Liliputin- 5111

Facing the music for something I have not done at the order of the biggest music lover of all times was the tragic irony of my life ... "
Willi Schmid

Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
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If you face the music, you put yourself in a position where you will be criticized or punished for something you have done. Sooner or later, I'm going to have to face the music.

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Willi Schmid
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Born Wilhelm Eduard Schmid
April 12, 1893
German Empire
Died June 30, 1934 (aged 41)
Nazi Germany
Nationality German
Occupation Music critic
Known for Being killed during the Night of the Long Knives by mistake
Spouse Kate Eva
Wilhelm Eduard Schmid (April 12, 1893 – June 30, 1934), better known as Willi Schmid, was a German music critic, and an accidental victim of the Night of the Long Knives in a case of mistaken identity.

Biography
Born in 1893, Willi Schmid served in the Imperial Army in World War I, during which he was wounded in the stomach. A practicing musician, he studied music under Christian Duebereiner, and founded the Munich Viol Quartet. He was also a well-respected music critic and wrote for the Muenchener Neueste Nachrichten.

He was killed by the Nazi SS during the Night of the Long Knives because his name was similar to one of the intended targets, apparently either an SA leader named Willi Schmidt, or an associate of Otto Strasser named Ludwig Schmitt. William Shirer's account in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich mentions that Schmid was playing the cello in his study, while his wife was preparing supper and his three children were playing in the adjacent room, when Nazi agents knocked on the door and took him away. His body was sent to his widow in a sealed casket four days later, with written instructions from the SS not to open it under any circumstances.

Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess visited the family a few days later to express condolences for the mistake and offer his widow a pension. Schmid's widow, Kate Eva (nie Tietz), later emigrated to the United States (with the help of the covert anti-Nazi activist Fritz Wiedemann, who was with Hess during his visit) and became a US citizen in 1944. She died there in 1985.

Schmid's friend, the philosopher Oswald Spengler, commemorated him in a poem and letter in Reden und Aufsaetze (Collected Essays, published in 1937). Schmid's daughter Duscha went on to marry the Austro-American theoretical physicist Victor Weisskopf, and later wrote a book about her father, Willi Schmid: A Life in Germany.