SA stick - what is it?

[torstenbel]

This photo from one of the Heinrich Hoffmann books on Hitler is titled 'The Fuehrer also used to carry the SA stick then'. What is the SA stick? Cheers, Torsten.

[Carson]

...been dying to say this all day.....

Interesting question Torsten....

I would imagine that he walked softly though......

[torstenbel]

I do remember having seen earlyish SA photos with Goering carrying a stick like that, I just never thought there was some symbolic meaning to it, until reading the caption under this photograph. This stick is specifically referred to as an SA Stock ... it is not just some walking stick to help him get along more easily ... there is something else to it. Cheers, Torsten.

[luftwaffe blue]

Hitler supposedly owned a walking stick that was known to be the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsches, i recall lately it being up for sale somewhere in the UK.

I have never heard or read anything to do with an SA stick though i have period photos of SA officers holding walking sticks, as you state Goring had one, maybe it is as per the British Army when officers regularly had a walking stick.
Im sure the SA didnt have them due a limp but more to bosh a Redfront over the head in a Munchen Bierhall, Sean

[torstenbel]

Im sure the SA didnt have them due a limp but more to bosh a Redfront over the head in a Munchen Bierhall, Sean

exactly and that is what I assume. there was a uniform and offensive weapons prohibition in Germany at one point and I would assume that these sticks were issued/used by the SA to circumvent this Verbot and still carry a 'civilian' weapon for self defence..Cheers, Torsten.

[Erich B.]

That's it--the 'SA Stock' was a somewhat weighted walking stick that was one of the few items used as weapons which could be legally carried by the early SA.
Erich

[torstenbel]

That's it--the 'SA Stock' was a somewhat weighted walking stick that was one of the few items used as weapons which could be legally carried by the early SA.
Erich

Hi Erich, thanks for confirming this. Does anyone have one of these sticks and were they marked especially in any way? Cheers, Torsten.

[sgstandard]

Stick

There are many period photos of the early SA carrying these.

[torstenbel]

There are many period photos of the early SA carrying these.

I had also noticed them in some other photos but never paid any attention to them ... it was only the caption in the Hitler photo referring to it as an SA Stock specifically that made me think that there was something more to it ... it would be great if someone has actually got one and if they were identifyable in some way when coming across one. Cheers, Torsten.