Walter Schuhmann

Walter Schuhmann (3 April 1898 – 2 December 1956) was a Nazi Party official who became head of the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization (NSBO). He also was a member of the SA and the SS.

Early life Schuhmann, the son of a toolmaker, first attended Volksschule and advanced training school in Berlin before working in agriculture. He completed his training at the agricultural cooperative in Brandenburg founded by Theodor Fritsch. He enlisted in the Imperial German Army in 1917 and fought in the First World War on both the eastern front and the western front, where he was wounded in 1917. Returning to civilian life in 1919, he worked in Berlin until 1929 as a machinist of high antennas and lightning rods. From 1920 to 1925 he was a member of the Freikorps Oberland.

Schuhmann joined the Nazi Party (membership number 19,874) and its paramilitary organization, the Sturmabteilung (SA), in October 1925. As an early member of the Party (Alter Kämpfer) he would later be awarded the Golden Party Badge. He became the section leader in Berlin's borough of Neukölln from September 1926 to November 1929. From November 1929 to December 1930 he was Organisationsleiter (Organizational Leader) in Gau Berlin under Gauleiter Joseph Goebbels.

No details are documented concerning Schuhmann's post-war life, and he died in Berlin in December 1956.