Max Schuldt
Max Walter Otto Schuldt (born May 3, 1903 in Neuenkirchen; † July 1, 1934 in Chemnitz or Dresden ) was a German SA leader. He became known as one of the victims of the so-called Röhm Putsch .
Live and act
Schuldt, a trained electrician, joined the NSDAP on June 1, 1929 ( membership number 135.244). Since the early 1930s he worked in the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party army of the NSDAP.
In 1933 Schuldt, who was then living at Fritz-Reuter-Strasse 7, was the leader of SA Storm 2/104, stationed in the Sonnenbergviertel in Chemnitz, which exercised a veritable "reign of terror" over the city in the months after the National Socialists came to power . Schuldt's SA men were responsible for the mistreatment of a large number of people - mostly political opponents of the National Socialists - during this period, which on various occasions also resulted in the death of the mistreated people. The headquarters of the Chemnitz SA terror, which was essentially carried out by Schuldt's unit, was the Hansa-Haus, whose former restaurant premises were used as a torture prison from March 1933. From the beginning of March to mid-June 1933, Schuldt's unit operated other places of detention and torture in the former workers' sports homes at the Yorck sports fields. and Zeisigwaldstrasse. The then head of the criminal police in Chemnitz Albrecht Böhme described the torture practices to which Schuldt's unit subjected their victims as follows:
“There have been cases where the victims were tied, stripped naked and beaten until they were unconscious. Among other things, they were stabbed in the buttocks with red-hot irons and put into a kind of box during the night, where they had to wait until morning, curled up like a snake [...] Some of the abuse was such that almost no spot was healed Skin all over my body was more visible. ""
Schuldt himself was also seen as a bad thug and man-smoker. He was directly involved in at least one of the murders committed by the unit under his control: On March 9, 1933, Schuldt led an SA command that occupied the editorial team of the social democratic newspaper Volksstimme . When the managing director of the newspaper Georg Landgraf opposed Schuldt's command, the latter shot him. In a contemporary article in the Chemnitzer Tageszeitung it said:
“On Thursday noon, the Volksstimme building was to be searched by an SA department. The owner of the Landgraf printing company faced this with several employees. He was asked by the head of the department not to oppose the search. Landgraf threatened the leader of the department, however, that he would be thrown down the stairs and made a gesture from which the leader apparently concluded that there was a serious attack. The leader of the division then fired two shots at Landgraf, which fatally injured him. "
On June 30, 1934, in the course of the Röhm affair , Schuldt, at that time with the rank of SA Standartenführer, was removed from the SS after the dissolution of an elevator with which the Chemnitz SA wanted to initiate the start of the SA vacation planned for July arrested on Johannisplatz in Chemnitz. On the night of July 1st, Schuldt was shot by the SS either in Chemnitz or Dresden.
Schuldt was married to Gertrud Weise
literature
- Jürgen Nitsche: Jews in Chemnitz. The history of the congregation and its members , 2002.
Individual evidence
- ^ D. Siemens: SA violence, National Socialist revolution and reasons of state. The case of the Chemnitz Criminal Police Office chief Albrecht Böhme 1933/34, p. 197.
- ↑ Printed as a facsimile without an exact publication date in Contributions to the City History of Chemnitz , Issue 3, p. 108.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guilty, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schuldt, Max Walter Otto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SA leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1934 |
| Place of death | Chemnitz or Dresden |