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13 unusual facts about Sturmabteilung


Bad Wiessee

Bad Wiessee is notorious as the scene of the key events within the Night of the Long Knives, 30 June 1934, when Hitler and the Schutzstaffel (SS) purged the leadership of the Sturmabteilung (SA), many of whom were staying at the resort.

Erich Zepler

Their friendship was remarkable, since Kraemer was a member of the SA, and possibly of the SS.

FT Starnberg 09

In 1933, with the rise of the Nazis to power, FT 09 was outlawed and its assets confiscated and handed over to the SA.

Johannes Hassebroek

Hassebroek initially continued as a member of the Bismarckbund before switching to the Sturmabteilung as a 19-year-old, joining the Nazi Party the following year (#256,527).

Karl Schiller

Karl Schiller joined the paramilitary Stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung) of the NSDAP in 1933 and the party itself in 1937.

Martin Hoop

Very probably the secret state police (Gestapo) or storm troopers (Sturmabteilung) took him into custody because of his political activity.

Military career of Adolf Hitler

The brown Nazi Party uniform that Hitler is most often associated with was a paramilitary uniform of the SA and denoted Hitler's position as Oberste SA-Führer.

Richard Hüttig

By 1930, Hüttig was leader of the Häuserschutzstaffeln ("house protection squad") in his neighbourhood in Charlottenburg, which had been set up to ward off Brown Shirt terror raids.

Storm troopers

Sturmabteilung - A paramilitary organisation that aided Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s

Sturmabteilung

Hitler, with an eye always to helping the party to grow through propaganda, convinced the leadership committee to invest in an advertisement in the Münchener Beobachter (later renamed the Völkischer Beobachter) for a mass meeting in the Hofbräuhaus, to be held on 16 October 1919.

Triefenstein

Only after Kristallnacht (9 November 1938), indeed, on Christmas Day that year, did SA men burn the house of worship down.

Walter Schütz

He was arrested by the Nazi-SA in February or March 1933 and tortured and murdered in the SA headquarters of Königsberg.

Wilhelm Karpenstein

Karpenstein however, despite not holding left-wing economic ideas, was too weak to control the dissident sentiments emerging from the Sturmabteilung in Pomerania, which was one of their power bases.


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18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Horst Wessel

The Division was named after the SA or (Sturmabteilung) hero Horst Wessel, a German Nazi known for being the author of lyrics to the song "Die Fahne hoch" (Horst Wessel Lied) and for being glorified by the Nazi regime as a martyr of the early years of the Nazi party.

Adolf Hühnlein

All race car drivers were required to become members of the NSKK, which Himmler had moved into the SS following the curtailing of the SA.

Arno Breitmeyer

This propaganda work has many pictures and information about the various Nazi organizations, i.e. SA, NSKK, Bund Deutscher Mädel, Hitler Jugend, etc.

Franz Pfeffer von Salomon

Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (February 19, 1888 in Düsseldorf - April 12, 1968 in Munich), also known as Franz von Pfeffer, was the first commander of the SA upon its re-establishment in 1925, following its temporary abolition in 1923 after the abortive Beer Hall Putsch.

Fritz Emil Irrgang

Fritz Emil Irrgang (born May 10 1890 in Linderode - died December 16 1951 in Northeim) was a German politician and member of the Nazi Party and the Sturmabteilung (SA).

Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores

On April 18, 1997, the Group formally changed its trading name from Administraciones Bancarias S.A. to Sociedad A.B. S.A. On January 8, 1998, the Group once again changed its name to Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. Later that year, Grupo Aval introduced an Online banking platform, which was integrated within the Group's major banking subsidiaries, Banco de Bogotá, Banco de Occidente, Banco Popular and Banco AV Villas.

Gustav Adolf Scheel

Gustav Adolf Scheel (November 22, 1907 in Rosenberg, Baden – March 25, 1979 in Hamburg) was a German physician and "multifunctionary" in the time of the Third Reich (SA and SS member, leader of the National Socialist Students' Federation, Organizer of the SD in the southwest, Superior SS and Police Leader in Salzburg, Gauleiter in Salzburg from November 1941).

Hainewalde concentration camp

On March 27, 1933, the SA established a protective custody camp at Hainewalde Castle in Saxony.

Hanns Martin Schleyer

In 1939, Schleyer married Waltrude Ketterer (1916–2008), daughter of the physician, city councillor of Munich and SA-Obergruppenführer Emil Ketterer.

Hans Schwerte

In 1933 he did voluntary work with the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst (a precursor of the Reichsarbeitsdienst) in Jedwilleiten at the Neman River delta and joined the SA.

Hans von Tschammer und Osten

This lavishly illustrated work had many pictures and information about the various Nazi organizations, i.e. SA, NSKK, Bund Deutscher Mädel, Hitler Jugend, etc.

Herbert von Bose

In his memoirs Inside the Third Reich, Albert Speer relates how he was ordered to rebuild the Borsig Palace and transfer the Sturmabteilung (SA) leadership in and have Papen's staff out within twenty-four hours.

Hitler Youth

Based in Munich, Bavaria, it served to train and recruit future members of the Sturmabteilung (or "Storm Regiment"), the adult paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party.

Karl von Eberstein

Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Eberstein (14 January 1894 in Halle – 10 February 1979 in Tegernsee) was a member of the German nobility, early member of the Nazi Party, the SA, and the SS (introducing Reinhard Heydrich to Heinrich Himmler in July 1931).

Strasserism

According to historian Ian Kershaw, "the leaders of the SA which included Gregor Strasser did not have another vision of the future of Germany or another politic to propose."

Waldemar Magunia

Waldemar Magunia (born December 8, 1902 in Königsberg (Prussia) - died February 16, 1974 in Oldenburg in Holstein) was the leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA) in East Prussia and Commissioner General in Kiev.

Wolfgang Jörchel

In May 1934, he became a sports leader in the Hitler Youth and also joined the SA remaining an active member until June 1935, when he left only to later join the SS-VT in October 1935, with the rank of Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant).