Wilhelm Schroeder

This article deals with the politician Wilhelm Schroeder. For other people see Wilhelm Schröder .

Wilhelm Schroeder

Wilhelm Schroeder (born April 23, 1898 in Leipzig , † July 8, 1943 near Redin, Carinthia ) was a German politician (NSDAP) and SS leader .

Life

After attending primary school , Schroeder completed an agricultural apprenticeship from 1920 to 1921. From October 1914, Schroeder took part in the First World War as a volunteer . After initially being a member of the infantry, Schroeder was deployed as a pilot from October 1917 or only from 1918 (contradicting information in various editions of the Reichstag handbooks). Since 1916 he held the rank of lieutenant in the reserve. During the war he was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes, among other things . After the war he attended a grammar school in Dresden from 1919 to 1920, where he made up for his Abitur. He then studied agriculture , economics , history and art in Munich for a year . From 1923 to 1932 Schroeder earned his living as an estate inspector. In 1927 he married.

In January 1923, Schroeder joined the NSDAP ( membership number 63.277) after having been in contact with it since 1922. He also became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). After the party was temporarily banned from November 1923 to January 1925, he rejoined the NSDAP in 1926. In the following years he held various party functions: From 1930 he appeared as a party speaker. He also became a local group leader and agricultural district consultant . In 1932 he also took over the leadership of SA Standard 139 (until February 1935).

In the Reichstag election of July 1932, Schroeder was elected as a candidate of the NSDAP for constituency 29 (Leipzig) in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic . After his mandate was confirmed in the following three elections - in November 1932, March 1933 and November 1933 - Schroeder took over the mandate for constituency 22 (Düsseldorf East) on the occasion of the election in March 1936, which he retained until April 1938. He last represented constituency 34 (Hamburg) from April 1938 until his death in July 1943. One of the important parliamentary events in which Schroeder was involved during his time as a member of parliament was the vote on the Enabling Act in March 1933, which was also passed with Schroeder's vote .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in the spring of 1933, Schroeder was promoted to SA standard leader. In 1934 Schroeder became a member of the State Farmers' Council of Saxony. On February 12, 1935 he joined the Schutzstaffel (SS) (membership no. 261.293). From May 6, 1935 to January 15, 1937, he led the 20th SS standard (Düsseldorf). From January 1, 1937 to May 20, 1939 Schroeder was the leader of SS Section XV (Dortmund). On November 9, 1937, he was promoted to SS-Oberführer.

On June 1, 1939, Schroeder was promoted to Staff Leader of the SS Upper Section Alpenland, whose headquarters were in Salzburg. In 1943 he was promoted to Obersturmführer of the Waffen SS . According to the work The Grossdeutsche Reichstag , Schroeder died in July 1943 as Obersturmführer of the Waffen SS during an anti -partisan campaign in Carinthia. From private documents (letter of condolence from his commander F. Bochmann, Dienststelle FBNr.48 2 79 a, July 15, 1943) it emerges that Schroeder remained on July 8, 1943 “west of the village of Gouki as head of the heavy tank company of our regiment before the enemy is ". A newspaper clipping also refers to the fact that Schroeder "died as SS-Obersturmführer and company commander in the SS Panzer Grenadier Division 'Totenkopf' in the current heavy fighting in the east".

Other awards that Schroeder received were the golden party badge , the Reich sports badge in gold, the sword of honor of the Reichsführer SS and the skull ring of the SS .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Grossdeutsche Reichstag , 1943, p. 51.

literature

• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).

Web links

• Wilhelm Schroeder in the database of members of the Reichstag