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{{Short description|German novelist and poet (1897–1979)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name             = Paul Alverdes
| image            =  Paul-alverdes01.jpg
| caption          = 
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1897|5|6}}
| birth_place      = [[Strasbourg]], [[German Empire]]
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|1979|2|28|1897|5|6}}
| death_place      = [[Munich]], West Germany
| occupation       = Novelist, poet, editor
| education        = 
| period           = 1922–1979
| genre            = [[War novel]], poetry, children's literature
| subject          = [[World War I]], camaraderie, youth movement
| movement         = [[German Youth Movement]]
| notable_works    = ''Die Pfeiferstube'' (The Whistler's Room)
| years_active     = 
}}

'''Paul Alverdes''' (6 May 1897, [[Strasbourg]] – 28 February 1979, [[Munich]]) was a German [[novelist]] and [[poet]].

The son of an officer and member of the [[German Youth Movement]], he volunteered for duty in [[World War I]] and received a severe injury to the throat.  After 1922 he was a freelance author in Munich, and from 1934 to 1944, along with [[Karl Benno von Mechow]], he edited and published the journal ''[[Das innere Reich]].''  Alverdes's work was influenced by the youth movement and by the World War I front experience, whose purifying and "transforming" power he praised.  Nonetheless, he was only moderately popular with National Socialists because he lacked an "activist-dynamic attitude".  After 1945 he mainly wrote stories for children.

==Works==
* ''Die Nördlichen'' (The Northerners; 1922)
* ''Die Pfeiferstube'' (The Whistler's Room; 1929)
* ''Reinhold oder die Verwandelten''
* ''Die Freiwilligen'' (The Volunteers; 1934)
* ''Das Winterlager''
* ''Eine Infanterie – Division bricht durch''
* ''Deutsches Andenkenbuch''
* ''Das Zwiegesicht''
* ''Dank und Dienst. Reden und Aufsätze''
* ''Märchen (Das Männlein Mittenzwei)'' (The Little In-Between Man; 1937)
* ''Grimmbarts Haus'' (Grimbart's House; 1949)
* ''Legende vom Christ-Esel'' (1953)
* ''Wenig Träum Pferde'' (1958) (Little Dream Horses)

==References==
* Furness, Raymond and Malcolm Humble (1991). "A Companion to Twentieth Century German Literature." London and New York: Routledge. {{ISBN|0-415-01987-7}}.
* Christian Zentner, Friedemann Bedürftig (1991). ''[[The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich]]''.  Macmillan, New York. {{ISBN|0-02-897502-2}}

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