Execution of Edmund Heines - Brutal NAZI SA Leader & Killer Murdered during Night of the Long Knives. dmund Heines, the illegitimate child of Helene Martha Heines, was born on 21 July 1897 in Munich, then part of the German Empire. His father was Lieutenant Edmund von Parish from a Hamburg merchant family, in whose service his mother was a nanny.
The First World War began on the 28th of July 1914. On the following year, Heines joined the Bavarian Army and fought on the Western Front as a field artillery operator. In the fall of 1915, he was severely wounded in the head, earned the Iron Cross 1st Class and 2nd Class, and was promoted to lieutenant of the reserve in 1918.
The First World War ended on the 11th of November 1918 when the German leaders signed the armistice in the Compiègne Forest in France.
In the new Weimar Republic, which was the name given to the German government from 1918 to 1933, Heines became involved in the Freikorps movement. In the aftermath of the First World War and during the German Revolution of 1918-1919, Freikorps, or independent paramilitary units, proliferated across Germany.
Composed primarily of World War I veterans returning from the war, the Freikorps fought against communists and other groups they believed were responsible for German defeat. Freikorps acted with particular brutality and violence and many of its units proved to be rebellious and difficult for the German government and military to control. By 1921, approximately 400,000 men were involved in Freikorps paramilitary groups. One of these groups was Freikorps Roßbach that fought in West Prussia and the Baltic States.
In March 1920, Heines participated in the Kapp Putsch which was an attempted coup against the German national government in Berlin on 13 March 1920. Its goal was to undo the German Revolution of 1918-1919, overthrow the Weimar Republic, and establish an autocratic government in its place. It was supported by parts of the Reichswehr - the German Army, as well as nationalist and monarchist factions.
After the failure of the putsch, members of the Freikorps went into hiding. In July 1920, Edmund Heines was involved in the murder of Willi Schmidt, a 20-year-old farm worker who allegedly wanted to reveal hidden arms caches of the disguised Freikorps.
Following Schmidt's murder, Heines returned to Munich and in 1922 became leader of the Munich Ortsgruppe, the local Freikorps Roßbach group. In December of the same year, Heines became Member #78 of the Nazi Party, and transferred his Munich Ortsgruppe to the Sturmabteilung or the SA, the Nazi paramilitary force also known as the Storm Troopers or the "Brownshirts" for the color of their uniform. He would soon become one of the SA's leading members.
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