Walter Schmitt (SS member)

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Walter Schmitt

Walter Schmitt , (born January 13, 1879 in Hamburg , † September 18, 1945 in Praha-Ďáblice , Czechoslovakia ) was a German SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS (1942) and from 1943 to 1945 a member of the Reichstag ( NSDAP ) .

Early years

Schmitt attended the Realgymnasium in Hamburg from April 1888 to December 31, 1898 . He joined the 77th Infantry Regiment in Celle on January 13, 1899 as a flag boy . From 1899 to 1900 he attended the war school in Metz, where he reached the rank of lieutenant . In 1906 he was assigned to train as a weapons officer in a rifle factory. From 1906 to 1910 he was adjutant of a battalion of the 3rd Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 71 in Erfurt . In January 1910 he was promoted to first lieutenant and was district adjutant of the Celle district command until 1913 . On 22 March 1914 he was captain , in the summer of 1914 he was assigned to a Brunswick Infantry Regiment before becoming a company commander in the Reserve Infantry Regiment. 2 in the First World War was used. On September 9, 1914 he was captured by French troops and remained in French captivity until 1918. He was released to Switzerland in July 1918, where he remained in Bern as an internee until 1919. After his return he was in the Reichswehr until the end of 1920 before he was dismissed as a major on December 31, 1920 .

Career in National Socialism

Interrupting his military career, Schmitt initially worked from January 1921 to October 1931 as head of personnel in a Hamburg weaving mill. He was an honorary assessor of the arbitration committee and labor judge at the court in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg . During this time he was a member of the DNVP until 1927 , before joining the NSDAP on August 1, 1931 ( membership number 592.784). In October 1931 he was dismissed from his position as head of personnel in the weaving mill and joined the SA reserve, of which he was a member until January 1932. On February 8, 1932, he joined the SS (SS No. 28.737) and was leader of the SS troop Ballenstedt until July 1932. He was promoted several times until he was SS-Hauptsturmführer on February 16, 1934 , and from March 1, he was employed as personnel officer for Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler . By June 1, 1935, he was promoted to SS-Oberführer several times , and he also took up the position of head of the SS personnel office. At the same time he was the personal assistant to the Reichsführer SS. On January 30, 1936, he became SS Brigade Leader and Head of the Personnel Chancellery of the SS. Exactly one year later he was promoted to SS Group Leader and with the inspection of the SS Junker Schools and the SS Leaders School commissioned in Munich-Dachau.

In the run-up to the referendum on April 10, 1938, on the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, Schmitt was head of the main security staff and was unsuccessfully proposed in the 1938 Reichstag election . He remained head of the personnel chancellery in the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS until June 1, 1939 and was then head of the SS personnel main office until June 1942 . Since Schmitt fell ill, his successor in this post was Maximilian von Herff . During this time he was promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS on April 20, 1942 . From October 1942 Schmitt became an SS officer for special use in the staff of the Reichsführer SS. On May 8, 1943, Schmitt replaced the deceased Theodor Eicke in the Reichstag , where he represented constituency 30 until the end of the war. After the war ended, Schmitt was interned and sentenced to death by a Czech people's court . In mid-September 1945 Schmitt was executed in Ďáblice, now a district of Prague .

Awards

See also

literature

  • E. Kienast (Ed.): The Greater German Reichstag 1938, IV. Electoral period, R. v. Decker's Verlag, G. Schenck, June 1943 edition, Berlin.
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus D. Patzwall : The Golden Party Badge and its honorary awards 1934-1944 . Patzwall, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-931533-50-6 . P. 85.
personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German General of the Waffen-SS, SS-Obergruppenführer and Politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1945
Place of death Ďáblice