Heinrich Schneider (Nazi functionary)

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Heinrich Schneider (born December 3, 1894 in Kassel , † August 13, 1964 in Hamburg ) was a teacher by profession and from September 1944 to April 1945 district leader in Uelzen and regional training director of the NSDAP in the East Hanover district .

biography

Schneider learned in the teachers' seminar for elementary school teachers and taught from 1921 in Neuenlande , Verden and Lüneburg .

Schneider has the end of the Second World War prevented as district leader, the bloodless surrender of the city of Uelzen and responded to the offer of surrender of the British army: "Uelzen is defended to the last man!" In Uelzen stood at the time units of the Panzer Division Clausewitz , the tanks Division Feldherrnhalle 1 and a unit of the Waffen SS . On the side of the advancing Allies on April 13, the 15th Scottish Infantry Division fought with its 227th Brigade and the Highland Light Infantry. Heavy fighting broke out. The inner city was largely destroyed by gunfire and air strikes. The residents had previously fled to the surrounding forests. On April 17th, after a denunciation by a citizen of Uelzen, Schneider had a Captain Marquardt executed, who commanded defense units on Königsberg and had come to the clubhouse, the seat of the NSDAP district leadership, to report. Schneider commanded a court martial and had Marquardt shot by the soldiers of his own company. Before the British army conquered the city on April 18, 1945, Schneider fled to Lüneburg, disguised in the uniform of a Volkssturm man, to his apartment on Uelzener Strasse.

There he was arrested on May 6, 1945 and then taken to the Fallingbostel internment camp. On April 15, 1945, charges were brought against Marquardt's murder. On July 13, 1948, Schneider was sentenced to three years and three months in prison by the second court in the clubhouse for the murder of Captain Marquardt, which was offset against the period of imprisonment in the camp.

Schneider was not reinstated as a teacher after World War II. He was married and worked as a casual worker after the war.

literature

  • Reimer Egge: From Stresemann to Braunhemd - Uelzen from 1918 to 1945 . On behalf of the city of Uelzen, Becker Verlag, Uelzen 1985. Reprinted on behalf of the city of Uelzen, K + R Druck, Uelzen 2004
  • Reimer Egge: The Path to Democracy Uelzen from 1945 to 1955, script for the exhibition from September 25 to October 15, 2004 in the Uelzen town hall. Available online: Exhibition script (PDF file; 485 kB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reimer Egge: From Stresemann to Braunhemd - Uelzen from 1918 to 1945 . On behalf of the city of Uelzen, Becker Verlag, Uelzen 1985. Reprint on behalf of the city of Uelzen, K + R Druck, Uelzen 2004. pp. 123 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German war criminal, district leader of the NSDAP in Uelzen
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1964
Place of death Hamburg