Edmund Heines ( German: Edmund Heines , July 21, 1897 , Munich - June 30, 1934 , Munich-Stadelheim) - German politician, one of the highest leaders of the SA, Obergruppenführer of the SA (1933).
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Biography
Born as the illegitimate son of the servant of Helena Martha Hines. In 1915, after graduating from a gymnasium and a real gymnasium, he voluntarily joined the Bavarian army. During World War I he served on the Western Front in field artillery. In the fall of 1915, he was seriously wounded in the head. In 1918 he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve.
After the war he joined the volunteer corps of Rosbach. In 1919 he participated in battles in the Baltic states and then in March 1920 in the Kappovsky putsch . Gerhard Rosbach appointed him the manager of his Tiergarten club. During the coup, this club served as the headquarters of the Rosbach group. After the failure, the Freikor members fled to Mecklenburg and Pomerania . Hines was entrusted with the control of his comrades who took refuge on three estates in Pomerania. In July 1920, he was an accomplice in the massacre of Willy Schmidt, a twenty-year-old laborer who wanted to give the police the caches of weapons of members of the freicor.
Haines fled to Munich and in 1922 became the leader of the local Freibor Rosbach group. In December 1922, the group in full force transferred to the assault troops of the SA . Haines took command of the second battalion of the Munich regiment of the SA and joined the NSDAP (membership card No. 78). In 1924, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for participating in an attempt at a Hitler putsch . Contained with Hitler in Landsberg , was released ahead of schedule in September 1924. At this time, the NSDAP and the SA were banned. Haines became the commander of the second battalion of the Munich Frontbahn Regiment, which temporarily replaced the SA.
In 1925, after the ban was lifted from the NSDAP, Haines again joined the party and the SA. In 1926 he received the title of Standartenfuhrer and led the youth organization of the NSDAP. May 31, 1927 was expelled from the party and the SA as the instigator of the rebellion of the Munich SA. In his view, the NSDAP was too moderate and bureaucratic.
In 1927, as a result of an attempt at blackmail, the murder of Willy Schmidt received publicity. In 1928, a process took place in which Hines was sentenced for lynching to 15 years in prison. However, due to an investigative error, a repeated process took place in 1929. This time, Haines was sentenced to five years in prison. On May 14, 1929, he was released on bail in the amount of 5,000 Reichsmarks.
Upon his release, Haines spoke at various events organized in defense of mob law. The University of Munich at first refused to enroll him as a law student. In 1929, again joining the NSDAP and the SA, Haines became the commander of the land standard of the SA Munich. In 1930, he was an NSDAP Ortsgruppenleiter in Munich-Heidhausen and adjutant of Gauleiter Adolf Wagner . In September 1930, he was elected to the Reichstag .
For some time he was deputy Gauleiter of the Upper Palatinate , press officer at the SA High Command. In May 1931 he was appointed Deputy Ernst Ryom , and on July 31, 1931 became the commander of the SA group in Silesia .
On March 26, 1933, Haines was appointed to the post of police president of Breslau . In this capacity, he was responsible for the creation of the Dürrgoy concentration camp, which contained many well-known social democrats, communists, trade unionists, lawyers and journalists.
In the spring of 1933, Haines was appointed deputy Gauleiter of Silesia. On July 11, 1933, he received the honorary title of Prussian State Councilor. Ryom made him Obergruppenführer and appointed commander of the Obergroup CA VIII (Silesia).
On June 30, 1934, during the “ Long Knives Night ” campaign, Haines was arrested and shot.
At the time of his arrest, he was in the Hanselbauer guesthouse in the Bavarian resort of Bad Wiessee , where he arrived at a meeting of the SA leadership. In the early morning, Hitler and Goebbels discovered Heines in the same bed with his personal chauffeur. Later, this circumstance was cited as a propaganda justification of the action in evidence that it had the goal of eliminating the "painful elements" and "perverts."
The arrested were taken to the Stadelheim prison in Munich. By order of Hitler, Haines was shot on the same day with five other comrades.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 124349595 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
Literature
- Klee, Ernst: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003.
- Eberle, Henrik: Hitlers Weltkriege: Wie der Gefreite zum Feldherrn wurde. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2014.