1. Hans Schemm was an educator who became a prominent Nazi Party official.
17 Facts About Hans Schemm
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Hans Schemm served as Gauleiter of Gau Bayreuth and Bavarian State Minister for Education and Culture until his death in an airplane accident.
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Hans Schemm attended volksschule for five years and then a teacher training preparatory school.
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Hans Schemm taught school beginning in 1910, first in Wulfersreuth, then as of 1911 in Neufang.
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On 20 May 1928, Hans Schemm was elected a member of the Bavarian Landtag, serving until September 1930.
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On 1 October 1928 when Julius Streicher's large Gau of Northern Bavaria was broken up, Hans Schemm became the Gauleiter of the newly established Gau of Upper Franconia.
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On 24 November 1928, Hans Schemm co-founded the National Socialist Teachers League in Hof and was elected its leader on 21 April 1929.
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In July 1931, Hans Schemm founded the Bayreuth National Socialist Cultural Publishing House, which beginning on 1 October 1932 published the daily newspaper Das Frankische Volk.
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On 8 December 1929 Hans Schemm became a member of the Bayreuth Stadrat and chairman of its Nazi faction.
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On 19 January 1933, the Gau of Upper Franconia, led by Hans Schemm, was merged with the Gau of Lower Bavaria-Upper Palatinate to form the Gau Bavarian Eastern March.
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On 10 March 1933, when the Nazis seized control of the Bavarian state government, Hans Schemm was made the Staatskommissar in charge of education and culture, and was appointed one of the state's representatives to the Reichsrat until its abolition on 14 February 1934.
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In October 1933, Hans Schemm became a member of the Academy for German Law.
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Hans Schemm was a holder of the Golden Party Badge and was granted honorary citizenship of Bayreuth.
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On 1 April 1934, Hans Schemm was named head of the Main Office for Education at the Brown House, the national headquarters of the NSDAP.
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Passau honored Hans Schemm by dedicating a street and a school to him.
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On 5 March 1935 Hans Schemm was seriously injured in an aircraft crash.
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Hans Schemm was given a lavish state funeral, attended by Hitler and most Party and State dignitaries.