One of the Nazi Pioneer, Scheubner-Richter died on the Beer Hall Putsch on November 9, 1923. If he had lived
longer, I suspect he would be with Hitler to the end of World War II. I will
post information about him from Wikipedia and other links.
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Max Scheubner-Richter
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Ludwig Maximilian Erwin von Scheubner-Richter or Max Scheubner-Richter, born Ludwig
Maximilian Erwin Richter (21 January 1884 – 9 November 1923) was an early
member of the Nazi party. It was Scheubner-Richter along with Alfred Rosenberg who devised the plan to drive the German government to
revolution through the Beer Hall Putsch. During the Putsch, he was shot in
the lungs and died instantly, at the same time dislocating Hitler's right
shoulder.
Scheubner-Richter
was a Baltic German born in Riga, Livonia and lived a large part of his life in
the Russian Empire. During the Russian Revolution of 1905 he belonged
to one of the private armies set up to fight against the revolutionaries. He
married the daughter of a manufacturer whose factory he had guarded. The
'Scheubner' in his surname was prefixed to his own from his wife's family name:
an old German form of having one's lineage ennobled. During the First
World War, he served in Ottoman
Turkey as the German vice consul of Erzerum. In
addition to holding that post, Scheubner-Richter documented the Turkish
massacres of Armenians as part of the Armenian
Genocide.
After
the war he was involved in the Russian counter-revolution. Scheubner-Richter
moved to Germany from Russia along with Alfred Rosenberg in 1918. He was the leader
of the Aufbau Vereinigung, a conspiratorial organisation, composed of White
Russian émigrés and Völkisch minded German National Socialists.
At
the end of September 1923, Scheubner-Richter provided Hitler with a
lengthy plan for revolution, writing:
"The national revolution must not precede the seizure of political power; the seizure of the state's police power constitutes the promise for the national revolution" and "to lay hands on the state police power in a way that is at least outwardly legal".
During
the Beer Hall Putsch, walking arm-in-arm with Hitler, he was shot in the lungs
and died instantly as Hitler and others marched toward armed guards on 9
November 1923. He had brought Hitler down and dislocated Hitler's right
shoulder when he fell. He was the only first-tier Nazi leader to die during the
Putsch. Of all the early party members who died in the Putsch, Adolf Hitler had
claimed Scheubner-Richter to be the only "irreplaceable loss". The
first part of Hitler's book Mein Kampf is dedicated to Scheubner-Richter and the
other fifteen men who died in the Putsch.
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