Life
Heines served in World War I as a Kriegsfreiwilliger and was discharged in 1918 as a lieutenant. From 1919 to December, 1922, he served as leader of a unit in Freikorps Roßbach and later as Gruppenführer of the Munchen Ortsgruppe. In December, 1922, he transferred to the Nazi Party and the SA (stormtroopers). In 1929, he was convicted of murder, but soon received an amnesty. That same year, he was appointed to temporarily serve as the head of a Nazi district in the Upper Palatinate region. In 1930, Heines became a member of the Reichstag for the district of Liegnitz. From 1931 to 1934, he served as an SA leader in Silesia while simultaneously working as Ernst Röhm's deputy. In 1933, Heines was on the Prussian privy council, and in May of the same year he became head of police in Breslau.
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