Paul Schulz (5 February 1898 Stettin – 31 August 1963 Laichingen) was a German military officer and Nazi Party official perhaps best known as a leader of the Black Reichswehr in the 1920s. Early years Schulz entered non-commissioned officers' school in Potsdam in 1912. Wounded several times in World War I, he was promoted to Leutnant in the spring of 1918 because of bravery and outstanding performance. After the end of the war Schulz joined the Freikorps. He took part in the fighting in the Baltic States in a battalion commanded by Bruno Ernst Buchrucker. He became Buchrucker's adjutant in the Reichswehr and was promoted to Oberleutnant. Because of their support for the Kapp Putsch in March 1920, Schulz and Buchrucker both were discharged from the army. Black Reichswehr Schulz was reinstated by the Ministry of the Reichswehr under private contract as part of the so-called Black Reichswehr. This was a paramilitary organization in the Weimar Republic that was used to provide additional manpower reserves for the Reichswehr, in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Schulz was commissioned to set up a work detachment in Küstrin. At the end of 1922, Schulz moved to the Wehrkreis (Military District) III in Berlin, where he set up other work groups for the Black Reichswehr. During the Küstrin Putsch on 1 October 1923, Schulz was arrested but ultimately not charged. Schulz was next involved with the management of the "Feme Organization" in Prussia. In this capacity he planned and organized the murder of left-wing politicians and other alleged "enemies of the Reich" by members of the Black Reichswehr. Because of his involvement in these Feme murders, Schulz was given the nickname "Feme-Schulz". In March 1925 Schulz was arrested for inciting several murders. Brought to trial, he was sentenced to death on 26 March 1927. Just before his scheduled execution, Schulz's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by President Paul von Hindenburg in February 1928. To large parts of the German right wing he was considered a martyr. While in jail, Schulz was in contact with numerous right wing politicians, including Gregor Strasser of the Nazi Party. In May 1928, the 12 newly elected Nazi members of the Reichstag called for his release. A political amnesty was granted in October 1930 and Schulz obtained his freedom. He joined the Nazi Party on 24 October 1930 and was assigned to Strasser’s Organisationsabteilung (Organization Department) at