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Walter Schultze (1 January 1894 – 16 August 1979) was a German physician, state health official, Nazi Party politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Lecturers League in Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1944. He was also a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS), attaining the rank of SS- Gruppenführer. After the end of the Second World War, he was arrested and charged with assisting in the mass murder of hundreds of disabled people in Bavaria under the Aktion T4 program. After lengthy delays and multiple legal proceedings, he was convicted and sentenced to four years at hard labor in 1960.
Schultze rejoined the Party after its re-establishment in 1925 and became the Ortsgruppenleiter (local group leader) in Speyer. However, because his records were lost, he was forced to reapply. He was issued Party membership number 99,822 in October 1928. After additional medical training, Schultze became a specialist in surgery in 1926. From 1926 to 1931, he served as a medical officer for the Palatinate Agricultural Trade Association in Speyer and also served as a city councilor. In 1929, he was a founding member of the National Socialist German Doctors' League. In 1931, he returned to Munich as a medical officer, and later the senior medical officer, for the Agricultural Trade Association of Upper Bavaria. From July 1931 to April 1932, he was the regimental medical officer for SA- Standarte 50 in Munich and also was named Deputy Reich Physician of the SA with the rank of SA- Sanitäts-Standartenführer. On 1 July 1932, he advanced to SA- Sanitäts-Gruppenführer, and served until 25 August 1933 as the Gruppe physician of the SA- Gruppe Hochland in Munich. On 24 April 1932, Schultze was elected as a Nazi Party deputy to the Landtag of Bavaria where he served until its dissolution by the Nazis in October 1933. Walter Schultze biography in the Reichstag Members Database
In July 1935, he was appointed to the post for which he is best known, Reichsdozentenführer (Reich Lecturer Leader) of the National Socialist German Lecturers League (NSDDB), whose task was the political control and ideological indoctrination of university professors. During his tenure, Schultze played a key part in implementing Nazi racial policies, and was responsible for driving Jewish lecturers out of German universities. He asserted in a speech to the NSDDB in June 1939 that the success of German universities depended on having "the type of the combat-ready political, National Socialist fighters who regard their 'Volk' as the supreme good". Adherence to Nazi political ideology, rather than to independent scholarship or subject matter expertise, was to be the guiding principle of the university community. Schultze also delivered a speech at the University of Strasbourg on 23 November 1941, in which he stated the institution's goal as: "Whatever is un-German in the thinking of our people must be eradicated". After nearly nine years as the head of the NSDDB, Schultze was removed from this position by the Supreme Party Court in June 1944 for an abuse of office to the detriment of a Party comrade.
In his paramilitary service, Schultze transferred from the SA to the Schutzstaffel (SS) on 13 September 1936 (SS number 276,831) with the rank of SS- Oberführer and was promoted to SS- Brigadeführer on 12 September 1937. Dienstaltersliste der Schutzstaffel, 1 December 1937, pp. 14–15, number 100 He attained the rank of SS- Gruppenführer on 30 January 1943. Walter Schultze short biography (in Polish) At the April 1938 parliamentary election, Schultze was elected from the Party electoral list as a deputy to the Reichstag and retained this seat until the fall of the Nazi regime. Walter Schultze entry in the Reichstag Members Database
Walter Schultze died on 16 August 1979 in Krailling, near Munich.
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