Ludwig Ernst August Schneidhuber (8 May 1887 – 30 June 1934) was a German military officer and an SA-Obergruppenführer in the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi Party's paramilitary organization.

[4] He belonged to the Citizens' Defense, a far-right paramilitary organization until 1921, and joined the Nazi Party for the first time that year.

Following the appointment of Ernst Röhm as the new SA-Stabschef on 1 January 1931, the SA commands were reorganized and the posts of Deputy-OSAF were eliminated.

[8] On 1 July 1933, Schneidhuber's command was renamed SA-Obergruppe VII, and consisted of the three SA-Gruppen, Bayern Ostmark, Franken and Hochland.

[3] Alarmed by the growing size and power of the SA, and seeking to alleviate similar concerns on the part of the German military high command, Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler decided to launch a purge against Röhm and his inner circle in an operation that became known as the Night of the Long Knives.

The local Nazi Party Gauleiter and Bavarian Interior Minister, Adolf Wagner, had arrested Schneidhuber.

[11] They were taken to Stadelheim Prison where, later that day, they were shot by members of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler under then SS-Gruppenführer Sepp Dietrich, together with four other SA leaders: SA-Obergruppenführer Edmund Heines, SA-Gruppenführer Hans Hayn, SA-Brigadeführer Peter von Heydebreck and SA-Standartenführer Hans Erwin Graf von Spreti-Weilbach.

[12] Schneidhuber's corpse, along with those of the other men were initially buried in a wooden box at Munich's Friedhof am Perlacher Forst [de] on the night of 1 July 1934.

According to a contemporaneous report in The New York Times, a floral wreath with the words: "To Our Dear Father From His Sons" was removed from the grave a few days later on the orders of the authorities and carted away in a wheelbarrow.