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Heinz Pernet (5 September 1896 – 30 June 1973) was a
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military officer and
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's stepson. He was a top figure in the
Beer Hall Putsch The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch,Dan Moorhouse, ed schoolshistory.org.uk, accessed 2008-05-31.Known in German as the or was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party ( or NSDAP) leader Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff and othe ...
of November 1923. He was among the nine men tried and convicted along with
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and
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in 1924. He later became an SA-''
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''.


Early life

Pernet was the son of Margarethe Schmidt and her husband Karl Maria Anton Robert Pernet. After their divorce, Margarethe took care of Heinz and his two brothers and a sister. In 1909, she married officer
Erich Ludendorff Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German general, politician and military theorist. He achieved fame during World War I for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914. ...
, who thus became Pernet's stepfather. From 1914 to 1918, Pernet participated in the
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, where he served as a pilot, as did both his brothers, who were shot down and killed in the course of the war.


Postwar, Hitler putsch and process

After the war, Pernet was a member of the Guard Cavalry Rifle Division until the spring of 1923, when he moved to Munich. There he came into contact with the NSDAP through his stepfather, an early supporter of the party and acquainted to
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. In November 1923, Pernet took part in the
Beer Hall Putsch The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch,Dan Moorhouse, ed schoolshistory.org.uk, accessed 2008-05-31.Known in German as the or was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party ( or NSDAP) leader Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff and othe ...
in Munich. On the evening of 8 November he participated in the occupation of the
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and then picked up his stepfather in his villa, together with
Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter Ludwig Maximilian Erwin von Scheubner-Richter ( Lettish: ''Ludvigs Rihters'') ( – 9 November 1923) was a Baltic German political activist and an influential early member of the Nazi Party. Scheubner-Richter was a Baltic German from Russia ...
. On Hitler's orders, Pernet seized large sums of money (1,460 trillion Reichsmark) in the Jewish printing house Mülthaler and Parcus on the night of 8-9 November in order to distribute them to the putschists in support of the coup d'état. On the morning of 9 November 1923 Pernet marched to the
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in the second row of the putschists (behind Hitler, Ludendorff, Scheubner-Richter,
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, Kurt Neubauer, and
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). After the defeat of the coup by the provincial police, Pernet was able to flee. In the spring of 1924 he surrendered himself to the Bavarian authorities. From 26 February to 1 April 1924, the criminal trial for high treason took place before the People's Court of Munich I. The court acknowledged mitigating circumstances. Under the presiding judge Georg Neithardt he was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for aiding and abetting treason, but served only 4 months before being pardoned and released.


Later life

From 15 September 1924 to 31 March 1926 Pernet worked as an office worker at the Motor Technology Society in Munich. He then took over a position at the Chemical Study Society in Freiberg from 15 April 1926 to 30 November 1928. From June 1929 to 30 June 1933 he finally worked for Siemens and Halske. On 1 February 1932 Pernet joined the
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, where he received the party member number 887.088. He also became a member of the
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(SA). On 31 August 1933 he received the rank of SA-Standartenführer - a leadership position as a staff leader in the rank of a standard leader of the SA Brigade 53 in Karlsruhe. Later he was promoted to SA-Brigadeführer. On 1 March 1935 Pernet took up a position as adjutant of the Reich Governor of Bavaria
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. He held that position until 1938, when he was appointed Chief Adjutant in the staff of the Reichsschatzmeister NSDAP Franz Schwarz and was further promoted to SA-Oberführer. On 30 January 1942 he became SA-Brigadeführer. By that time, the SA had almost completely lost its influence and lacked the manpower nor the support to play any significant role within the structure of the state. With the end of the war, Pernet was briefly detained by the Allies, but was released in 1946 when the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg formally judged the SA not to be a criminal organization. He retired to Freiburg, where he lived until his death in 1973. Pernet married physiotherapist Christine Mathilde (born 22 February 1906 in Reez; died 29 August 1967 in Freiburg) in 1936. They had three children.


References

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