Michael Heuschneider

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Michael Heuschneider

Michael Heuschneider (born December 12, 1888 in Oberhof, Lower Bavaria, † after 1936) was a German politician (NSDAP).

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Heuschneider attended elementary school in Oelsnitz in the Ore Mountains from 1894 to 1902 . From 1902 to 1908 he worked as a miner in Oelsnitz. From 1908 to 1910 he was a member of the 139 Infantry Regiment in Döbeln. Then he worked again as a miner in Oelsnitz until 1914.

In August 1914, Heuschneider entered the First World War as a member of the 181 Infantry Regiment . During the war he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class, the St. Heinrich Medal, the Friedrich August Medal and the Wound Badge. In 1918 Heuschneider was taken prisoner by the English, from which he returned in 1919 in the rank of Vice Sergeant in the Reserve.

After the war Heuschneider worked as a supervisor for the "Germany" trade union in Oelsnitz. From 1923 to 1926 he was also a city councilor there. In the 1920s he also joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). In July 1932 he was elected to the Reichstag as a member of constituency 30 (Chemnitz-Zwickau) , to which he was a member until 1936. As Standartenführer of SA Standarte 183 he was involved in the mistreatment and murder of prisoners in the Oelsnitz concentration camp.

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  1. ^ Wolfgang Benz and Barbara Distel; The Place of Terror: History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps, Volume 2, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 2406529623 , pp. 176f