Wilhelm Schepmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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SA general and politician
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Place of Birth: Winz-Baak, Free State of Prussia, Germany
About Wilhelm Schepmann
- Wilhelm Schepmann (17 June 1894 – 26 July 1970) was an SA general in Nazi Germany and the last Stabschef (Chief of Staff) of the Nazi Stormtroopers. Schepmann was an Obergruppenführer in the Nazi Party para-military branch known as the Sturmabteilung (SA) when he was appointed by Adolf Hitler to succeed Viktor Lutze as Stabschef (SA) in 1943.
- Lutze had died in May that year, after a serious car accident.
- However, by then the SA had been thoroughly marginalized as far as political power in Nazi Germany. Since January 1939, the role of the SA was officially mandated as a training school for the German armed forces with the establishment of the SA Wehrmannschaften (SA Military Units).
- Then with the September 1939 invasion of Poland, the SA lost most of its remaining members to military service in the Wehrmacht (armed forces).
- The SA officially ceased to exist in May 1945 when Nazi Germany was defeated and surrendered.
- The SA was banned by the Allied Control Council shortly after Germany's capitulation.
- In 1946, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg formally judged the SA not to be a criminal organization.
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