a Lutheran pastor who in various ways played a quietly heroic role during the Hitler years. The Schnellers also had a son: Helmut Schneller (1922–2010) later made a reputation for himself as an author in the German Democratic Republic. He worked between 1953 and 1990 as "cabaret author" at East Berlin's Distel Cabaret Theatre, and liked to claim that his work at the cabaret was primarily motivated (till 1990) by the constant game he played with the censor. Legacy In the German Democratic Republic, which functioned as a Soviet sponsored separate version of Germany between 1949 and 1989/90, there was an Ernst Schneller Street or an Ernst Schneller Square or an Ernst Schneller School or college in many towns and cities. There was an Ernst Schneller Barracks in Berlin-Alt-Treptow, as well as a special home for looking after and monitoring troubled children and young people in Eilenburg named after him. On 3 September 1973 a company of "missile troops" ("Geschoßwerfertruppenteil") in the National People's Army was assigned his name. Many of these very public buildings named after Ernst Schneller were renamed following the 1990 reunification, but there are still plenty of towns and cities left in the former East Germany with their own "Ernst Schneller Straße" ("Ernst Schneller Street"). These include Leipzig, Halle, Erfurt, Jena and Heidenau. A 150m² ocean-yacht used between 1954 and 1989/90 by the "August Lütgens GTS naval school" also carried his name. The sports-yacht was subsequently sold to the municipality of Anklam and renamed "Arms of Anklam". The Ernst Schneller Medal for sporting achievement in the "Sport and Technology Society" ("Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik"/ GTS) was inaugurated in 1961. In 1977, the East German Television Service ("Deutscher Fernsehfunk" / DFF) produced a biographical film about Schneller. Horst Schulze played the part of Ernst Schneller. The part of his wife Hilde was played by a leading star of East German cinema, Renate Blume. Schneller was featured again in the 1986 DFF biographical film about Ernst Thälmann. This time Schneller was portrayed by Wilfried Pucher. In September 1992 a Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag was erected in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin. Ernst Schneller is one of the 96 commemorated on it. On 11 October 2014 the memorial piece "Klang der Erinnerung" ("Voice of remembering") by arts student Eva Susanne Schmidhuber was unveiled at the Sachsenhausen Memorial Centre. Schmidhuber's work commemorates 27