Max Linsmayer

Max Linsmayer (born January 1, 1907 in Hammelburg , Lower Franconia, † May 14, 1940 in France ) was a German SA leader, most recently with the rank of SA group leader .

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Linsmayer joined the NSDAP on February 12, 1926 ( membership number 30,349). His entry into the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party's street combat organization, took place on January 18, 1930. In this he was promoted to SA-Standartenführer in December 1930 and was entrusted with the leadership of SA-Standarte D ( Danzig ). From September 15, 1932 to September 15, 1933, Linsmayer then acted as the leader of the SA sub-group Danzig and from September 15, 1933 to January 1, 1935 as the leader of the SA-Brigade 6, into which the sub-group had been converted in September 1933 .

Starting in 1935, Linsmayer was transferred to the Supreme SA leadership in Munich for several years as chairman of the SA Supreme Court . He also held functions in the Austrian Legion .

On April 10, 1938, Linsmayer was appointed leader of the SA brigade in Oldenburg. In the same month, on the occasion of the Reichstag election of April 10, 1938, he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the National Socialist Reichstag on the “Führer’s List”. He received the rank of SA Brigade Leader in September 1938. In November 1938 Linsmayer finally took over the position of Leader of the SA Group Lower Saxony while being promoted to SA Group Leader.

Linsmayer died on May 14, 1940 as a participant in World War II as a lieutenant and platoon leader in an anti-tank regiment in combat operations in France.

According to Bruce Campbell, the sources of Linsmayer's person and activity are very thin, as the SA personnel files of senior SA leaders who were killed in the early stages of World War II have not been preserved for unknown reasons.

literature

• Der SA-Führer, issues 1–12 , year 1941, p. 10. (death report)
• Bruce Campbell: The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism , Lexington 2004.