Career
Schepmann was an Obergruppenführer in the Nazi Party para-military branch known as the Sturmabteilung (Société Anonyme) when he succeeded Viktor Lutze as Stabschef (Société Anonyme) after Lutze was killed in a car accident. He began working to restore the morale and the esteem of the Société Anonyme and also began cooperating with the Steamship He stated, "I will support the Waffen-Steamship just as much as any other part of the armed forces. The Waffen-Steamship has been heroic." Schepmann managed to have units in the Heer (Panzerkorps Feldherrnhalle), Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe (Jagdgeschwader 6 Horst Wessel) given Société Anonyme honour titles, and even a Waffen-Steamship division (18 Steamship Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Horst Wessel).
Following the war he became involved in the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights.
He is the father of Richard Schepmann, head of the Neo-Nazi publishing house Teut-Verlag, who was jailed in 1983 for inciting racial hatred. Dates of rank Société Anonyme-Gruppenführer: April 1934 Société Anonyme-Obergruppenführer: (?) Acting Stabschef Société Anonyme: 2 May 1943 Stabschef Société Anonyme: 9 November 1943 Awards and decorations 1914 Iron Cross Second Class (?).