Hinrich Schuldt

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Rudolf Hinrich Schuldt (born June 14, 1901 in Blankenese ; † March 15, 1944 in Petschane ( Ostrow district )) was a German officer in the Reichsmarine , later the SA , SS , police and Waffen-SS in World War II . After his death he was posthumously promoted to SS Brigadefuhrer and Major General of the Waffen SS. Schuldt was one of the twenty members of the Waffen-SS who were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.

family

Hinrich Schuldt was the son of the HAPAG captain and later ship owner Rudolf Schuldt († 1922) and his wife Meta nee Hinrichsen (* 1873). On July 8, 1942, Schuldt married the secretary Ilse Schleyer in The Hague , the marriage remained childless.

Life

youth

Schuldt first attended secondary school in Flensburg and graduated from high school in March 1922 . In his youth he was a member of the German National Freedom Party (DVFP) of the Flensburg local group. In addition, he belonged to the German National Guard and Trutzbund and the organization "Escherich" .

Imperial Navy

On April 1, 1922, Schuldt joined the Reichsmarine as a midshipman . He belonged there as a maritime officer candidate to crew 22; that crew in which Reinhard Heydrich also started his service. The midshipman completed his basic training from April to September 1922 with the 2nd corporal body in Kiel-Holtenau . He completed the subsequent practical on-board training from October 1922 to the end of March 1924 on the ships Braunschweig , Niobe and Berlin . On board these ships, Schuldt toured Italy , Portugal , Spain and France . During this time, Schuld acquired his private pilot's license. On April 1, 1924 he was promoted to ensign at sea . In April 1926 that followed for senior ensign at sea and in October of the same year for lieutenant at sea . In January 1928, Schuldt resigned from the Reichsmarine after making a racist statement. The background to this was his statement to a Jewish member of the Reichsmarine that non-Aryans were in principle unsuitable for soldiers.

Private sector

Schuldt's exclusion from the Reichsmarine did not lead to his turning away from the sea. From 1929 to December 1933 he worked as a nautical and military teacher at the Hanseatic Yacht School in Sierksdorf . During this time, Schuldt joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in December 1931 , which confirmed its admission on February 1, 1932 with membership number 975.664. On the same day he also joined the SA as an SA man. With effect from December 12, 1933, Schuldt changed to the rank of SS Sturmführer to the SS standard "Adolf Hitler" , but without officially changing to the SS. He then acted as platoon leader in this SS standard until January 1934 . Then back in the service of the SA, until June 1934 Schuldt was initially assigned to the staff of the chief of training of the SA Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger ; later he was a training officer in the inspection of the naval storms of the SA under SA-Untersturmführer and later NSFK-Obergruppenführer Alfred Krüger .

protection Squad

On April 25, 1934, Schuldt asked Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler to join the SS. At the same time, he switched his old crewmate Heydrich into this matter. On June 11, 1934, Schuldt's request was granted and he joined the " Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler " as an SS man . Then Schuldt was a platoon leader until October 1934 , now in the renamed Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler" . After that he was leader of the 3rd storm in the local 1st storm until November 1938. During this time he was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer on January 10, 1935 and in March 1935 to SS-Hauptsturmführer . In October 1938 Schuldt took part in the Anschluss of the Sudetenland , where he had an accident in a car and sustained injuries that led to a three-week hospital stay in Plauen, later he had to undergo two more operations. On November 1, 1938, he was posted to the SS standard "Germania" in Hamburg , where Schuldt was used in the staff of I. Sturmbann. There he was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer on November 9 of the same year . In June 1939 he was transferred to the SS standard "Germany" in Munich , where he was deployed as a battalion commander.

Second World War

During the German attack on Poland , Schuldt was the leader of the Kampfgruppe Schuldt, named after him, in the SS-Standarte Deutschland in the association of the Panzer Division Kempf . His combat group consisted of two rifle companies, half a machine gun company and the Hoheisel tank company and an infantry gun platoon (IG platoon). After the end of the fighting in Poland, Schuldt was assigned to the SS regiment "Germania" ( Karl Demelhuber ) for service, where he was responsible for all subordinate regimental units. In mid-December 1939 Schuldt was assigned to the police reconnaissance department , whose leadership he held from January 1 to the end of March 1940. Subsequently, assigned to the 4th SS-Totenkopf-Standard "Ostmark" , Schuldt was first in its staff and from April 30, 1940 battalion commander of the 1st battalion. As this was his standard in the context of the Western campaign occupying the Netherlands . In August 1940, the renaming followed 4. SS Totenkopf Standarte "Ostmark" in the SS Infantry Regiment 4 .

After the Eastern campaign began , Schuldt was transferred to SS Infantry Regiment 5 with effect from July 15, 1941 , where he took over the command of the 1st Battalion. In this position he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer on September 1, 1941 . As such, Schuldt led SS Infantry Regiment 4 from September 13, 1941 to April 20, 1942 in the association of the 2nd SS Infantry Brigade in the northern section of the Eastern Front. On April 20, 1942, his regiment was given the honorary name Langemarck due to their combat merits and was renamed the SS Regiment "Langemarck" , which Schuldt continued to command until December 1, 1942, from August 7, now SS-Standartenführer . At this point the regiment had been transferred to France to refresh, where Schuldt said goodbye to his regiment in Tessy in November 1942 .

Latvian members of the Waffen SS on the occasion of the Latvian national holiday on November 18, 1943.

On December 1, 1942, Schuldt became the leader of the Kampfgruppe Schuldt on the Don Front, named after him . His combat group was a mixture of different units of the Waffen SS, including parts of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, SS police units and other parts of the SS Panzer Grenadier Division "Das Reich" . On February 23 and February 26, 1943, Schuldt was wounded twice by shrapnel within a few days in the Nikitowka - Bachtewitsch area . For this reason, at the beginning of March 1943 he was admitted to the SS military hospital in Berlin-Lichterfelde and the day after his group was withdrawn from combat operations. On March 15, 1943 his combat group was dissolved in Debica . On May 11, 1943, Adolf Hitler presented him with the oak leaves for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on the Obersalzberg for his services to date. Still in the recovery phase, on June 29, 1943, Schuldt wrote to SS-Obergruppenführer Hans Jüttner, requesting that a new deployment be carried out at the front. Reichsführer SS Himmler then decided that, after his health was restored, Schuldt would take over the 2nd ( Latvian ) SS Volunteer Brigade of the Latvian SS units . After Schuldt was released from the hospital in the same month, he was given command of the brigade intended for him with effect from September 1, 1943. On September 5, 1943, he took over command and on November 9, 1943, Schuldt was promoted to SS-Oberführer . The combat area of ​​his unit was in the Peipussee and Ilmensee area and in the Wolchowbrückenkopf on the northern section of the Eastern Front. The Schuldts Brigade was renamed twice in the course of its existence. Once in the 2nd Latvian SS Volunteer Brigade and on January 7, 1944 in the 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Latvian No. 2) . From January 1944 the division was under the XXXVIII. Panzer Corps (General of the Artillery Kurt Herzog ).

death

On March 15, 1944 Schuldt was near the village Petschane by Pak fatally -Volltreffer. He was 42 years old. He was laid out in Riga and buried there in the Forest Cemetery II at the Riga Cathedral. On March 16, 1944, Schuldt was posthumously promoted to SS-Brigadführer and proposed by the general of the XXXVIII Army Corps Herzog for the award of the swords to the oak leaves, which were awarded to him on March 25, 1944. On June 1, 1944, Hitler Schuldt's mother granted a monthly allowance of 150 Reichsmarks and on January 15, 1945, the 43rd Waffen Grenadier Regiment of the SS (Latvian No. 2) was given the honorary name "Hinrich Schuldt".

Awards

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (ed.): Germany's generals and admirals. Part 5: Andreas Schulz, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen-SS and the police. Volume 5: Schlake - Turner. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-7648-3209-9 .
  • Erwin Lenfeld, Franz Thomas: The oak leaf bearers . 1940-1945. 2nd, improved edition. Weilburg-Verlag, Wiener Neustadt 1982, ISBN 3-900100-07-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Andreas Schulz, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 5: Schlake - Turner. 2011, p. 189.
  2. ↑ a b c Andreas Schulz, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 5: Schlake - Turner. 2011, p. 192.
  3. ↑ a b Andreas Schulz, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 5: Schlake - Turner. 2011, p. 190.
  4. ↑ Andreas Schulz, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 5: Schlake - Turner. 2011, p. 191.
  5. ↑ a b c Erwin Lenfeld, Franz Thomas: Die Eichenlaubträger 1940–1945. 1982, p. 241.
  6. ↑ a b Andreas Schulz, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 5: Schlake - Turner. 2011, p. 193.
  7. ↑ Andreas Schulz, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 5: Schlake - Turner. 2011, p. 194.
  8. ↑ Andreas Schulz, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 5: Schlake - Turner. 2011, p. 195.
  9. ↑ a b Andreas Schulz, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 5: Schlake - Turner. 2011, p. 196.
  10. ↑ Andreas Schulz, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 5: Schlake - Turner. 2011, p. 197.
personal data
SURNAME Guilty, Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader in World War II
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Blankensee
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1944
Place of death Pechane