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Ernst Röhm (or Roehm) (November 28, 1887, Munich; July 1, 1934, Munich-Stadelheim prison, murdered) was a German military officer and commander and co-founder of the Nazi Sturmabteilung or "stormtroopers". Ernst Röhm File links The following pages link to this file: Ernst Röhm Stabschef (SA) ...
Ernst Röhm File links The following pages link to this file: Ernst Röhm Stabschef (SA) ...
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Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. ...
July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ...
1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. ...
Hitler addressing SA members in the late 1920s The Sturmabteilung (SA, German for Storm Division and is usually translated as stormtroops or stormtroopers) functioned as a paramilitary organisation of the NSDAP – the German Nazi party. ...
Early Nazi years Röhm served as a career officer with the Bavarian Army during World War I. He held the rank of Oberleutnant with the Bavarian 10th Infantry Regiment and was severely wounded in the face in September of 1914 at Lorraine, France. He later was promoted to Hauptmann. With an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ...
Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...
Oberleutnant is a rank of the German military which dates from the early 19th century. ...
Capital Metz Area 23,547 km² Regional President Jean-Pierre Masseret Population - 2005 estimate - 1999 census - Density 2,310,376 98/km² Arrondissements 19 Cantons 157 Communes 2,337 Départements Meurthe-et-Moselle Meuse Moselle Vosges Lorraine ( German: Lothringen) is a historical area in present-day northeast France. ...
Captain is both a nautical term and a military rank. ...
Following the end of the war in 1918, he joined the Epp Freikorps, one of the many private militias that had formed in Munich as a reaction against the Weimar Republic. In 1920, he became a Nazi-party member and helped organize the Sturmabteilung (SA). In 1923, after the failed Beer Hall Putsch, Röhm spent 15 months in prison during which time he became a close, personal friend of Adolf Hitler. 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
The designation of Freikorps (German for Free Corps) was originally applied to voluntary armies. ...
A militia is a group of citizens organized to provide paramilitary service. ...
Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. ...
The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic (Pronounced Vye-Mar, and in German it is known as the Weimarer Republik). It is named after the city of Weimar, where a national assembly convened to produce a new constitution after the German monarchy...
1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ...
The Nazi swastika The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ...
Hitler addressing SA members in the late 1920s The Sturmabteilung (SA, German for Storm Division and is usually translated as stormtroops or stormtroopers) functioned as a paramilitary organisation of the NSDAP – the German Nazi party. ...
The Beer Hall Putsch occurred in the evening of Thursday, November 8 to early afternoon of Friday, November 9, 1923 when the nascent Nazi partys Führer Adolf Hitler, the popular World War I General Erich Ludendorff, and other leaders of the Kampfbund, unsuccessfully tried to gain power in Munich...
Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889–April 30, 1945) was the Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Imperial chancellor) of Germany from 1933 to his death. ...
In 1924, after Röhm was released from prison, he worked with Hitler to rebuild the Nazi Party, but several intense differences developed between the two. Röhm resigned from the Nazi Party in 1925 and went to Bolivia to serve as a military advisor. The German government sponsored Röhm's position, and he was promoted to Oberst in the German Reichswehr. ...
The Reichswehr (literally National Defence or National Militia) formed the military organization of Germany from 1918 until 1935, when the government rebranded it as the Wehrmacht (Defence Force). ...
Stormtrooper commander In 1930, Adolf Hitler personally assumed command of the stormtroopers as the new Oberster SA-Führer. Hitler sent a personal request to Röhm to return to Germany, offering Röhm the position of Stabschef (Chief of Staff) of the entire Sturmabteilung. Röhm accepted the offer in 1931, introducing radical new ideas into the SA and staffing the senior SA leadership with his close friends and personal associates. Rumors also abounded that the SA command staff sponsored homosexual parties, and Röhm's conduct as the Stabschef was soon under heavy criticism. Eventually he was outed by the leftist press. Hermann Göring as the SA Commander in 1923 Oberste SA-Führer was a title used by the Sturmabteilung from 1920 to 1945. ...
For other uses of the term Stabschef please refer to Chief of Staff Stabschef (Chief of Staff) was a paramilitary rank in the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary stormtroopers associated with the Nazi movement. ...
Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ...
Outing is the practice of deliberately making public another persons concealed or barely-concealed sexual identity or orientation, without that persons consent. ...
Denouncement and death The main function of the SA was to protect the party leadership and to attack political opponents such as their nemesis organization, the communist Red Front. Through violence and intimidation, the SA helped the Nazis become more powerful than the other political parties in Munich. However, when Hitler began to campaign for the chancellorship of Germany, he began to marginalize the SA in order to improve his image and in response to criticisms by establishment conservatives. While Hitler had been personally rather fond of Röhm, he came under pressure to reduce Röhm's influence. German military leaders were unhappy with Röhm's proposal that the German army be absorbed into the larger SA, and the industrialists that supported Hitler were concerned over Röhm's socialist leanings. The head of government in Germany has traditionally been called Kanzler (Chancellor). ...
A nations army is its military, or more specifically, all of its land forces. ...
Industrialist mainly refers to a person who takes a leading or visionary role in the process of building up an industry over a long time. ...
The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ...
In spite of the pressure applied on him, Hitler postponed his decision to do away with his favourite right-hand man to the very end. He appealed desperately to Röhm not to press for a socialist 'revolution' that would lead to an upheaval of Germany at all levels. Only when the differences were irreconcilable and things were getting dangerously out of hand did Hitler finally make up his mind that Röhm must go.
The final straw came in 1934, just before President Hindenburg's death. As the president lay dying, many groups began to plot in order to place their own respective candidates in the presidential seat. According to William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a strong group of conservatives wanted the return of Crown Prince Wilhelm, the son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, to Germany as President. Hitler, wanting to avoid this, met with the main military chiefs on the "Pocket Battleship" Deutschland and promised to begin rearming Germany in exchange for their support of his candidacy as president. As a bonus, he also promised them to get rid of Röhm. This led to Röhm's execution without trial during the purge of the SA (the so-called Night of the Long Knives (30 June-1 July 1934)), which execution was legalized after the fact in the Law Regarding Measures of State Self-Defense on 13 July. 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Reichspräsident (Reich President) was the German head of state during the period of the 1919- 1933 Weimar Republic and the title was later briefly revived in 1945. ...
Paul von Hindenburg President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg (full name Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg) (October 2, 1847 – August 2, 1934) was a German Field Marshal and statesman. ...
William Lawrence Shirer (1904 - 1993), U.S. historian & journalist. ...
Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ...
A Crown Prince or Crown Princess is the heir or heiress apparent to the throne in a royal or imperial monarchy. ...
Crown Prince Wilhelm Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and Prussia (6 May 1882 - 20 July 1951), Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst Kronprinz von Preussen, was born 6 May 1882 at Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Germany. ...
Kaiser is a German title meaning emperor, derived from the Roman title of Caesar, as is the Slavic title of Czar. ...
Wilhelm II of Prussia and Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert von Hohenzollern (January 27, 1859 - June 4, 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and the last King (König) of Prussia from 1888 - 1918. ...
The Federal President (German: Bundespräsident, formerly Reichspräsident) is Germanys head of state. ...
Deutschland (Germany), later re-named Lützow, was the first German large armoured ship built after World War I. Its keel was laid down in February 1929, at the Deustche Werke shipyard in Kiel; it was launched in May 1931. ...
A trial is, in the most general sense, a test, usually a test to see whether something does or does not meet a given standard. ...
The Night of the Long Knives (1934) (German, Nacht der langen Messer), also known as Reichsmordwoche (Imperial Week of Murder) or the Blood Purge, was a mass murder (purge) of potential political rivals in the Sturmabteilung paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. ...
June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining, as the last day in June. ...
July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ...
1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Law Regarding Measures of State Self-Defense (in German: Gesetz über Maßnahmen zur Staatsnotwehr) was issued by the Reich government on July 3, 1934 to post-legalize the killings of Ernst Röhm and many others in the so-called Night of the Long Knives (June 30, 1934). ...
July 13th is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining. ...
One of Röhm's famous quotes is "All revolutions devour their own children".
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