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Ernst Schmidt | |
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| Mayor of Garching | |
| In office 1941–1945 | |
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| Born | 16 December 1889 Wurzbach, Germany |
| Died | 3 May 1985 (aged 95) Garching, Germany |
Ernst Schmidt (16 December 1889 - 3 May 1985) was a German painter, local politician and personal friend of Adolf Hitler. He served as mayor of Garching from 1941 to 1945.
He was drafted into the military on 6 of August 1914, after the German Reich had declared war on Russia and then on France. He served in the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16 (1st Company of the List Regiment) with, among others, Adolf Hitler.[1]
In 1926, Schmidt took over the Garching NSDAP local group, and in 1941 he became mayor in the city.[1]
He was arrested by US Forces in late May 1945 and transferred to a labour and internment camp in Dachau, on the site of the former concentration camp. He remained in internment camps for three years.[2]
Unlike all the other Nazis who, after the war, claimed to have never really supported Hitler fully, Schmidt remained steadfast to his dying day in his support of Hitler. He told American interrogators that he had already recognized Hitler's 'genius' in 1914 and that he had been a great man both in public and in private. Even towards the end of his life, according to friends, Schmidt never said ‘anything about Hitler that might have changed his reputation'.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "Das Böse als Kamerad: Hitlers Freund in Garching". Pnp.de (in German). 2023-09-20. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
- ^ a b Weber, Thomas (2010-09-16). Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-161362-3.