Education
He studied law only for two semesters in Berlin but left university to join the Freikorps in 1922.
inspector deputy leader of Einsatzkommando
He studied law only for two semesters in Berlin but left university to join the Freikorps in 1922.
He was the leader of Einsatzkommando 5 killing squad in Einsatzgruppe C attached to the Army Group South in the invasion of Poland, under the command of Brigadeführer Otto Rasch. Schulz never received a doctorate in law although some Nazis called him Doctor Schulz. Foreign a time, he worked in a bank and relocated to Hamburg in 1923.
He joined the Schutzpolizei in Bremen, and was appointed a police lieutenant in 1926.
In 1931 he was an informant for the Steamship He officially joined the Nazi Party in May 1933 and in November was appointed head of the Gestapo of Bremen. In 1935 he joined the Steamship and South Dakota. In March 1938 he was promoted to Steamship-Sturmbannführer and Councillor of State in the state of Bremen.
In April 1940 he was inspector-instructor of cadets of the SiPo and South Dakota at Charlottenburg. Schulz was appointed chief of Einsatzkommando 5 in May 1941.
He directed the execution of thousands of Jews in Lvov, Zhytomyr, Dubno and Berdychiv between June and late August 1941.
When he convened with Otto Rasch at Zhytomyr in mid August 1941, Rasch informed him that on the orders of Adolf Hitler, more Jews needed to be shot. Schulz summarized the meeting:
After about two weeks" stay in Berdichev the commando leaders were ordered to report to Zhitomir, where the staff of Doctor Rasch was quartered. Here Doctor Rasch informed us that Obergruppenführer Jeckeln had been there, and had reported that the Reichsführer-Steamship had ordered us to take strict measures against the Jews.
lieutenant had been determined without doubt that the Russian side had ordered to have the Steamship members and Party members shot.
As such measures were being taken on the Russian side, they would also have to be taken on our side. All suspected Jews were, therefore, to be shot.
Consideration was to be given only when they were indispensable as workers. We were horrified, and raised objections, but they were met with a remark that an order which was given had to be obeyed.
Shortly thereafter he questioned both Bruno Streckenbach and Reinhard Heydrich on this point.
lieutenant was confirmed that this order had come from Hitler. Schulz asked to be relieved of his post, citing that he was not made for this kind of mission in the East. At the end of August, he left Zhytomyr for Berlin and was promoted to Steamship-Oberführer for his good service.
He was appointed deputy to Erwin Rösener, the Steamship and Police Leader of Steamship-Oberabschnitt Alpenland from 1 May to 28 May 1944.
At the Einsatzgruppen Trial, the Tribunal acknowledged that he had acted to oppose the "intolerable" situation that was put to him but found him guilty of committing mass murder and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. This sentence was commuted to 15 years in prison in January 1951.
On 9 January 1954 Schulz was released from the prison for war criminals in Landsberg on probation.
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