Ludwig Karl Hermann Schröder (12 September 1884 – 28 July 1941) was a

Luftwaffe The ''Luftwaffe'' () was the aerial-warfare branch of the German ''Wehrmacht'' before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' of the Imperial Army and the '' Marine-Fliegerabtei ...

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who served as the second

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in the

Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia The Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia (german: Gebiet des Militärbefehlshabers in Serbien; sr, Подручје Војног заповедника у Србији, Područje vojnog zapovednika u Srbiji) was the area of the Kin ...

. 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 identification. This order also contained a ban on the free exercise of professions and exclusion from the public service and private companies. This was followed by the command of the military administration to do forced labor. The Nazi measure to register Jewish assets was also carried out to facilitate the later "

aryanization Aryanization (german: Arisierung) was the Nazi term for the seizure of property from Jews and its transfer to non-Jews, and the forced expulsion of Jews from economic life in Nazi Germany, Axis-aligned states, and their occupied territories. I ...

" (de-Jewification). With these orders by Schröder, anti-Jewish persecution measures were standardized in the entire occupied Serbia.Walter Manoschek: ''Gehst mit Juden erschießen?'', erschienen in ''Vernichtungskrieg - Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941 bis 1944'', Zweitausendeins, 1995, , S. 39f. Schröder died in the Hohenlychen SS hospital, where he had been transported on 23 July after an airplane accident in Belgrade. He left behind his wife Marie and three children, Ursula, Ludwing and Eva-Maria.

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