Wilhelm Schmid (SA member)

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Wilhelm Schmid

Wilhelm Schmid (born June 3, 1889 in Munich , † June 30, 1934 in Stadelheim ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader. From 1933 to 1934 Schmid was a member of the Reichstag .

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Schmid was born in Munich in 1889 as the son of a Catholic family. After attending primary school and graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium , he joined the 11th Infantry Regiment of the Bavarian Army in Munich in 1909 as a flag junior . Promoted to officer in 1911, he took part in the First World War with the 23rd Infantry Regiment from 1914 to 1918 , during which time he worked successively as platoon commander , company commander and battalion commander.

After the war Schmid joined the Freikorps Epp as a captain , with whom he participated in the civil war-like conflicts in the German Reich in 1919/20. In Munich the Freikorps smashed the Munich Soviet Republic and in the Ruhr area it participated in the suppression of workers' uprisings .

After leaving the Epp Freikorps, Schmid initially belonged to the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 42 as a company commander and from May 16, 1920 he was in the same position in Infantry Regiment 19 of the Reichswehr , from which he resigned in the spring of 1921. In 1923 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). In November of the same year he took part in the Hitler-Ludendorff putsch .

When the NSDAP was re-established in the spring of 1925 - after a year and a half's ban from late 1923 to early 1925 - Schmid initially did not join it again. Instead, he worked as a commercial representative in the following years and was temporarily unemployed. It was not until February 1, 1931, that Schmid, who was then living at Mainzerstraße 7a in Munich, rejoined the NSDAP ( membership number 505.892). In the following years he made a career in the Sturmabteilung (SA), the private army of the NSDAP, in which he was appointed to the staff of the Supreme SA Leader at the instigation of his friend Ernst Röhm , who had been Chief of Staff of the SA since 1931. There he headed the personnel department of the SA until 1934 and, as group leader of the SA group Hochland, was next to August Schneidhuber , the police chief of Munich, the highest-ranking representative of the SA in Munich.

On the occasion of the Reichstag election of November 1933, Schmid was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag, in which he represented constituency 30 (Chemnitz-Zwickau) until his death in June 1934. Wilhelm Bösing continued his mandate for the remainder of the electoral term .

In the course of the Röhm affair on the night of June 30, 1934, Schmid and Schneidhuber were summoned personally by Hitler, who had come to Munich, and accused of treason against him, Hitler, and the NSDAP: Hitler relieved Schmid and Schneidhuber with reference to some marches of the Munich SA, which had given him the impression that the SA was being raised, of all their offices and tore their medals and badges of rank from their uniforms. He then had her arrested and taken to the Stadelheim prison, where Schmid and Schneidhuber were from the SS on the afternoon of June 30, along with four other SA leaders ( Hans Hayn , Edmund Heines , Hans Peter von Heydebreck and Hans Erwin von Spreti-Weilbach ) were shot.

Archival material

In the Federal Archives there are a few personal documents on Schmid in the sub-inventory "Party correspondence" in the holdings of the former Berlin Document Center (Bundesarchiv Berlin: Holdings PK Film Q 51 "Schmidt, Wilhelm - Schmid, Willi", images 381–388). The Bavarian Main State Archive in Munich keeps a military personnel file on Schmid from his time in the Bavarian army (OP 28297) in the war archive department.

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  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB -ID 12448436 , 1908/09