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{{r|Adalbert Probst}} (Catholic youth leader in Munich, former Bavarian Landtag deputy) | {{r|Adalbert Probst}} (Catholic youth leader in Munich, former Bavarian Landtag deputy) | ||
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{{r|Wilhelm Schmidt}} Music critic. Mistaken For SA-Gruppenführer [[Wilhelm Eduard Schmidt]], arrested in the [[Night of the Long Knives]] by the SS and killed while in custody | {{r|Wilhelm Schmidt}} Music critic. Mistaken For SA-Gruppenführer [[Wilhelm Eduard Schmidt]], arrested in the [[Night of the Long Knives]] by the SS and killed while in custody | ||
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Parent topics
- Adolf Hitler [r]: (1889–1945) Politician in Germany; became 1921 Nazi Party leader, 1933 Reichskanzler (Chancellor), then 1934 as der Führer dictator before and during World War II. [e]
- National Socialism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Socialism in National Socialism [r]: The role of various socialist ideas in the practical development of the Nazi movement [e]
Subtopics
Victims (partial list)
Names omitted when there is no significant biographical information available
- Herbert von Bose [r]: Franz von Papen's secretary; killed in his office during the Night of the Long Knives purge [e]
- Ferdinand von Bredow [r]: Major General in Reichswehr who headed Abwehr military counterintelligence and was deputy defense minister;associate of Kurt von Schleicher; opponent of Adolf Hitler; shot during Night of the Long Knives [e]
- Georg von Detten [r]: SA-Gruppenfuehrer, Sturmabteilung political chief, NSDAP Reichstag deputy; killed in the Night of the Long Knives [e]
- Werner Engels [r]: SA-Sturmbannführer, acting Police President of Breslau; killed during Night of the Long Knives [e]
- Karl Ernst [r]: (1904-1934) Freikorps Rossbach, ex-hotel doorman, homosexual protege of Paul Röhrbein + Ernst Röhm, SA Gruppenführer, NSDAP Reichstag deputy; shot during Night of the Long Knives; last words were “Heil Hitler!” [e]
- Walter Foerster [r]: Lawyer, in Hirschberg, Germany, who had worked against the Nazis; killed in the Night of the Long Knives [e]
- Fritz Gerlich [r]: (1883-1934) German Catholic and conservative journalist, anti-Nazi after witnessing Beer Hall Putsch, arrested 1933 by Nazis; held in Dachau Concentration Camp; killed during the Night of the Long Knives [e]
- Hans Hayn [r]: (1896-1934) Freikorps, Black Reichswehr, and Fehmemord member, SA-Gruppenführer. NSDAP Reichstag deputy, shot during Night of the Long Knives [e]
- Edmund Heines [r]: (1897-1934) WW1 German officer, member of Freikorps Rossbach; expelled from SA 1927 for notorious homosexuality but reïnstated by Ernst Roehm as SA-Obergruppenführer for Silesia 1931; NSDAP Reichstag deputy; killed during Night of the Long Knives [e]
- Oskar Heines [r]: (1903-1934) Brother of Edmund Heines , SA-Obersturmbannführer; during the Night of the Long Knives purge, he surrendered to the Gestapo and was immediately killed [e]
- Hans Peter von Heydebreck [r]: (1889-1934) SA-Gruppenführer, NSDAP Reichstag deputy, the “Hero of Annaberg”; killed during the Night of the Long Knives [e]
- Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald [r]: SS Reiter und Oberyruppführerührer (regional cavalry leader); shot by SS men during the Night of the Long Knives on order of his rival Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski [e]
- Edgar Julius Jung [r]: (1894-1934) Journalist and speech writer for Franz von Papen; shot during the Night of the Long Knives [e]
- Gustav von Kahr [r]: (1862-1934), Prime Minister of Bavaria at the time of the Beer Hall Putsch; killed in the Night of the Long Knives [e]
- Erich Klausener [r]: Member of the German Center Party and Catholic Action, and head of the Prussian Ministerial Police; killed during the Night of the Long Knives [e]
- Fritz Ritter von Krausser [r]: Add brief definition or description (1888-1934) cavalry officer, Freikorps Epp, SA-Obergruppenführer, protege of Ernst Roehm, NSDAP Reichstag deputy
- Gustav von Lossow [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Adalbert Probst [r]: Add brief definition or description (Catholic youth leader in Munich, former Bavarian Landtag deputy)
- Hans Ramshorn [r]: Add brief definition or description SA-Brigadeführer, Police president of Gleiwitz
- Kurt von Schleicher [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wilhelm Schmidt [r]: Add brief definition or description Music critic. Mistaken For SA-Gruppenführer Wilhelm Eduard Schmidt, arrested in the Night of the Long Knives by the SS and killed while in custody
- Wilhelm Eduard Schmidt [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionSA-Gruppenführer arrested by Emil Maurice who shot him later, during Night of the Long Knives
- August Schneidhueber [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Emil Sembach [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bernhard Stempfle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gregor Strasser [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Julius Uhl [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Erwin Villain [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gerd Voss [r]: Add brief definition or description
Survivors
- Leonhardt graf Du Moulin Eckart [r]: Add brief definition or description (Born Jan. 11, 1900, doctor at law, SA, homosexual associate of Röhm, chief of the Nazi Party's information service in the Brown House in 1932. Escaped Night of the Long Knives; later arrested but acquitted for procuring and for unnatural sexual intercourse on Oct. 21, 1934
- Theodore Duesterberg [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hermann Ehrhardt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander Glaser [r]: Add brief definition or description attorney to Kurt Luedecke arrested during Blood Purge)
- Hans Elard Ludin [r]: Add brief definition or description (1905-1947}}Reichswehr officer 1924-1930, under fortress arrest for Nazi political activities 1930-1931, SA-Obergruppenführer, Leader of SA Group Southwest 1933. Arrested during Blood Purge. Later Minister to Slovakia Jan 1941-1945, convicted by a Czech court in Slovakia and executed.
- Gerd Luetgebrune [r]: Add brief definition or description Attorney to Ernst Roehm Arrested during Blood Purge)
- Franz von Papen [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gerhard Rossbach [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alfons Sack [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paul Schulz [r]: Add brief definition or description (Ex-Reichswehr Oberleutnant, associate of Strasser. Deeply anti-Socialist he strove to keep the socialists Strasser and Röhm separated by homophobic baiting Hitler and Strasser. Out of power following the Strasser/Schleicher incident, he had earned Hitler’s enmity by imprudent homophobic statements; escaped being killed in the Night of the Long Knives
- Gertrude Strasser [r]: Add brief definition or description (Wife of Otto Strasser. Arrested in Berlin, 30 June 1934 by the Gestapo, tortured and held for several weeks, while pending shipment to a concentration camp she escaped to Prague)
- Otto Strasser [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gottfried Treviranus [r]: Add brief definition or description (1881-1971) politician, ex-DNVP, founder of People’s Conservative Union, minister in Bruening cabinet. Barely escaped arrest during Blood Purge, exiled to England)
- Ernst Udet [r]: Add brief definition or description (1896-1941), SA Air Squadron Führer. Invited to Gauleiter Wagner’s banquet/trap on Munich 30 June 1934, he was the only one to escape from the banquet room, albeit dazed and with a large gash on his forehead, when he ran into Hitler, who told him to leave immediately)
Reprieved by Goering
- Rudolf Diels [r]: Add brief definition or description (1900 - 1957. WW1 veteran, lawyer, Prussian police from 1930, Gestapo investigator of the Reichstag fire, protegé of Göring, forced from office by Heydrich and Himmler. Prosecution witness at Nürnberg)
- Frederick Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst Hohenzollern [r]: Add brief definition or description (1882 - 1951) Crown Prince of Prussia