, was named after von Schalburg. His widow called herself Valet de chambre (Kammerjunkerinde) Helle von Schalburg and founded Schalburgs mindefond (memorial fund), which sent packages to Danish SS volunteers on the Eastern Front.
  On the second anniversary of von Schalburg's death commander of the Schalburg Corps K. B. Martinsen inaugurated a memorial for fallen, Danish members of the SS. Following the liberation the memorial was destroyed.
  The fact that von Schalburg advanced (against the advice of a company commander) towards the front line and jeopardized not only his own life but that of his corps made him a reckless commander in some eyes. However his record indicates that he was a competent commander and in the SS this behaviour was not uncommon and that the losses of commanders in the SS were exceptionally high, including von Schalburg's successor who fell just two days after arriving at the corps.
caption: From the inauguration of the memorial for fallen, Danish members of the SS on the second anniversary of von Schalburg's death
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