1. Wilhelm Schepmann was an SA general in Nazi Germany and the last Stabschef of the original Nazi paramilitary branch, the SA.
15 Facts About Wilhelm Schepmann
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Wilhelm Schepmann was born June 1894 in the German city of Hattingen.
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Wilhelm Schepmann served in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 as a soldier of the Westphalian Jagerbattalion No 7 and was deployed on both the western and eastern fronts.
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Wilhelm Schepmann joined the Nazi Party in 1925.
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From 1932 to 1933 Wilhelm Schepmann was a member of the Prussian Landtag and from November 1933 a member of the Reichstag.
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Wilhelm Schepmann worked as a leader of the SA subgroup Westphalia-South in the rank of SA superintendent.
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In March 1936 Wilhelm Schepmann was commissioned to manage the position of the Kreishauptmann of Dresden-Bautzen and received the appointment as district governor three months later.
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Subsequently, until August 1943, Wilhelm Schepmann served as the President of the Dresden-Bautzen district.
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Wilhelm Schepmann held this position until the end of the war in Europe.
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Wilhelm Schepmann began working to restore the morale and the esteem of the SA.
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On 26 September 1944, Wilhelm Schepmann was appointed Chief of Staff for the German Volkssturm's Shooting Training.
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Wilhelm Schepmann was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, but appealed, and was acquitted in 1954.
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Wilhelm Schepmann wanted to pursue his previous work as a teacher again, but this was refused by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education.
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In 1952, Wilhelm Schepmann was elected to the district council and to the municipal council via the BHE list in the county of Gifhorn in West Germany.
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Wilhelm Schepmann is the father of Richard Schepmann, head of the Neo-Nazi publishing house Teut-Verlag, who was jailed in 1983 for inciting racial hatred.