Wilhelm Schneider (politician, 1906)

Wilhelm Schneider (born October 23, 1906 in Katowice , † January 30, 1943 in Rostov-on-Don ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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Schneider's homeland came to Poland in 1922 after the referendum in Upper Silesia and was incorporated into the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship . Wilhelm Schneider, an active member of the Wandervogel movement, became the organizer of the youth group of the German-Upper Silesian People's Association . In the early 1930s he was a co-founder of the Young German Party (JdP) in Upper Silesia, but there was a split within the party after a conflict with its chairman Rudolf Ernst Wiesner . From 1937 he headed the German Working Group and in 1939 the German People's Block for Silesia.

After the German invasion of Poland , Schneider acted as district commissioner from October 1939 and, after joining the party (1940), as district leader of the NSDAP in Königshütte . On October 8, 1940, Schneider entered the National Socialist Reichstag as a member of parliament . Schneider retained the district leader post and his mandate in the Reichstag until his death. Paul Roden then continued the mandate in the Reichstag.

Schneider enlisted in the army in 1942. After being seriously injured on the Eastern Front , he died on January 30, 1943 in Rostov-on-Don .

literature

• 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 .
• Beata Dorota Lakeberg: The German minority press in Poland 1918-1939 and their image of Poland and the Jews . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-60048-1 , p. 339 ( limited preview in Google Book search).