Hannes Stelzer

Hannes Stelzer (20 June 1910 – 27 December 1944) was an Austrian film actor. Stelzer was a leading actor in German cinema during the Nazi era.

Hannes Stelzer
Stelzer (centre), w. Marika Rökk, Georg Jacoby and Heli Finkenzeller (1938)
Born	20 June 1910 Graz, Styria, Austria-Hungary
Died	27 December 1944 (aged 34) Komárom, Hungary
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1936 – 1943 (film)

As well as appearing in dramas and light comedies, Stelzer also featured in more propagandistic works, including leading roles in the war films Stukas^[1] and The Crew of the Dora (1943), his final film.

During the Second World War Stelzer served in the German Air Force. In 1944 he was killed in a plane crash near Komáron, Hungary,^[2] possibly as the result of enemy action. By Reichskulturkammer, dated 27 January 1945, he was returning from mission during heavy snowstorm and hit the power lines. ^[3]

Stelzer married Johanna Weyand in 1935 and, after they divorced, the German actress Maria Bard in 1940, whom he remained married to until her death in 1944.

Selected filmography

• The Dreamer (1936)
• Truxa (1937)
• The Ruler (1937)
• Signal in the Night (1937)
• Travelling People (1938)
• A Hopeless Case (1939)
• New Year's Eve on Alexanderplatz (1939)
• Stukas (1941)
• Venus on Trial (1941)
• Above All Else in the World (1941)
• The Crew of the Dora (1943)