Edmund Heines
[clarification needed] Edmund Heines (* July 21 1897 in Munich; † June 30 1934 in Munich) was Ernst Röhm's deputy in the SA, and possibly one of his lovers as well.[1]Adolf Hitler had a close friendship with Röhm, and to a lesser degree with Heines.[2]
Hitler's chauffeur Erich Kempka claimed in a 1946 interview that Edmund Heines was caught in bed with an unidentified 18 year old male when he was arrested during the Night of Long Knives, although he has not actually witnessed this himself.[3] Heines, Röhm, and many other SA leaders were executed shortly after their arrest. Hitler identified Heines as one of the principal members of a "small group of elements which were held together through a like disposition" in his Reichstag speech of 13 July 1934.
Life
He served in World War I as a volunteer, and retired in 1918 as a lieutenant.
In 1925 he joined the Nazi Party and the SA (stormtroopers). In 1929 he was convicted of murder, but soon got amnesty. In the same year he was raised up as head of Nazi district for a short-term of the area Upper Palatinate. In 1930 he became a member of the Reichstag for the district of Liegnitz. From 1931 to 1934 he was SA leader in Silesia and at the same time deputy to Ernst Röhm. In 1933, he was on the Prussian privy council, and in May of the same year he became head of police in Breslau.
References
- ^ See Lothar Machtan's biography The Hidden Hitler, translated by John Brownjohn (Oxford: The Perseus Press, 2001), p. 111.
- ^ Ibid., p. 138
- ^ "Night of the Long Knives : Nazi Germany".