Albert Schlageter

Born on 12 August 1894 in Schönau, into a farming family. He volunteered in 1914 and fought in Champagne and Flanders. He was decorated with the Iron Cross Second Class and later, in 1918, with the Iron Cross First Class. After the War, he joined the Freikorps militia units and then, after their dissolution, the Heinz Organisation which was a kind of parallel secret police force working for the German government. He took part in a number of attacks. In 1923, leading a Heinz Organisation group, he organised numerous attacks against the French occupation of the Ruhr. He was arrested on 7 April 1923, condemned to death and executed on 26 May 1923.