Walter Schulz (SA member)

Walter Hermann Julius Friedrich Schulz (born September 2, 1897 in Kolberg , † July 2, 1934 in Stettin ) was a German SA leader and victim of the Röhm putsch .

Life and activity

Walter Schulz's death certificate (registry office 1934).

Schulz was a son of the businessman August Friedrich Hermann Schulz (1859–1937) and his wife Anna Wilhelmine Antonie, b. Bertinetti (1872-1927). In his youth, Schulz took part in the First World War. At the end of the war he left the army as a first lieutenant. Since 1919 Schulz belonged to the Freikorps Rossbach. In 1920, as a friend of Edmund Heines, he was involved in the incidents of the femicide of the farm worker Willi Schmidt, who in 1927 was the subject of the so-called Stettin fememicide trial. Schulz himself was taken into custody as part of the prosecution of the murder of Schmidt and Heines, but was eventually released for lack of evidence.

During the years of the Weimar Republic, Schulz earned his living as a businessman and authorized signatory. Politically, he did not excel any more until 1933: After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Schulz joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 (membership number 1,853,763). In addition, he became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), in which in the summer of 1933 he assumed the position of an aide to the former Freikorpsführer, who was Oberführer on the staff of Schulz's old friend Heine, at that time leader of the SA group Silesia Hans Peter von Heydebreck dressed.

After Heydebreck's appointment in September 1933 (official commencement of service on September 15, 1933) as leader of the SA group Pomerania, Schulz accompanied him to Stettin , the headquarters of the group's leadership. With effect from December 1, 1933, Schulz was finally appointed staff leader of the group of around 200,000 men.

On June 30 or July 1, 1934, Schulz was arrested on the occasion of the Röhm affair . According to his death certificate at the Stettin registry office on July 14, 1934, he died at 1.45 a.m. on July 2, 1934 in Falkenwalder Strasse in Stettin. In the official death list of the Röhm affair, no place of death was given for him.

That Schulz was seen as one of the main responsible for the alleged coup plans of the SA in the Pomerania area is proven by the fact that the group leader Friedrich requested the initiation of high treason proceedings against the SA Standartenführer Doelger on August 14, 1934, which he justified by saying that he had "intimate relationships" with "Heydebreck, Spreti , Schulz and Karpenstein " and "therefore knew about their plans". From files that were allegedly found at Schulz, it should also have emerged that SA Standard 9 had been commissioned to occupy the Kolberg and Belgard barracks.

On July 7, 1934, Schulz was posthumously excluded from his previous position and his rank was withdrawn from the SA.

See also

• List of people killed in the course of the so-called Röhm Putsch

literature

Research literature:

• Otto Gritschneder: "The Führer has sentenced you to death" Hitler's Röhm Putsch murders in court , 1993.

Non-scientific literature:

• "Heydebreck received a group leader enthusiastically", in: Pommersche Zeitung of September 16, 1933.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Register office Kolberg: birth register no. 404/1897.
2. ↑ Robert Thevoz, Hans Branig : The Secret State Police in the Prussian Eastern Provinces 1934-1936. Pomerania 1934/35 in the mirror of Gestapo situation reports and factual files (representation / sources) , Grote, Cologne and Berlin, 1974 (= publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property; vol. 11), vol. 2, p. 290.
3. ↑ Robert Thevoz, Hans Branig: The Secret State Police in the Prussian Eastern Provinces 1934-1936. Pomerania 1934/35 in the mirror of Gestapo situation reports and factual files (representation / sources) , Grote, Cologne and Berlin, 1974 (= publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property; vol. 11), vol. 2, p. 287.
4. ↑ Leader's Order of the Supreme SA Leadership No. 26, p. 11.