on Hoffmann card 86, (address still at Amalienstr. 25 in München), unmailed but with biographical data noted on reverse, condition 2.
Heines fled to München and in 1922 took over command of the local group of Freikorps Roßbach. In December 1922, the entire local group transferred to the SA; Heines assumed command of the Second Battalion in the München SA Regiment and also became a member of the NSDAP (membership no. 78). Due to his participation in Hitler's attempted putsch in November 1923, Heines was sentenced in 1924 to 15 months fortress detention. Imprisoned together with Hitler in Landsberg, Heines was released early in September 1924. At that time, the SA and NSDAP were banned; Heines assumed command of the Second Battalion of the München Frontbann Regiment, a substitute organization for the SA.
After the re-authorization of the NSDAP in 1925, Heines rejoined both the party and the SA. In the SA he had attained the rank of Standartenführer (Colonel) by 1926 and appeared as a Reich speaker for the NSDAP. From 1925 to August 1926, Heines was Federal Leader of the Schill defense youth organization and directed the Schill sports distribution. The Schilljugend functioned as the youth organization of the NSDAP after Hitler transferred responsibility for the party's youth affairs to Heines on May 6, 1925. On May 31, 1927, Heines was expelled from the NSDAP and the SA as leader of a rebellion by the München SA. From the perspective of the München SA, the party was too moderate and too bureaucratic. According to the Social Democratic Vorwärts newspaper, Heines was “one of the most reprehensible figures in the München Hitler era.”
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