Emil Sembach (April 2, 1891 – July 1, 1934) was an SS-Oberführer (Senior Colonel) attached to the SS headquarters of Silesia. He had joined the Nazi Party in 1925, and received a promotion the SS in 1931. Biography Emil Sembach was born on 2 April 1891, near Grein, Upper Austria. Education After the studying school, he with the High School to a humanistic school in Coburg graduated, afterwards joined Emil Sembach as a cadet in a Magdeburg Artillery Regiment one. Career At the First World War took it as a battery commander in part. From 1919 to 1921 was he a member of a volunteer corps to fight in the Baltic states involved. Then earned it until 1932 his livelihood in commercial professions, most recently as assistant manager in Berlin. In 1934, after being caught by Reinhard Heydrich's Sicherheitsdienst (SD), for embezzlement and also for having a homosexual relationship with Curt Wittje, he was expelled from the party and the SS. Fearing for his life he asked Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick for protection, but his protection could not save him when on the Night of the Long Knives Sembach was arrested on the orders of his rival Udo von Woyrsch, and the next day under the command of SS-Obersturmführer (1st Lieutenant) Paul Exner, Sembach was taken to the Giant Mountains and executed on the orders of von Woyrsch. References 1891 births 1934 deaths People from Lower Austria 20th-century Austrian people SS-Oberführer Victims of the Night of the Long Knives German Lutherans Austrian Lutherans German people of Austrian descent Members of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany Austrian people executed by Nazi Germany Executed Austrian Nazis 20th-century Freikorps personnel 20th-century Lutherans German Army personnel of World War I Nazis executed by Nazi Germany Nazis executed by firearm People executed by Nazi Germany by firearm