Schneider (Schutzstaffel)

Schneider was a high-ranking officer of the Nazi Schutzstaffel during World War II who had been instructed by Adolf Hitler to personally examine all of Johann Schmidt's HYDRA facilities. However, as Schneider had insulted Schmidt and threatened to shut down his work with HYDRA, they were then betrayed and vaporized by the enraged Schmidt.
==Biography==
===Serving Adolf Hitler===
====Johann Schmidt's Betrayal====
Schneider joined Adolf Hitler's following the end of , being among the first 100,000 Nazis in service with an uninterrupted service record, and became an officer of the Schutzstaffel. Achieving the rank of Obergruppenführer (), Schneider participated in multiple battles, earning several medals. In 1943, Schneider and his two colleagues were sent by Adolf Hitler to Johann Schmidt's base to question him about the progress in developing advanced weapons for the Third Reich. During the tour over the base, Schneider expressed Hitler's loss of faith in Schmidt, saying that "the Red Skull" had been indulged long enough.
Provoked, Schmidt showed Schneider and his colleagues his Tesseract powered cannon. However, they weren't impressed, and Schneider himself said that Schmidt was mad for claiming that he harnessed the power of the gods. When Schneider's subordinate officer Hutter saw Berlin marked as one of Schmidt's targets on a map, Schmidt used the cannon to vaporize his three visitors.
===Legacy===
====Planning the Time Heist====
In 2023, Schneider's position as a high-ranking Schutzstaffel member and his death resulting from the Tesseract was noted by the Avengers when they studied the history of the Infinity Stones in preparation for the Time Heist.Avengers: Endgame
==Equipment==
===Weapons===
*: Schneider was armed with the standard pistol used by members of the armed forces of Nazi Germany.
===Other Equipment===
*Uniform: During World War II, Schneider used an official black SS uniform, wearing the rank insignia of (). He wore several military and political decorations on his uniform, including the , the ribbon, the ribbon, the ribbon, the ribbon, the , and the .
==Relationships==
===Allies===
*Nazi Germany
**Adolf Hitler † - Commander-in-Chief 
**Roeder † - Colleague
**Hutter † - Colleague
===Enemies===
*Johann Schmidt/Red Skull - Former Colleague turned Enemy and Killer
==Trivia==
*Schneider was named after , a former member of the pre-Techno band .
==References==
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