Edmund Paul Neumayer

Edmund Paul Neumayer (around 1933)

Edmund Paul Neumayer, (born August 8, 1908 in Munich ; † July 1, 1934 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a German SA member. He became known as one of the victims of the Nazi government's wave of cleansing , known as the Röhm Putsch , in the summer of 1934.

Life and murder

Neumayer was a son of Aloys Neumayer and his wife Franziska, nee Hofmann. He attended elementary school and high school for three years. He then learned the trade of hairdresser .

On November 15, 1932, Neumayer joined the NSDAP (membership number 1,264,326). He had been a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party's street combat organization, since May 14, 1932. In 1933 Neumayer switched to the SS, in which he was promoted to SS-Sturmmann with effect from November 1, 1933 according to Führer's order No. 19 of November 9, 1933. Later, however, he must have returned to the SA.

On April 1, 1934 Neumayer was transferred to the staff of the Supreme SA leadership . On April 14, 1934, he received the rank of SA Rottenführer.

From the end of June 1934 Neumayer stayed as a member of the personal entourage of the SA chief of staff, Ernst Röhm , in the Hanselbauer guesthouse in Bad Wiessee , where Röhm was on a cure that month and where an SA leaders' meeting was held for June 30, 1934 Participation of Adolf Hitler as the highest chief of the SA was scheduled. When Hitler unexpectedly entered the Pension Hanselbauer with an SS and police detachment in the early morning hours of June 30th and had Röhm and the other SA members arrested, Neumayer was among those arrested. The background to this action was the violent disempowerment of the SA, decided by Hitler shortly before, which was carried out on June 30 and July 1 as part of a general wave of political purges, which was justified to the public with the propaganda claim that one was one of Röhm and his Faithful planned putsch ("Röhm-Putsch") was forestalled at the last minute by a saving act by the state emergency service.

Like the rest of those arrested, Neumayer was first taken to the Stadelheim prison in Munich, where he stayed until the early evening of July 1, 1934. After Röhm was shot in his cell by the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp, Theodor Eicke and his deputy Michel Lippert , these two Neumayer and three other prisoners who had been arrested in Wiessee ( Erich Schiewek , Hans Schweighart and Max Vogel ) took with them to Dachau. There, in the evening hours of July 1st, the four were shot by an SS commando in front of a large number of concentration camp prisoners who were forced to attend the spectacle.

Posthumously, Neumayer was expelled from the SA under an ordinance of July 18, 1934, with dismissal from his rank and position. On October 31, the Fuehrer Order No. 26 was finally published. a. also announced the expulsion of Neumayer (erroneously written Neumeier) from the SA with effect from July 1st.

literature

• Wolfram Selig : The victims of the "Röhm Putsch" in Munich , in: Werner Becker / Werner Chroback (ed.): State, culture, politics. Contributions to the history of Bavaria and Catholicism. Festschrift for Dieter Albrecht's 65th birthday , Kallmütz, pp. 341–356.
• Stanislav Zámečník : That was Dachau (= Fischer pocket book 17228: The time of National Socialism). Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-17228-3 (Original title: To bylo Dachau . Translated by Peter Heumos and Gitta Grossmann, first edition: 2002).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max Domarus [Ed.]: Hitler. Speeches and Proclamations, 1932–1945 , half-vol. 1, p. 409.