Edmund Schneider (putschist)
Edmund Schneider (born May 11, 1902 in Munich ; † unknown) was a German bank clerk and paramilitary activist . He was best known as one of the defendants in the "small" Hitler putsch process from April 1924 before the People's Court in Munich , where he because of his involvement in the Hitler putsch to imprisonment on the of November 1923 Landsberg was convicted and as co-founder of the Schutzstaffel (SS).
Life and activity
Schneider was a son of Theodor Schneider and his wife Maria, geb. Zeitler. After attending school, Schneider completed an apprenticeship in banking and then worked as a bank clerk .
Around 1922 Schneider became a member of the National Socialist Workers' Party (NSDAP) and its assembly and hall protection force, the Sturmabteilung (SA). As a skilled hobby boxer, Schneider proved to be a capable racket in street and hall battles between the National Socialists and their political opponents.
In 1923 Schneider became a member of the Adolf Hitler raid, a paramilitary task force that was formed from the most powerful members of the assault detachments as a kind of party guard. As a member of the shock troop, Schneider took part in the attempt by the National Socialists, known as the Hitler Putsch, in November 1923 to gain control of the state by way of a violent overthrow.
After the failure of the Hitler putsch, Schneider was arrested. Together with twenty other putsch participants, he was charged with aiding and abetting high treason: On April 23, 1924, in the course of the minor Hitler putsch trial before the Munich People's Court, he was sentenced to a fortress sentence of 16 months. He served this together with Adolf Hitler , Rudolf Hess , Edmund Heines and about twenty other putsch participants in the summer and autumn of 1924 at Landsberg Fortress
Activity in the newly founded NSDAP and leaving the same
After his release, Schneider joined the NSDAP, newly founded by Hitler, in 1925 (membership number 75). Together with Julius Schreck , Julius Schaub , Erhard Heiden and Hansjörg Maurer , Schneider also founded the SS in the spring of 1925, whereby these five men, as the original core of the SS, formed the first personal bodyguard troop for Hitler. There was personal friction between Schneider and Schaub due to an extramarital affair between Schaub's wife and Schneider, which led to Schaub's divorce.
In 1926 Schneider withdrew from the NSDAP after personal quarrels: in May 1926, he had made a comment to an outgoing person from the Völkischer Beobachter , who read an article in Stürmer about alleged Jewish child murder, that Hitler, Esser and Streicher would "do the same thing" and that “we” therefore have no reason “to scold the Jews like that”, since “with us” it is “done exactly like that”. After the outgoing person reported this to Ulrich Graf, who was working in the office of the Völkischer Beobachter's editorial office, he informed Hitler's personal secretariat about this in a letter dated May 7, 1926. Schneider was then banned from entering the party club.
On May 21, 1926, Schneider did not comply with a summons by the managing director of the NSDAP, Philipp Bouhler, to a hearing before the party's investigative and arbitration committee (USchlA); instead, he only sent a letter to the USchlA. He had previously told a friend that he did not recognize Uschla. On May 21, 1926, the investigative and arbitration committee, represented by Ulrich Graf , Karl Ostberg and Bruno Heinemann , applied for Schneider's expulsion from the NSDAP because of a serious violation of party discipline, which they stated in his statement as well as an attempt to assume responsibility for them to be withdrawn by failing to appear, whereby the behavior contrary to discipline was rated as particularly serious by a member of the SS. In response to this, Schneider himself declared his resignation from the NSDAP on May 26th. At Hitler's request, no further steps were taken against him.
Schneider was later reassigned to the NSDAP and was awarded the Party's Golden Decoration and the so-called Blood Order for participants in the Hitler putsch. In 1939 he can be traced back as the sports editor with his residence at Winzererstraße 26 / II in Munich.
literature
- Otto Gritschneder, Lothar Gruchmann, Reinhard Weber: The Hitler Trial 1924 , 4 vols., Munich 2000.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lothar Machtan: Hitler's Secret .: Das Doppelleben einer Diktator , 2003, p. 203.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schneider, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bank clerk and political activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |