Classes and positions used in the Sturmabteilung, a paramilitary organisation of the Nazi Party
Stabschef SA
Earlier (left) and later (right) command flag
Best known officeholder Ernst Röhm 5 January 1931 – 1 July 1934
Sturmabteilung
Status
Commanding officer of a paramilitary organisation
Member of
Oberste SA-Führung
Reports to
Oberste SA-Führer
Appointer
Adolf Hitler
Formation
October 1929
First holder
Otto Wagener
Final holder
Wilhelm Schepmann
Abolished
5 May 1945
Deputy
Stabsführer
Stabschef ([ʃtaːps.ʃɛf], lit.'Chief of staff') was an office and paramilitary rank in the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary stormtroopers associated with the Nazi Party. It was a rank and position held by the operating chief of the SA. The rank was equivalent to the rank of Generaloberst in the German Army and to General in the U.S. Army.[1]
Stabschef ([ʃtaːps.ʃɛf], lit. 'Chief of staff') was an office and paramilitary rank in the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary stormtroopers associated...
the commander of the Sturmabteilung ("SA") who succeeded Ernst Röhm as Stabschef and Reichsleiter. After he died from injuries received in a car accident...
Stabschef-SA who was generally accepted as the Commander of the SA, acting in Hitler's name. The following personnel held the position of Stabschef-SA:...
June 1934) was a German Nazi politician and Deputy to Ernst Röhm, the Stabschef of the Sturmabteilung (SA). Heines was one of the earliest members of...
June 1894 – 26 July 1970) was an SA general in Nazi Germany and the last Stabschef (Chief of Staff) of the original Nazi paramilitary branch, the SA. Schepmann...
duration of the group's existence. After 1931, those who held the rank of Stabschef, such as Ernst Röhm, were accepted as the commanders of the SA. The Oberster...
SA—actually a party division—was given quasi-governmental authority and their Stabschef became a cabinet minister without portfolio. By virtue of the 30 January...
President of Breslau and an SA-Obergruppenführer, he was the Deputy to Stabschef Ernst Röhm from 1931 and was executed during the Night of the Long Knives...
(SS) and Gestapo to purge the entire SA leadership. Hitler targeted SA Stabschef (Chief of Staff) Ernst Röhm and other SA leaders who—along with a number...
be said that both Adolf Hitler as Oberster SA-Führer and Ernst Röhm as Stabschef SA outranked the most senior SS position of Reichsführer-SS. Following...
officially still considered a sub-organisation of the SA and answerable to the Stabschef (SA Chief of Staff), it was also during this time that Himmler began to...
Wagener Wagener signing unconditional surrender papers in Rhodes in 1945 Stabschef of the Sturmabteilung In office October 1929 – 31 December 1930 Leader...
Staff into an actual rank. The insignia for Röhm's new rank (known as Stabschef) consisted of a wreathed star which was designed after that of a Bolivian...
America to take over the day-to-day running of the SA with the title of SA-Stabschef. While Hitler thought that this would bind the SA more firmly to him,...
execution by Hitler during the Night of the Long Knives. A former SA-Stabschef (Chief of Staff), he was shot on 1 July 1934 in cell 70. Peter von Heydebreck...
the real commander and handled day-to-day administration. During 1934, Stabschef-SA Ernst Röhm continued to push for greater political influence for his...
the German Reich. The Deputy Führer of the Party (Rudolf Hess) and the Stabschef of the SA (Ernst Röhm), were made ex officio members of the Reich government...
Leutnant der Polizei Sturmabteilung (SA) No insignia Oberster SA-Führer Stabschef SA SA-Obergruppenführer SA-Gruppenführer SA-Brigadeführer SA-Oberführer...
related to Markus Laubenthal. Thomas Wiegold. "Deutscher General wird Stabschef bei der US Army in Europa". Augen Geradeaus. Jad Sleiman. "In historic...
Röhm to return to Germany from Bolivia to effectively run the SA as its Stabschef (Chief of Staff), since Hitler had no interest in running the day-to-day...
himself took over as Reichsorganisationsleiter and installed Ley as his Stabschef (Chief of Staff). The positions of Reichsinspecteur and Landesinspekteur...
certain other Nazi Party or government office holders, among whom were the Stabschef of the SA, the Reichsführer-SS, certain other high ranking SA and SS officers...