What author wrote a novel, published in 1961, featuring a minor fictional character named Schiesskopf?
Scheisskopf: Scheisskopf is a minor fictional character in the novel "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller, who is promoted through the ranks from Lieutenant to First Lieutenant, Colonel and finally to Lieutenant General. Catch-22:  He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961.
Joseph Heller