Memorial Sign for Franz Scheider,
Belgradstraße 16

As a teenager, Franz Scheider became a member of the Communist Youth Organisation of Germany. After the National Socialists came to power, the nineteen-year-old was involved in the production and distribution of the banned communist ‘Neue Zeitung’ newspaper. Franz Scheider was arrested and sentenced to two years and three months in prison in 1934.

Ten years later, Franz Scheider was sent to Greece with the Wehrmacht as part of ‘probation unit 999’, where the Wehrmacht and SS committed terrible war crimes. He and his comrades planned to disarm the officers. They were betrayed. On 9 June 1944, Franz Scheider was executed for ‘war treason combined with subversion of the armed forces’.

On Friday, 9 June 2023, a memorial service was held for Franz Scheider at his former home at Belgradstraße 16. Speakers included city councillor Thomas Lechner, Dr Albert Knoll from the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial and Friedbert Mühldorfer from the  Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime - VVN-BdA, the initiator of the Memorial Sign. Werner Schäfer, a relative of Franz Schneider, emphasised the significance of the Memorial Sign for the family and Thomas Rock from the Schwabing-West district committee added how important such places of remembrance in the district are for political education work. The Memorial Sign for Franz Scheider was then attached to his former home.