Robert Schulz

This article deals with the SS-Brigadführer and politician Robert Schulz. For other people see Robert Schulze .

Robert Schulz (portrait photo in the Reichstag Handbuch 1938)

Robert Schulz (born July 28, 1900 in Pyritz ; † November 26, 1974 in Dahlenburg ) was an SS brigade leader under National Socialism and a member of the Reichstag .

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Schulz was born in Pyritz in 1900 as the son of a master tailor. He attended the boys' primary school in Pyritz from 1906 to 1914 and then did an apprenticeship as a pastry chef . Once finished, he took in May 1918 in the infantry regiments 147 and 148 in the First World War in part. After the end of the war he took part in border battles in East Prussia with the Niemeyer Corps and the Eastern Border Guard . After his discharge from army service in July 1920, he was partly unemployed until October 1923, partly as a farm worker and pastry assistant.

As a teenager, Schulz joined the anti-Semitic Reichshammerbund in 1916 . From 1919 he belonged to the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund .

In March 1922 he switched to the NSDAP ; in October of the same year he became a member of the SA . Schulz was the founder of the local NSDAP groups in Harburg and Tilsit and appeared as a speaker for the party from 1923. In October 1923 he gave up his profession and became a member of the Freikorps Roßbach . After the party was temporarily banned, he rejoined the NSDAP in May 1925 ( membership number 3,654). In October 1925 he switched from the SA to the SS (SS No. 392). From October 1925 to September 1926 Schulz was Gau managing director and deputy to the Gauleiter for Mecklenburg, Friedrich Hildebrandt . Meanwhile working as a confectioner in Lübeck , Schulz became deputy Gauleiter in Pomerania in May 1927. In January 1929 he founded the Nazi weekly newspaper Die Diktatur , which was published in Pomerania.

In the election in September 1930 he received a mandate in the Reichstag (constituency 6 - Pomerania), which he retained even after the transfer of power to the National Socialists until the end of the Nazi regime in 1945. From November 1933 he was the leader of the SD section in Pomerania; In 1936 he was promoted to the leader of the SD-Obschnitt North based in Stettin . In January 1936 Schulz became governor of the Pomeranian province in Stettin. Disciplinary proceedings for alcohol abuse classified as harmful to the SS resulted in his demotion from Oberführer to Standartenführer in July 1937. In April 1939 Schulz was again promoted to SS-Oberführer.

After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Schulz was commissioned to set up the so-called Gau self-administration in the occupied city ​​of Posen . From October 1939 he was Gauamtsleiter for local politics in Reichsgau Wartheland and part-time until April 1941 Gaustabsamtsleiter taking care of the business of the deputy Gauleiter. From April 1940 to 1945 he was Gauhauptmann von Wartheland and from May 1940 as a leader in the staff of the SS Upper Section Warthe. In November 1940 Schulz volunteered for the Wehrmacht, where he was deployed as a reserve officer in a training regiment. Schulz was last promoted to brigad leader in the SS in April 1942. In the final phase of the Second World War , Heinrich Himmler ordered in March 1945 that Schulz should be trained in defusing bombs and that he should be deployed immediately.

After the end of the Nazi regime, Schulz worked as an administrative officer until 1965 and lived in Barsinghausen until March 1967 . He then moved to Dahlenburg , where he died in November 1974. A few years before his death, he was investigated for the murder of mentally handicapped people in the Tiegenhof , Treskau, Kosten , Wartha and Schrimm sanatoriums . However, the proceedings were only opened nine days after his death.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 600 f .
• Eckard Hansen: Welfare Policy in the Nazi State. Motivations, conflicts and power structures in the »socialism of action« of the Third Reich. (= Contributions to social policy research , volume 6) MaroVerlag, Augsburg 1991, ISBN 3-87512-176-7 , p. 456 f.
• Peter Sandner: Administration of the Murder of the Sick - The Nassau District Association under National Socialism , Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen 2003, ISBN 978-3-89806-320-3 , p. 741 (pdf; 1.1 MB)

Web links

• Robert Schulz in the database of members of the Reichstag