Edmund Heines was born on the 21st of July 1897 in the city of Munich, then part of the German Empire. During the war, he was deployed to the Western Front. In 1915, he sustained a severe head wound that forced him to convalesce for some time. He was recognized for bravery and devotion to duty, receiving military decorations such as the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class, and achieved the rank of reserve lieutenant by 1918. In March 1920, Heines participated in what is known as the Kapp Putsch, a failed coup attempt by extreme right-wing factions who aimed to topple the republican government in Germany and restore an authoritarian regime. After the putsch collapsed, Heines and his associates took cover in various parts of Germany. A few months after the failed coup a violent incident occurred, one that deeply marked his reputation and legal standing: the so-called Fememord of Willi Schmidt.. On the 22nd of January 1928, Heines was arrested in Schongau for his involvement in Willi Schmidt’s murder. He was transferred to Stettin – today’s Polish Szczecin – as the main defendant in the trial for Schmidt’s murder. The prosecution demanded the death penalty for Schmidt’s murder, but the judgement of the Stettin court was 15 years in prison for manslaughter, later lowered to 5 years. At the end, on the 14th of May 1929, Heines was released from custody by a decision of the Stettin court on a bail of 5000 Reichsmarks.
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