Ludwig von Schröder (General)

Ludwig Karl Hermann Schröder , von Schröder since 1912 , (born September 12, 1884 in Kiel , † July 28, 1941 in Hohenlychen ) was a German vice admiral and most recently a general of the flak cartillery , SS group leader and military commander in Serbia during World War II .

Life

He was the son of the future Admiral Ludwig von Schröder and his wife Anna, née Lemcke. He grew up in Kiel with his younger siblings Annaliese and Ursula.

On April 1, 1903, Schröder joined the Imperial Navy as a midshipman and completed his ship training on the training ship SMS Moltke . A year later he went to the naval school and was appointed ensign at sea on April 15, 1904 . After completing his training, he was assigned to the East Asia Squadron and came on board the heavy cruiser SMS Hansa , with which he returned to Germany in October 1906. Until April 3, 1907 he came on board the liner SMS Kaiser Karl der Große . He was then used as an officer on watch on various ships .

When the First World War broke out , Oberleutnant zur See (from March 27, 1909) was active in this function on the liner SMS Preußen , the flagship of the Second Squadron of the High Seas Fleet. After his promotion to lieutenant captain on January 27, 1915, he was transferred on April 13, 1915, also as an officer on watch, to the large-scale ship SMS Markgraf . On July 15, 1917, Schröder moved to the Marine Corps Flanders , which was under his father's command.

After the end of the war he retired from the Navy on November 6, 1919. However, Schröder was reactivated on August 27, 1920 and accepted into the Reichsmarine . In 1921 he took over as head of the Reichsmarinedienststelle in Lübeck and was promoted to Korvettenkapitän on May 1, 1922 . From September 22, 1924, Schröder came to the ship of the line Hessen and was deployed until September 24, 1928, first as an artillery officer, then as first officer . He then came to the fleet command as 2nd Admiral Staff Officer and became a frigate captain on December 1, 1928 .

On October 12, 1929 Schröder received his first command with the small cruiser Amazone and took over the light cruiser Cologne in the same function on January 15, 1930 . On it he was promoted to captain at sea on October 1, 1930. Schröder gave up command on September 27, 1932 and became site and port commander of Kiel. At the same time he was appointed on February 1, 1934. Second Admiral of the Baltic Sea and promoted him on 1 October to Rear Admiral . As such, it was January 2, 1934 to September 30, 1937 commander of the fortifications of the Pomeranian coast and was eliminated on that date with the simultaneous presentation of the character as Vice Admiral of the Navy from.

Schröder then joined the Air Force on December 1, 1937 with the rank of Lieutenant General . On December 23, 1937, he became vice-president of the Reichs Luftschutzbund and its president on May 30, 1939, after he had been promoted to general of the anti-aircraft cartillery on April 1.

On April 20, 1941, he was appointed SS group leader . Until May 30, 1941 he was President of the Reich Air Protection Association.

As the military commander in Serbia , he initiated a definition of Jews on May 31, 1941, which provided for the registration and identification of all Jews and Gypsies by means of a yellow armband. This order also contained a ban on the free exercise of professions and exclusion from the public service and private companies. This was followed by the commanding of the military administration to do forced labor . The National Socialist measure to register Jewish assets was also carried out to facilitate the later " Aryanization " (de-Jewification). With these orders by Schröder, anti-Jewish persecution measures were standardized throughout the Serbian occupation.

Schröder died in the Hohenlychen SS military hospital , where he had been transported on July 23 after an airplane accident in Belgrade. He left behind his wife Marie, née Fooken, the three children Ursula, Ludwig and Eva-Maria.

Awards

Order of the Crown IV class on the ribbon of the rescue medal
Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords on June 15, 1918
Prussian rescue medal on ribbon
Hanseatic Cross Hamburg
Friedrich-August-Kreuz II. And I. Class
Hanseatic Cross Bremen
Iron crescent

literature

Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 3: P-Z. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1700-3 . Pp. 271-273.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig von Schröder (admiral) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Walter Manoschek: Are you going to shoot Jews? , published in War of Extermination - Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941 to 1944 , Zweiausendeins, 1995, ISBN 3-86150-198-8 , p. 39f.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Ranking list of the German Reichsmarine. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1929. p. 41.

personal data
SURNAME	Schröder, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schröder, Ludwig Karl Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German naval officer, general of the anti-aircraft cartillery and military commander in Serbia during World War II
DATE OF BIRTH	September 12, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kiel
DATE OF DEATH	July 28, 1941
Place of death	Hohenlychen

[1] Walter Manoschek: Are you going to shoot Jews? , published in War of Extermination - Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941 to 1944 , Zweiausendeins, 1995, ISBN 3-86150-198-8 , p. 39f.

[RanglisteM1929-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Ranking list of the German Reichsmarine. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1929. p. 41.