Ludwig von Schröder (Luftwaffe)

Ludwig Karl Hermann von Schröder (12 September 1884 – 28 July 1941)^[1] was a Luftwaffe General who served as the second Military Commander in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia.^[2][3]

Ludwig von Schröder
Born	12 September 1884 Kiel, German Empire
Died	28 July 1941(1941-07-28) (aged 56) Lychen, Nazi Germany
Allegiance	German Empire (1903-1918)  Weimar Republic (1918-1933)  Nazi Germany (1933-1941)
Rank	General der Flakartillerie

As the military commander in Serbia, on 31 May 1941 he ordered the registration of the Jews and Gypsies, who had to be registered and carry a yellow armband as a means of identification.^[1] This order also contained a ban on the free exercise of professions and exclusion from the public service and private companies.^[4] This was followed by the command of the military administration to do forced labor.^[4] The Nazi measure to register Jewish assets was also carried out to facilitate the later "aryanization" (de-Jewification).^[4] With these orders by Schröder, anti-Jewish persecution measures were standardized in the entire occupied Serbia.^[4] Schröder died in the Hohenlychen SS hospital, where he had been transported on 23 July after an airplane accident in Belgrade.^[2][5]

References

1. "Lexikon der Wehrmacht -". www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
2. Shepherd, Ben (2012). Terror in the Balkans : German armies and partisan warfare. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-674-06943-5. OCLC 794004256.
3. Browning, Christopher R. (2004). The origins of the Final Solution : the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, September 1939-March 1942. Jürgen Matthäus. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p. 334. ISBN 0-8032-0392-6. OCLC 54860099.
4. Walter Manoschek: Gehst mit Juden erschießen?, erschienen in Vernichtungskrieg - Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941 bis 1944, Zweitausendeins, 1995, ISBN 3-86150-198-8, S. 39f.
5. Kroener, Bernhard R.; Muller, Rolf-Dieter; Umbreit, Hans (2000). Germany and the Second World War: Volume 5: Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power. Part I: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources, 1939-1941. OUP Oxford. p. 95. ISBN 9780191606830.