Heinz Pernet
Heinz Otto Kurt Pernet (born September 5, 1896 in Charlottenburg ; † June 30, 1973 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German officer. Pernet was best known as one of the ten main defendants in the 1924 Hitler Putsch trial in Munich .
Life
Youth and First World War
Pernet was the son of Margarethe Schmidt and her husband Karl Maria Anton Robert Pernet. After the parents' divorce, the mother took Heinz as well as his two brothers and a sister with her into their second marriage, concluded in 1909, with the officer Erich Ludendorff , who thus became Pernet's stepfather.
From 1914 to 1918 Pernet took part in the First World War, in which he was used as a pilot, among other things. A 1936 book spreads the story that the struts of Pernet's left wing broke during a scouting flight over Russian lines, so that Pernet's plane was about to become uncontrollable. With the presence of mind, however, he was still able to turn around to save himself across the lines into German-occupied territory. There he fell from a height of 2000 meters into a forest, sustaining serious injuries and bruises. After his recovery he was assigned to Oswald Boelcke's squadron. This anecdote relates to his brother Franz Pernet , who died in September 1917 as a member of the Boelcke hunting squadron . In addition to Franz, Erich Pernet also fell as a pilot in the First World War.
Post-war period, Hitler putsch and trial
After the war, Pernet was a member of the Guard Cavalry Rifle Division . According to Goodspeed, members of this unit murdered communist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg . Subsequently, Pernet was a member of the Reichswehr until 1923 . In the spring of 1923 he moved to Munich , where he came into contact with the NSDAP through his stepfather .
In November 1923, Pernet took part in the Hitler putsch in Munich. On the evening of November 8th, he took part in the occupation of the Bürgerbräukeller and then, together with Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter , picked up his stepfather in his villa. On the orders of Hitler, Pernet confiscated large amounts of money (1460 trillion Reichsmarks) in the Jewish printing works Mülthaler and Parcus on the night of November 8th to 9th, in order to distribute them to the putschists in support of the putsch enterprise.
On the morning of November 9, 1923, Pernet marched on the Feldherrnhalle in the second row of the putschists (behind Hitler, Ludendorff, Scheubner-Richter and Göring and next to Ludendorff's servant Kurt Neubauer and probably Hitler's adjutant Ulrich Graf ).
After the putschist train was crushed by the state police , Pernet was able to flee. In the spring of 1924 he voluntarily surrendered to the authorities. From February 26 to April 1, 1924, the criminal trial for high treason took place before the People's Court in Munich I. The court recognized attenuating circumstances. Under the presiding judge Georg Neithardt , he was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for aiding and abetting high treason.
Next life
From September 15, 1924 to March 31, 1926, Pernet worked as an office clerk at the Motortechnische Gesellschaft in Munich. He then took on a position at the Chemical Study Society in Freiberg from April 15, 1926 to November 30, 1928. From June 1929 to June 30, 1933, he finally worked for Siemens and Halske.
On February 1, 1932, Pernet joined the NSDAP, which was newly founded in 1925 (887,088). He also became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). On August 31, 1933 he received in this - with the rank of SA standard leader - a leadership position as staff leader with the rank of standard leader of the SA Brigade 53 in Karlsruhe. Later he was promoted to SA Brigadefuhrer.
On March 1, 1935, Pernet took up a position as adjutant to Franz Ritter von Epp , Reich Governor of Bavaria , which he held until 1938. In 1938 he then took over the position of chief adjutant on the staff of the Reich Treasurer of the NSDAP, Franz Xaver Schwarz .
Since 1940 Pernet - who had been married to the physiotherapist Christine Mathilde (* February 22, 1906 in Reez; † August 29, 1967 in Freiburg), with whom he had three children - belonged to the staff of Luftgaukommando VII in Munich .
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Vol. 98 of the complete series, 1990.
- ↑ Adam Buck rice: politics of the 20th century. World history 1901–1936 , 1936, p. 484.
- ^ Franz Pernet on Frontflieger.de
- ↑ Erich Permnet on Frontflieger.de
- ^ Donald James Goodspeed: Ludendorff . 1968, p. 220.
- ^ Georg Franz-Willing: Putsch and period of prohibition of the Hitler movement . 1977, p. 67.
- ↑ cf. Bräuninger, Werner : Hitler's opponents in the NSDAP: 1921-1945, Munich: Herbig, 2004 ( ISBN 3-7766-2367-5 ), p. 370; Schöneburg, Volkmar : Max Hoelz (1889-1933): Questions to the Weimar judiciary because of its legality: Three letters from the prison, in: Year Book for Research on the History of the Workers' Movement (JBzG), 2nd year, volume 1, 2003 , P. 156, fn. 21.
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| SURNAME | Pernet, Heinz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pernet, Heinz Otto Kurt (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer and participant in the Hitler-Ludendorff putsch |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charlottenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1973 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |