Heinz Pernet (5 September 1896 – 30 June 1973) was a German military officer and Erich Ludendorff's stepson. He was a top figure in the Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923. He was among the nine men tried and convicted along with Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff in 1924. He later became an SA-Brigadeführer. Early life Pernet was the son of Margarethe Schmidt and her husband Karl Maria Anton Robert Pernet. After their divorce, Margarethe took care of Heinz and his two brothers and a sister. In 1909, she married officer Erich Ludendorff, who thus became Pernet's stepfather. From 1914 to 1918, Pernet participated in the First World War, where he served as a pilot, as did both his brothers, who were shot down and killed in the course of the war. Postwar, Hitler putsch and process After the war, Pernet was a member of the Guard Cavalry Rifle Division until the spring of 1923, when he moved to Munich. There he came into contact with the NSDAP through his stepfather, an early supporter of the party and acquainted to Adolf Hitler. In November 1923, Pernet took part in the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. On the evening of 8 November he participated in the occupation of the Bürgerbräukeller and then picked up his stepfather in his villa, together with Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter. On Hitler's orders, Pernet seized large sums of money (1,460 trillion Reichsmark) in the Jewish printing house Mülthaler and Parcus on the night of 8-9 November in order to distribute them to the putschists in support of the coup d'état. On the morning of 9 November 1923 Pernet marched to the Feldherrnhalle in the second row of the putschists (behind Hitler, Ludendorff, Scheubner-Richter, Hermann Goering, Kurt Neubauer, and Ulrich Graf). After the defeat of the coup by the provincial police, Pernet was able to flee. In the spring of 1924 he surrendered himself to the Bavarian authorities. From 26 February to 1 April 1924, the criminal trial for high treason took place before the People's Court of Munich I. The court acknowledged mitigating circumstances. Under the presiding judge Georg Neithardt he was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for aiding and abetting treason, but served only 4 months before being pardoned and released. Later life From 15 September 1924 to 31 March 1926 Pernet worked as an office worker at the Motor Technology Society in Munich. He