[2][3] As the military commander in Serbia, on 31 May 1941 he ordered the registration of the Jews and Gypsies, who had to be registered and carry a yellow armband as a means of identification.

[1] This order also contained a ban on the free exercise of professions and exclusion from the public service and private companies.

[4] The Nazi measure to register Jewish assets was also carried out to facilitate the later "aryanization" (de-Jewification).

[4] With these orders by Schröder, anti-Jewish persecution measures were standardized in the entire occupied Serbia.

[4] Schröder died in the Hohenlychen SS hospital, where he had been transported on 23 July after an airplane accident in Belgrade.