 At first he was stationed in Poland and Belarus.In late August 1941, after the invasion of the Soviet Union, he was transferred to the "Landeswehr" Battalion 898 in Vilnius, then part of the Reichskommissariat Ostland German occupation zone.Schmid was reassigned to an office called Feldkommandantur 814, whose personnel were charged with collecting German soldiers who had been separated from their units and reassigning them.