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**Br. James** · 11-15-2017, 06:03 PM

Hi Mike,

Great to know that there is much new reference material coming forth from you in the near future...but are you re-publishing Volume 1 of "Leaders of the Storm Troops?" Since I already have your Volume 1, published by Helion & Co. in 2015, it seems unusual that you intend to publish a NEW Volume 1!?! Can you say more?

Always anticipating good things from you, my friend,

Br. James

**Michael Miller** · 11-15-2017, 06:09 PM

Here's a sample from Volume I:

Franz Ferdinand Felix von Pfeffer
[Known as Pfeffer von Salomon until 03.07.1941]
Oberster SA-Führer (Reichs-SA-Führer)
(01.11.1926-29.08.1930)

Born: 19.02.1888 in Düsseldorf.
Died: 12.04.1968 in München/Bayern. Gravesite: München, Waldfriedhof Solln (Plot 15/Row 3/Grave 71/72).

NSDAP-Nr.: 16 101 (Joined, 00.03.1925; Expelled from the Party, 14.11.1941)

Promotions
01.10.1910 Einjährig-Freiwilliger
16.02.1911 Fahnenjunker
00.00.1911 Unteroffizier
23.05.1911 Fähnrich
18.08.1911 Leutnant (mit Patent vom 20.08.1909)
18.08.1915 Oberleutnant
20.09.1918 Hauptmann i. G.
00.08.1926-01.11.1926 “mit der Führung der SA beauftragt”
01.11.1926-29.08.1930 Oberster SA-Führer (Reichs-SA-Führer)
01.04.1930-12.08.1930 NSAK-Korpsführer

Career
ca. 1894-ca. 1899 Attended Volksschule.
ca. 1899-ca. 1906 Attended Gymnasium (graduated and passed his Abitur).
ca. 1906-ca. 1907 Studied law at the University of Heidelberg.
ca. 1906-00.00.1907 (?) Employed as a Referendar (junior barrister or law clerk) in Dühmen.
00.00.1907-00.00.1909 Attended a Militärschule.
01.10.1910-00.11.1918 Entered service as an Einjährig-Freiwilliger, assigned to Infanterie-Regiment “Herwarth von Bittenfeld” (1. Westfälische) Nr. 13 (Münster). As of 1912, he was assigned to the Regiment’s 6. Kompanie.
00.11.1918-00.03.1920 Führer of the Westfälische Freikorps von Pfeffer (on the Baltic and in Lithuania, Poland, and Oberschlesien). He also participated in the “Kapp-Putsch” of March 1920.
00.03.1920-00.00.192_ Worked as a Zivilangestellter (civilian employee) with the Wehrkreiskommando in Münster.
00.00.1920-00.00.1921 Arrested and detained for his involvement in the “Kapp-Putsch”. Released on the grounds of an amnesty and the decision of a Sondergericht (special court) that he be acquitted.
00.00.1922-00.00.1924 Member of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Treuebund.
00.00.1923-00.00.1923 Member of an anti-French sabotage troop in the Ruhrgebiet.
00.00.1924-00.00.1925 Member of the Völkisch-Sozialer Block (VSB).
00.05.1924-27.03.1925 Vorsitzender of the VSB Landesverband in Westfalen.
00.03.1925 Joined the NSDAP.
27.03.1925-07.03.1926 Gauleiter of Gau Westfalen der NSDAP.
10.09.1925-00.00.1926 Member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Nord- und Nordwestdeutschen Gaue der NSDAP (Working Organization of the North and West German Districts of the Nazi Party).
Christmas 1925 Submitted an internal Party memorandum entitled “Zucht. Eine Forderung zum Programm” (Breeding: A demand in relation to the Party Program):

First of all I share with Strasser and all revolutionaries the view that property in Germany is wrongly distributed: property, power, culture are in the wrong hands, misery and ruin are suffered by the wrong people, and this situation is growing and consolidating itself to such an extent that only the most drastic, ruthless intervention can force German life and Volkstum back into the right paths. Immediately after this common assumption, however, the thinking diverges.
There are those who take as their starting-point the equality of human beings, or rather the equality of Germans. This premise leads naturally to the logical conclusion that there can be no reason why among equals a different distribution of property, state power, culture should prevail. If someone who is equal is forced to live in circumstances significantly lower than the mean, then this is naturally “unjust”, or a “scandal” with respect to other equals. If someone who is equal is treated markedly better than the average then this is likewise “unjust”, for it can only happen “at the expense” of the share the other equals enjoy of property, power, and culture…
In the last analysis I accuse Strasser's program of being rooted in this basic mentality (and I fear I must accuse him of coming out with far too many arguments which in our camp are called ?socialist”). It is the Jewish-liberal-democratic-Marxist-humanitarian mentality. As long as there is even a single minute tendril which connects our program with this root then it is doomed to be poisoned and hence 'to wither away to a miserable death… All Germans are unequal. That is the starting-point… The first logical conclusion to be drawn from inequality is the inequality of value. Some Germans are more valuable than others (“value” is a relative concept, which I use here naturally to refer to value measured in terms of the German, Nordic world-view, and within this measured in terms of what serves the interests of collective German well-being).
A logical consequence of this inequality must be the principle of unequal treatment, that is, unequal share of state power, property, culture. All these must be distributed to people on the basis of how valuable they are…
A further logical consequence of inequality in what people are worth, and the continuous changes brought about by the development of the Volk, is the duty of the state to take charge of this development, which means influencing it in every way possible. Excellence must be increased and enhanced further. Inferiority must be reduced. In plain terms this is a question of breeding. Improving the stock of the race. Breeding human beings… From the above considerations I can draw up the following programmatic demands of our future state, the 'Third Reich':
To determine the degree of higher or lower value of all inhabitants of Germany. The value will be assessed as the function of four criteria:
(1) actual performance in their professions
(2) physical attributes, according to health and racial characteristics
(3) spiritual, moral and cultural traits
(4) hereditary traits evaluated by considering parents and grandparents…
No pity is to be shown to those who occupy the lower categories of the inferior groups: cripples, epileptics, the blind, the insane, deaf and dumb, children born in sanatoria for alcoholics or in care, orphans (= children born out of wedlock), criminals, whores, the sexually disturbed, etc. [Krüppel, Epileptikern, Blinden, Irren, Taubstummen, Trinkerheilanstalten- (sic), Fürsorgezöglingen, Waisen, Verbrechern, Dirnen, Sexualgestörten u.s.w.] Everything done for them not only means taking resources away from more deserving causes, but counteracts the breeding selection process. Nor should we mourn the dumb, the weak, the spineless, the apathetic, those with hereditary diseases, the pathological, because they go under “innocently”…
This bottom category means destruction and death. Weighed and found wanting. Trees which do not bear fruit should be cut down and thrown into the fire. (NSDAP Hauptarchiv, Hoover Institution Microfilm Collection), reel 44, folder 896, i-ii.)

07.03.1926-20.06.1926 Gauleiter of Groβgau Ruhr der NSDAP, together with Dr. Joseph Goebbels and Karl Kaufmann.
07.03.1926-20.06.1926 Gau-SA-Führer Ruhr.
00.08.1926-01.11.1926 “mit der Führung der SA beauftragt” (Charged with leadership of the SA).
01.11.1926-29.08.1930 Oberster SA-Führer (Reichs-SA-Führer). Submitted his resignation, 12.08.1930 (see entry for that date below), and succeeded at the end of the month by Hitler. Prof. Bruce Campbell describes Pfeffer von Salomon's leadership of the SA as follows:

By all accounts he was a genuine leader, a strong-willed personality of great energy and ability, but of equally great arrogance and independence, who did not lack enemies within the NSDAP because of his ambition and lack of tact. Clearly he was a man who believed he was right and therefore did not like to compromise. Yet it was only through just such a combination of will, ability, and leadership that he was able to transform the SA into a national organization. And despite a certain inflexibility and brutal directness of character, von Pfeffer had learned to adapt to changing conditions and political contexts.... he could see beyond the world of guns and uniforms. It is this political side of von Pfeffer which enabled him to create a new form for the SA, different from that of the Wehrverbände and better adapted to current conditions. Critical of the “dilettantism” of the Beer Hall Putsch, he was able to draw the lesson from it that if the “national revolution” were to succeed, what was needed was not a better organized putsch, which was the solution proposed by many who continued to think in exclusively military terms, but rather entirely new tactics. As Gauleiter of the Ruhr he gained the experience necessary to adapt the paramilitary form of the Wehrverband to the substance of a political movement. In this he was aided by Viktor Lutze. (Campbell, The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism, p. 50)

03.11.1926 Issued an order on the “SA and the Public (Propaganda)”, which included the following:

The only form in which the SA appears to the public is that of the closed formation. This is at the same time one of the most powerful forms of propaganda. The sight of a large number of inwardly and outwardly calm, disciplined men, whose total will to fight may be unequivocally seen or sensed, makes the most profound impression on every German and speaks to his heart a more convincing and inspiring language than writing and speech and logic can ever do. Calm composure and matter-of-factness underline the impression of strength- the strength of the marching columns and the strength of the cause for which they are marching. The inner strength of the cause leads the German emotionally to deduce its rightness: “For only the right, the honest, the good can release true strength.” Where whole hosts purposefully (not in the welling up of sudden mass suggestion) stake life and limb and existence for a cause, the cause must be great and true!
... The SA man is the sacred freedom fighter. The Pg [Parteigenosse- Party Comrade] is the instructor and skilled agitator. Political propaganda seeks to enlighten the adversary, to dispute with him, to understand his viewpoint, to go into his ideas, up to a certain point to agree with him- but when the SA appear on the scene, this stops. They are out for all or nothing. They know only the motto (metaphorically): Strike dead! You or me. (Joachim C. Fest, “Ernst Röhm and the Lost Generation”, in The Face of the Third Reich, pp. 142-143)

05.12.1926-29.08.1930 Direkter Vorgesetzter der HJ. His appointment to this post resulted from his successful demand that the Hitler-Jugend be directly subordinated to the SA.
27.10.1927-11.06.1930 Vorsitzender des Jugendausschuβ (Chairman of the Youth Committee; redesignated Jugendamt, 00.00.1928) in the Reichsleitung der NSDAP.
19.08.1927-21.08.1927 Organisationsleiter (Director of Organization) for the “3. Reichsparteitag der NSDAP” in Nürnberg.
01.03.1928 Created seven new SA-Oberführer commands, placing them under the leadership of retired military officers, as follows:

SA-Oberführer Ost (Berlin) Hauptmann a. D. Walter Stennes
SA-Oberführer Nord (Hannover) Major a. D. Karl Dincklage
SA-Oberführer West (Kassel) Oberstleutnant a. D. Curt von Ulrich
SA-Oberführer Mitte (Dresden) Kapitänleutnant a. D. Manfred Freiherr von Killinger
SA-Oberführer Süd (München) Major a. D. August Schneidhuber
SA-Oberführer Ruhr (Elberfeld) Oberleutnant a. D. Viktor Lutze
SA-Oberführer Ostmark (Wien) Hauptmann a. D. Hermann Reschny

01.08.1929-04.08.1929 Participated in the “4. Reichsparteitag der NSDAP” in Nürnberg.
02.09.1929 Attended the wedding of Martin Bormann and Gerda Buch.
Autumn 1928 In letters to an SA subordinate in Köln, wrote:

13.10.1928: We are of the opinion that the SA, as the nucleus of the future German army, must be so trained and organized that even today, slowly but surely, a State is formed within the non-State, so that when the National Socialist Greater Germany is created the internal structure will already exist, determined and strong, invincible in every respect.
28.11.1928: The SA is the militant force of the movement-it is the personification of the will to power of a political organization.... As our SA is the expression of a party machine's politically organized will to power which wishes-not with words, but with actions- to accomplish the national and social liberation of the German people, the concept of comradeship in its ranks takes on an entirely different meaning from that in the so-called military and veteran organizations.... The comradeship in the SA formations must, therefore, become such a solid structure that all police bans or other underhand methods will recoil from its granite wall. (Robert M. W. Kempner, “Blueprint of the Nazi Underground- Past and Future Subversive Activities”, in Research Studies of the State College of Washington, Volume XIII, Number 2, June 1945)

28.12.1929 In a letter to an SA leader in Köln, wrote:

Before you stands but one individual: der Führer. And you obey him. Faith in him is faith in the German people. He commands and you obey. You ask not why nor wherefore. You know the goal. (ibid)

01.04.1930-12.08.1930 Korpsführer of the Nationalsozialistische Automobilkorps (NSAK, the forerunner of the later NSKK). First holder of this post.
00.00.1930-00.10.1934 Leiter of the Abteilung für den kulturellen Frieden of the NSDAP.
12.08.1930 Submitted his resignation from the post of Oberster SA-Führer, and succeeded at the end of the month by Hitler himself (who retained Dr. Otto Wagener as Chief of Staff). According to Dietrich Orlow, his decision to step down was the culmination of a long history of dissatisfaction with the Führer’s leadership. It had become clear to him that Hitler’s desire was to place further limitations on the autonomy of the SA. Whereas Pfeffer hoped to gain more Reichstag seats for his own subordinates in the SA, “Hitler”, writes Dietrich Orlow, “either refused to allow SA leaders to become members of the Reichstag, or else turned down Pfeffer's demand that he, Pfeffer, should control the votes of the SA deputies [In a letter- marked in handwriting “not sent”- to Pfeffer dated 13.09.1930, Walter Buch stated the latter was true]. In either case, Pfeffer finally withdrew his request and even lamely attempted to explain why the failure to have SA members in the Reichstag was best for the organization.” (Orlow, History of the Nazi Party: 1919-1933, p. 211) In a letter to SA leaders dated 29.08.1930, von Pfeffer wrote that the SA was justified in demanding “other visible and materially noticeable” confirmation that the SA was to benefit from the electoral successes of the NSDAP. Orlow continues:

[Pfeffer] did not specify what proof he had in mind, but it appears that in addition to wanting more money, he demanded more freedom to disintegrate the Reichswehr and to train the SA as the core of the new German mass army. Since Hitler was particularly unwilling to embark on a campaign of subversion against the Reichswehr, Pfeffer had no choice but to resign his position. (ibid, pp. 211-212)

06.11.1932-01.02.1933 Member of the Reichstag.
06.12.1932-01.02.1933 Stellvertretendes Mitglied (alternate member) of the 2. Ausschuβ (Auswärtige Angelegenheiten) der Reichstag (2nd Committee [Foreign Affairs] of the Reichstag).
05.03.1933-14.10.1933 Member of the Reichstag.
12.11.1933-27.11.1941 Member of the Reichstag (Wahlkreis 16, Südhannover-Braunschweig).
13.03.1934-00.00.193_ Beauftragter und Verhandlungsführer in der Kirchenfrage der NSDAP (Representative and Negotiation Leader for Church Questions of the NSDAP).
[00.00.1936] Honorary member of the Volksgerichtshof.
00.09.1939-00.03.1940 Interned in a concentration camp for seven months (according to his own account, which he gave on 20.02.1953).
00.00.1941 Briefly arrested in connection with the unauthorized flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland.
03.07.1941 In accordance with an order by the Reichsminister des Innern, Dr. Wilhelm Frick, removed “von Salomon” from his name and subsequently known only as “von Pfeffer”. For many years previous, he had already gone by “von Pfeffer” due to the “Jewish” sound of “Salomon”.
14.11.1941 Expelled from the NSDAP.
27.11.1941 Expelled from his seat in the Reichstag.
00.00.1942-21.07.1944 Lived on his estate in Pommern.
21.07.1944 Arrested in connection with the 20. July 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler and, according to his own account, imprisoned for four months.
00.01.1945 Fled from Pommern to Bayern.
00.00.1945-00.00.1945 Kommandeur of a Volkssturm Division.

Postwar Confinement
00.00.1945-00.00.1946 Interned in Heilbronn, then lived in Wiesbaden until 00.00.1960 when he moved to München.

Decorations & Awards
09.11.1918 Ritterkreuz des Kgl. Hausordens von Hohenzollern mit Schwertern
10.10.1915 1914 Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse
00.00.191_ 1914 Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse
21.02.1916 Ritterkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern des Kgl. Sächsischen Albrechts-Ordens
ca. 1919 Balten Kreuz I. Klasse
ca. 1919 Balten Kreuz II. Klasse
ca. 1921 Schlesischer Adler 1. Stufe
ca. 1921 Schlesischer Adler 2. Stufe
ca. 1918 Verwundetenabzeichen, 1918 in Schwarz
ca. 1934 Ehrenkreuz des Weltkrieges 1914-1918 mit Schwertern
ca. 1933 Goldenes Ehrenzeichen der NSDAP
ca. 1929 Nürnberger Parteitagsabzeichen 1929
00.00.194_ Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP in Silber
00.00.194_ Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP in Bronze
00.00.1934 Ehrendolch der SA (mit Wirkung vom 03.02.1934)
00.02.1934 Ehrenwinkel für alte Kämpfer

Notes
* Parents:
- Father: Kgl. Preussischen Geheimen Regierungsrat Max Karl Friedrich Ferdinand Pfeffer von Salomon (born 25.04.1854 in Friedeberg/Neumarkt, died 11.08.1918 in Münster as a Hauptmann der Landwehr. He was the son of the Prussian Oberst of cavalry Ferdinand Pfeffer von Salomon [1822-1901; ennobled in 1862] and his wife Ida Henriette, née Hoffmann-Scholtz [1834-1899]).
- Mother: Anna, née von Clavé-Bouhaben (born 26.07.1862 in Simmern, died 28.01.1919 in Münster), daughter of the Prussian Appelationsgerichtsrat [appeals court counselor] Franz von Clavé-Bouhaben, an estate owner in Königswinter, and his wife Marie, née Coninx. She married Franz’s father on 23.04.1887.
- Younger brother: SA-Obergruppenführer and Regierungspräsident of Wiesbaden, Friedrich (“Fritz”) Ludwig Ferdinand Felix Pfeffer von Salomon (born 19.05.1892 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, died 29.10.1961 in Straelen/Niederrhein), NSDAP-Nr. 77 889 (Joined 01.03.1929).
* Among his cousins were the famous Freikorps leader and writer (and co-assassin, on 24.06.1922, of German foreign minister Walther Rathenau) Ernst von Salomon (born 25.09.1902 in Kiel, died 09.08.1972 in Stoekte bei Winsen) and his brother Bruno von Salomon, a leading figure in the KPD (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands).
* Married in Bakenhof bei Krefeld on 14.01.1922 to Marie Sophie Clara Freiin Raitz von Frentz (born 01.04.1895 in Altena/Westfalen, died 18.05.1984 in Altena/Westfalen). She was the daughter of Adolf Freiherr Raitz von Frentz (1843-1907], a Prussian Premier-Lieutenant, and his wife Sophie Freiin von Lüninck (1850-1934]. Former Hamburg Gauleiter Dr. Albert Krebs describes Frau Pfeffer as follows:

Insofar as Pfeffer criticized the party, he was undoubtedly supported or even encouraged to do so by his wife. Her repugnance for many leading Nazis, especially Hitler himself, derived from her unhindered instincts and her still solid appreciation of real values and rules... (Dr. Krebs, The Infancy of Nazism, p. 282)

The following children were born to Franz Pfeffer von Salomon and his wife:

Irmgard (“Ita”) (born 00.05.1923), Dr. rer. nat., a biologist, married to Friedemann Freiherr von Wintzingerode [1913-1964], a farmer in South Africa.
Kunigunde (born 1927), Dr. rer.nat., also a biologist, married to the geologist Dr. phil. Jobst Hülsemann.
Ferdinand (born 1929), Dr. jur. and attorney in Lünen.
Max (born 1932), state attorney in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sources
Campbell, Bruce: The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism. The University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
Fest, Joachim C.: The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Ltd., 1970.
Fraschka, Mark A.: Franz Pfeffer von Salomon: Hitlers vergessener Oberster SA-Führer. Wallstein-Verlag, 2016.
Höffkes, Karl: Hitlers politische Generale: Die Gauleiter des Dritten Reiches. Grabert-Verlag-Tübingen, 1986.
Höhne, Heinz: The Order of the Death's Head. Martin Secker and Warburg, 1969.
Krebs, Dr. phil. Albert: The Infancy of Nazism: The Memoirs of Ex-Gauleiter Albert Krebs, 1923-1933. New Viewpoints, 1976.
Lilla, Joachim; Döring, Martin; & Schulz, Andreas: Statisten in Uniform. Die Mitglieder des Reichstags 1933-1945. Droste Verlag, 2004.
Siemens, Daniel: Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts. Yale University Press, 2017.
Stockhorst, Erich: 5000 Köpfe: Wer war was im 3. Reich (3rd Edition). Arndt-Verlag, 1998.
Wagener, Dr. Otto: Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant (edited by Henry Ashby Turner, Jr.; translated by Ruth Hein). Yale University Press, 1985.
Weiss, Hermann: Neue Deutsche Biographie. Duncker & Humblot, 2001.

**Erich B.** · 11-16-2017, 08:25 PM

Great--now I have to buy another volume 1--
That's okay-judging by the above, it will be a worthwhile purchase!
I have a good amount of material--not a lot of photos, although I do have some, but a decent group of papers to a number of individuals on your list.
Do you have a specific deadline, other than as soon as possible?
Erich

**Michael Miller** · 11-17-2017, 08:52 AM

Nothing more precise than "as soon as possible". :o)

Thanks for your offer of support, Erich.

Best wishes,
~ Mike
axisorion47@gmail.com

**Br. James** · 11-18-2017, 10:07 AM

I agree with Erich: I'll have to buy another Volume 1. (That will hopefully make the original Volume 1 a rare collector's item; hope it's value will at least offset the cost of the new Volume 1!) Will we receive an announcement when this edition is on sale?

Br. James

**Michael Miller** · 03-07-2018, 04:34 PM

Here is a complete listing of all the SA leaders who will be included in the 5-volume "Leaders of the Storm Troops" series.

Many thanks in advance to anyone able to contribute photos to this project.

Sincerely,
~ Mike
axisorion47@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/AxisBiographicalResearch/
https://www.amazon.com/Michael-D.-Mi...ntt_dp_epwbk_0

Leaders of the Storm Troops, Volume 2

Part I:
Oberster SA-Führer & Stabschef der SA

Adolf Hitler
Emil Jules Wilhelm (“Moritzl”) Maurice
Julius Johann (“Hans”) Ulrich Klintzsch
Hermann Wilhelm Göring
Walter Hans Buch
Alfred Max Ludwig Hoffmann
Wilhelm Pleickart Ludwig Adolf Arthur Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein
Franz Felix Freiherr von Pfeffer (earlier known as Pfeffer von Salomon)
Dr. phil. h. c. Otto William (Wilhelm) Heinrich Wagener
Ernst Julius Günther Röhm
Viktor Heinrich Lutze
Max Paul Wilhelm Werner Jüttner
Wilhelm Hans Schepmann

Part II:
SA-Obergruppenführer (B-H)

B
Adolf Heinrich (“Adolf Heinz”) Beckerle
Dr. phil. Hans Heinrich Bennecke
Joseph Berchtold
Franz Bock
Arthur Böckenhauer
Johann Heinrich Adolf Böhmcker
Fritz Bracht
Dr. med. Hermann Max-Gustav Brauneck
Friedrich Wilhelm Brückner
Josef Bürckel

D
Friedrich Leopold Damian

E
Gustav August Eigruber
Franz Xaver Ritter von Epp

F
Werner von Fichte
Heinrich-Georg Wilhelm Werner Graf Fink von Finckenstein
Friedrich (Fritz) Karl Florian
Dr. jur. Hans Michael Frank
Johann (“Hans”) Baptist Fuchs
Herbert Robert Gerhard Heinrich Fust

G
Paul Giesler
Hermann Wilhelm Göring (see biography in Part I)
Günther Gräntz
Kurt Wilhelm Günther

H
Heinrich (“Heinz”) Josef Haake
Friedrich (“Fritz”) Haselmayr
Edmund Heines
Wilhelm Helfer
Wolf -Heinrich Julius Otto Bernhard Fritz Hermann Ferdinand Graf von Helldorff
Otto Friedrich Herzog
Ludwig Arthur Hess
Philipp Prinz und Landgraf von Hessen (-Rumpenheim)
Prof. Dr. med. Paul Friedrich Karl Hocheisen
Franz Ritter von Hörauf
Hans Georg (“Trotsky”) Hofmann
Adolf Andreas Hühnlein

Leaders of the Storm Troops, Volume 2

SA-Obergruppenführer (J – P)

J
Dietrich Wilhelm Bernhard von Jagow
Wilhelm Jahn
Karl Rudolf Jordan
Max Paul Wilhelm Werner Jüttner

K
Siegfried Karl Viktor Johannes Heinz Kasche
Johannes (Hanns) Kerrl
Dr. med. Emil Ketterer
Karl Theodor Hermann Manfred Freiherr von Killinger
Dr.-Ing. h. c. Wilhelm Otto Max Kleinmann
Heinrich (“Heinz”) August Knickmann
Adolf Hajo Oltmann Kob
Richard Erich Koch
Walter Friedrich Julius Köhler
Friedrich (Fritz) Lorenz Ritter von Krauβer
Hermann Karl Theodor Kriebel
Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger
Kurt Kühme

L
Kurt Arno Lasch
Hartmann Lauterbacher
Dr. phil. Robert Ley
Wilhelm (“Willy”) Liebel
Karl-Siegmund Hermann Litzmann
Hinrich Lohse
Hanns Elard Ludin
Max Otto Luyken

M
Arno Manthey
Georg Friedrich Mappes
Wilhelm “Willy” E. K. Marschler
Dr. med. dent. Otto Marxer
Franz May
Prof. Christian Julius Mergenthaler
Dr. rer. pol. Gustav Alfred Julius Meyer
Joachim (“Jochen”) Waldemar Meyer-Quade
Martin Mutschmann

N
Walther Nibbe

O
Georg Oberdieck
Hanns Oberlindober
Hanns Günther von Obernitz

P
Hans Petersen
Friedrich (“Fritz”) Ludwig Ferdinand Felix Pfeffer von Salomon
Dr. rer. pol. August Wilhelm (“Auwi”) Heinrich Günther Viktor von Hohenzollern Prinz von Preußen
Alfred Josef Proksch

Leaders of the Storm Troops, Volume 3

SA-Obergruppenführer (R - W)

R
Dr. phil. Horst Raecke
Arthur Rakobrandt
Fritz Reinhardt
Hermann Reschny
Robert Emil Rigel
Carl Georg Röver
Dr. phil. Karl Josef Bernhard Rust

S
Ernst Friedrich Christoph (Fritz) Sauckel
Baldur Benedikt von Schirach
Dr. jur. Jonathan Schmid
August Schneidhuber
Heinrich August Schoene
Wilhelm Ferdinand Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer
Otto Karl Wilhelm Schramme
Franz Xaver Schwarz
Franz Schwede [Known as Schwede-Coburg, 08.07.1934-00.00.1937]
Franz Seldte
Ludwig Georg Siebert
Heinrich (“Heinz”) Hugo Ewald Späing
Jakob Sprenger
Friedrich Franz Adolf Louis Ferdinand von Stephani
Julius Streicher

T
Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven
Prof. h. c. Dr.-Ing. Fritz Todt
Hans von Tschammer und Osten

U
Ludwig Adolf Gustav Uhland
Dr. jur. Siegfried Josef Uiberreither
Curt Albert Paul Harris von Ulrich

W
Adolf Wagner
Dr. med. Gerhard Wagner
Dr. h. c. Josef Wagner
Wilhelm Weiβ

Leaders of the Storm Troops, Volume 4

SA-Gruppenführer (A – Z)

A
Johannes Wilhelm von Allwörden
Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Achim Konstantin Rudolf Ferdinand von Arnim
Richard Arthur Alfons Aster
Felix Aumüller

B
Franz Bernhard August Bauer
Dr. med. Ernst August Emil Beese
Gustav Behrens
Ernst Friedrich Beiβner
Hermann Friedrich Richard Berchtold
Wilhelm (Willy) Eugen Hermann Bloedorn
Prof. Dr. med. Friedrich Ludwig Kurt Blome
Prof. Dr. med. Hermann Alois Boehm
Reinhard Börner
Erich Hans Jürgen Boetel
Helmuth Brückner
Dr. med. Erich Rudolf Heinrich Wilhelm Bruns
Walter Buch (See biography in Volume I)
Hanns Bunge
Dr. med. August Burger
Dr. jur. Curt Ludwig Ehrenreich von Burgsdorff

C
Dr. rer. pol. Hans Carl Caspary

D
Dr. med. Axel Johannes Daiber
Wilhelm Dame
Georg Hugo Dechant
Georg von Detten
Edmund Philipp Diehl
Karl Dincklage
Hans Dippel
Wilhelm Jakob Dittler
Karl-Friedrich Dörnemann

E
Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Eberstein
Alfred Ernst
Karl Ernst
Eginhard Ernst Maria Eschborn

F
Paul Faβbach
Friedrich Josef Fenz
Fichte, Ernst Ludwig
Dr. jur. Ludwig Fischer
Hans Friedrich

G
Dr. med. Heinrich Albert Wilhelm Gaudin
Waldemar Friedrich Gustav Geyer
Dr. med. Giese, Johannes
Girgensohn, Thomas Otto Harald
Prof. Dr. phil. h. c. Edmund Glaise von Horstenau
Erich Bruno Artur Görlitzer
Otto August Karl Gohdes
Leonhard Gontermann
Otto Karl Gümbel

H
Karl Erwin Haas
Hasse, Albert Erich Max
Hacker, Elias Gustav Heinrich
Dr. med. Halem, Harry von
Dr. med. dent. Haltern, Friedrich “Fritz”
Dr. med. Gustav Emil Walther Haug
Dr. med. Ernst Max Hugo Hauke
Hans Hayn
Karl Hermann Rudolf Albert Heinz
Heitmüller, Walther Willy August
Dr. phil. Hans von Helms
Konstantin Hierl
Paul Georg Otto Hinkler
Walter Friedrich Hoevel
Hofmann, Bernhard
Paul Holthoff
Karl Holz

I
Dr. phil. Otto Wilhelm Georg Ivers

J
Oscar Martin Jaster
Prof. Dr. med. Hermann Jensen

K
Rudolf Friedrich Emil Johannes Kamps
Dr. med. Konrad Eduard Ludwig Kappelmeyer
Dipl.-Ing. Franz Karmasin
Max Köglmaier
Karl Körner
Gerret Korsemann
Karl Kraft

L
Dr. med. Friedrich (Fritz) Lauerbach
Hans Lehmann
Friedrich Wilhelm Max Lehmann
Hans Lehmann
Joseph Leopold
Maximilian (Max) Linsmayer
Dr. phil. Julius Lippert
Bruno Leopold Loerzer
Prof. Dr. med. Johannes (Hanns) Heinrich Löhr
Paul Hermann Karl Lohbeck
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Lucke
Prof. Dr. jur. Walter Luetgebrune
Johannes “Hans” Ivo Hermann Lukesch

M
Dr.-Ing. Meinhard Johannes Marnitz
Rudolf Michaelis
Dr. med. Wilhelm Mörchen
Karl-August Möslinger
Franz Karl Theodor Moraller
Johann (“Hans”) Otto August Nicolaus Elhard von Morozowicz-Wuhden

N
Dr.-Ing. Hermann Neubacher
Georg Heinrich von Neufville

O
Dr. med. dent. Lorenz Karl Ohrt

P
Dr. med. Eberhard Pagels
Kurt Karl Friedrich Plesch

R
Erich Hermann Julius Reimann
Dr. med. Karl Rettschlag
Hartwig-Georg Claus August Freiherr von Rheden
Alfred Richter
Dipl.Landwirt Hans-Joachim Ernst Riecke
Dr. med. Bruno Rothardt (Known as Bruno Czerwinski until 02.06.1936)

S
Dr. jur. h. c. Carl Eduard (Charles Edward) Leopold Georg Albert Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha
Julius Franz Hermann Schäfer
Christian Heinrich Martin Schaper
Franz Schattenfroh
Rudolf Jakob Schmeer
Wilhelm Eduard Schmid
Walter Oskar Arthur Schmidt
Dr. med. Albert Gottfried Christian Schmierer
Ludwig Julius Albert Schmuck
Dr. med. Albert Schneider
Dr. med. Max Emil Kurt Schönberg
Robert August Wilhelm Schormann
Konrad Schragmüller
Ferdinand Friedrich Heinrich Schramm
Karl Wilhelm Heinrich Schreyer
Prof. Dr. med. Walther (“Bubi") Schultze
Paul Gustav Schulz
Fritz Schwitzgebel
Joseph (“Beppo”) Seydel
Heinrich Simon
Max Solbrig
Peter Heinrich Stangier
Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Stanik
Wilhelm Ferdinand Stegmann
Emil Steinhoff
Walther Maria Stennes
Gregor Strasser
Dr. rer. pol. Karl Emil Julius Strölin

T
Dr. jur. Otto Georg Thierack
Oskar Türk

V
Fritz Johann Albert Ernst Vielstich
Hans Josef Vogel

W
Werner Wächter
Richard Wagenbauer
Dr. phil. h. c. Otto William (Wilhelm) Heinrich Wagener
Dr. med. Otto Max Walter
Hans Weinreich
Eugen Konstantin Ludwig Maria Werkowitsch

Z
Dr. phil. Gustav Zunkel

Leaders of the Storm Troops, Volume 5

SA-Brigadeführer (A – Z)

A
Josef Ackermann
Fritz Adam
Ernst Alms
Hans-Bodo Graf von Alvensleben-Neugattersleben
Wilhelm Aschka
Fritz Aurand

B
Johann (“Hans”) Erich Bachmann
Heinrich Otto Bätz
Victor Band
Kurt Alois Gustav Felix von Barisani
Dr. med. Friedrich ("Fritz") Georg Christian Bartels
Robert Bauer
Dr. med. Hans Karl Edmund Baumgartner
Erich Beck
Heinz Behnert
Erich Behrendt
Hans Heinrich Theodor Belzner
Leopold ("Leo") Bendak
Friedrich (“Fritz”) Wilhelm August Bening
Kurt Berger
Friedrich-Wilhelm Bethke
Bernhard Beyer
Georg Biederer
Ernst August Johann Ludwig Bischoff
Bernhard Konrad Heinrich Blum
Karl Christoph Friedrich Erich Böhme
Conrad Ernst Albert Boese
Wilhelm Boltz
Ernst Emil Borchmann
Arno Heinrich Alexander Breitmeyer (aka Breitmeier)
Johannes Brückner
Dr. rer. pol. Albrecht Hermann Brugger
Hermann Brunk
Richard Büchner
Dr. med. Eduard Fritz Heinrich Busse

C
Franz Xaver Richard von Carlshausen-Zacke
Lothar Franz Wilhelm Freiherr Buderus von Carlshausen-Zacken
Oluf Christensen
Ernst Claussen
Hans Eberhard Friedrich Walter Cramer
Theodor (“Theo”) Croneiß

D
Raimund Dahlem
Dr. med. Friedrich Karl Hermann (“Fritz”) Dahms
Dr.-Ing. e. h. Friedrich (“Fritz”) Ludwig Rudolf Carl Emil von Delius
Dr. med. Carl Reinhold Demme
Dr. phil. Wilhelm Dennler
Friedrich Wilhelm Dettmer
Max Deventer
Richard Diehl
Paul Maria Dorr
Eugen Reinhold Fritz Dorsch
Franz Xaver Bernhard Dorsch
Dr. med. dent. Otto-Heinrich Drechsler
Hans Duckwitz
Adolf Düver
Dr. jur. utr. Karl Leonhard Eduard Friedrich Bernhard Max Graf DuMoulin-Eckart
Adam Durein
Gotthold Dziewas
Georg Dzwiza

E
Dr. med. Hermann Karl Paul Ebeling
Dr. med. Adolf Otto Ehleben
Friedrich (“Fritz”) Eichinger
Dr. med. Karl Gottfried Theodor Ende
Alfons Erle
Eduard Wilhelm Heinrich Erich Ernst
Franz Escher
Günther Hermann Heinrich Esders
Friedrich Esscher
Arthur Friedrich Etterich

F
Josef Feichtmayr
Hermann Ludwig Martin Fiebing
Richard Fiedler
Dr. med. Kurt Maria Oskar August Fiekel
Peter Wilhelm Fink
Hugo Fischer
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Fischer
Emil Karl Frank
Gustav Otto Ernst Frenzel
Hans Heinrich Georg Adolf Freund
Karl Otto Frowein
Theodor Fründt
Fritz Fückert
Ludwig Friedrich Fürholzer

G
Jakob Gansmeier
Hellmut Albert Ganz
Dr.-Ing. Albert Leopold Eduard Ganzenmüller
Friedrich Geiβelbrecht
Georg Heinrich Gellert
Dr. med. Ernst Heinrich Gengnagel
Hermann Genth
Heinrich Gerlach
Ferdinand Hugo Gessert
Prof. Hermann Giesler
Arnold Emil Wilhelm Glasow
Johann (“Hans”) Glück
Julius Görlitz
Dr.-Ing. Friedrich ”Fritz” Görnnert
Wilhelm Greß
Wilhelm von Grolman
Karl Gutenberger

H
Philipp Wilhelm (“Willy”) Ludwig Haas
Friedrich (“Fritz”) Habenicht
Johann Georg Haberkern
Konrad Wilhelm Häfner
Willy Härtel
Alexander Heinrich Alfred Hagemann
Otto Erich Hagenmeyer
Heinrich Johann Hager
Otto Max von Haldenzwang
Franz Hanke
Erich Haucke
Daniel Hauer
Arthur Johannes (“Hans”) Hauswald
Carl Ernst Robert Heck
Harald Georg Alexander Karl von Hedemann
Wilhelm Johannes Max Heerde
Albrecht Heinrich
Alfred (“Fred”) Heinrich Helwig
Willy Henke
Richard Herrmann
Walter Ferdinand Wilhelm Georg Hertzer
Hans Adalbert Herwig
Dr. med. Eugen Heßler
Erich Paul Luis Hermann Heuer
Hans Adam Peter von Heydebreck
Bruno Hilber
Johann (“Hans”) Baptist Hilmeyer
Eduard Himpel
Dr. med. Karl Adam Hock
Hans Ludwig Höflmayr
Dr. med. Theodor (“Theo”) Fritz Sigismund Hoeft
Erich Johannes Hoevel
Arthur Vinzenz Karl Hofmann
Arno Erich Hofmann
Hans-Heinrich Oliver Hofrichter
Heinrich Franz Joseph Hohm
Dr. med. Franz August Martin Rudolf Holtgrave
Walter August Eduard Otto Holzmüller
Ernst Rudolf Horn
Friedrich Karl Horn
Dr. med. Gerhard Horn
Eugen Hübbe
Dr. jur. Franz Hueber
Alexander Wilhelm Ernst Bernhard Freiherr von Humboldt-Dachroeden
Heinrich Josef (“Heinz”) Huwerth

J
Karl Jacobsen
August Friedrich Christian Jäger
Franz-Werner August Konrad Jaenke
Dr. med. Karl Jahr
Georg Karl Joel
Karl Christian Heinrich Jostmeier
Philipp Wilhelm Jung

K
Kurt Ernst Albert Kaergel
Kurt Kapp
Alfons Walter Karbinsky
Eberhard Wilhelm Gustav Fritz Hans Heinz Kasche
Hans Hermann Otto Rudolf Karl von Keiser
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Keller
Hans-Georg Eberhard Kergel
Ludwig Kerth
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Kicker
Dr. rer. pol. Karl Erich Kiel
Dr. med. Friedrich August (“Fritz”) Kieser
Walter Kirchhof
Friedrich (“Fritz”) Hermann Amandus Joachim Klähn
Dr. med. Karl Klause
Dr. med .Hans Werner Klein
Otto Ferdinand Wilhelm (“Willi”) Klemm
Karl Leopold Kleres
Herbert Paul Karl Waldemar Knabe
Robert Kobbe
Hans-Karl Koch
Peter Kock
Johann Friedrich Köhler
Dr. jur. Fritz Köllner
Franz Reinhold Kömpf
Gerd Harry Arthur von Koerber
Vinzenz Julius Kohl
Eduard Hermann Josef-Maria Kolb
Werner Kolb
Johannes (“Hans”) Korth
Heinrich Korth
Otto Franz Ernst Kossatz
Thomas Johann Wilhelm Kozich
Alois Kraft
Erwin Kraus
Alfred Krauß
Richard Oswald Kretzschmar
Dr. med. Wilhelm Viktor Curt Krohm
Werner Kropp
Karl Kroß
Peter Kruse
Erwin Friedrich Kübler
Friedrich Wilhelm Johannes Kühnreich
Wilhelm (“Willi”) Künemund
Erwin Johannes Kuhn
Friedrich Adolf Kuls
Siegmund Peter Paul Hermann Kunisch

L
Dr. jur. Helmuth Lambert
Heinz Lampe
Johannes Lampe
Ludwig Leist
Josef Arnold Lentzen
Otto Karl Liebel
Walther Freiherr von Lindenfels
Dr. jur. Josef Anton Lingg
Carl Richard Friedrich Lintz
Dr. med. Wilhelm Emil Traugott Lochmann
Hans Löwe
Otto Ernst Hermann Lohmann
Karl Lorch
Max-Albert Lorenz
Georg Philipp Luber
Heinrich Hermann Arthur Lüdemann
Martin Franz Julius Luther
Anton "Toni" Lutz

M
Waldemar Magunia
Peter Maierhoffer
Josef Malzer
Richard Manderbach
Ernst Otto Philipp Mathy
Wilhelm Maul
Rudolf May
Franz Xaver Mayr
Dr. jur. Ludwig Karl-Theodor Mayr (-Falkenberg)
Hermann Megow
Herbert Richard Edgar Merker
Konrad Hans Hermann Mesmer
Wilhelm Metz
Oscar Alexander Milberg
Albert Balthasar Miller
Friedrich Wilhelm Möhring
Otto Heinrich von Molitor
Karl Heinrich Moock
Arnold Herbert Waldemar Mühle
Dr. med. Clemens Wilhelm Franklin Herbert Müller
Oskar Walter Müller

N
Hermann Neef
Adolf Neugschwandtner
Heinz Nitzsche
Erwin Nötzelmann
Gustav Nohel
Paul Nüßler

O
Wilhelm Heinrich Ocklenburg
Helmuth Hans Rudolf Siegfried Oldenbourg
Hans Olpp
Karl Josef Overhues
Richard Otto Karl Owe

P
Robert Palm
Hermann Paltinat
Fritz Paschold
Kurt Peltz
Heinz Otto Kurt Pernet
Alfred Persché
Horst Bernhard Kurt von Petersdorff
Eugen Plorin
Richard Pohl
Hans Polikeit
Ernst Porath
Arnold Portius
Walter Prüfke
Carl-Friedrich Graf Pückler
Helmuth Hans Alfred Quitzrau

R
Eduard Alfred Raabe
Paul Arthur Rabe
Kurt von Rabenau
Max Raedler
Friedrich Leonhard Heinrich Konrad Rahner
Hans Friedrich Alexander Ramshorn
Franz Josef Rappell
Georg Rau
Arthur Hans Reimann
Karl Reschmann
Georg Fritz Richter
Friedrich (“Fritz”) Karl Rilling
Wilhelm (“Willi”) Friedrich Adolf Ritterbusch
Rudolf Conrad Röhrig
Dr. med. Hans-Dietrich Wilhelm Theodor Röhrs
Werner Römpagel
Erich Rudzki
Heinrich Adolf Ruhe
Dr. rer. pol. Paul August Ruoff
Dr. jur. utr. Julius Eduard Ruttkowsky

S
Robert Heinrich Friedrich Sabirowsky
Wilhelm Sander
Hellmuth Konrad Karl Sassenberg
Carl Christian Wilhelm Sauke
Richard Theodor Schaller
Ottomar Georg Schaper
Hans Heinrich Bernhard Schaudinn
Richard Paul Schicke
Carl Ludwig Eduard Ernst Schleich
Erhard Erich Franz Remus Ferdinand von Schmidt
Friedrich (“Fritz”) Schmidt (known as “Schmidt-Kassel”)
Fritz Schmidt (known as “Schmidt-Münster”)
Gustav Emil Schmidt
Heinrich Schmidt
Wilhelm Friedrich Schneemann
Georg Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Schneider
Dr. rer. pol. Albert Schönborn
Adolf Schönhoff
Hermann Otto Ritter von Schöpf
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Scholz
Dr. med. Otto Schottenheim
Wilhelm Schroeder
Wilhelm (“Willi”) Eduard Schütz
Johannes Paul Siegfried Schütze
Peter Schug
Wolf Werner Graf von der Schulenburg
Karl Franz Schulz
Arthur Reinhold Schulze
Georg Schwäble
Werner Hans Schwarz
Eduard Schwarzmeier
Karl Georg Maximilian Schweinle
Heribert Ernst Friedrich Seidler
Hellmut Seifert
Fritz Sell
Wilhelm Josef Hubert Sengen
Julius Cäsar Siebe
Karl Wilhelm Siebel
Karl-Heinrich Sieber
Fritz Siegel
Wilhelm (“Willy”) Siegele
Wilhelm Sieh
Heinrich Wilhelm Soest
Dr. jur. Gustav Adolf Freherr Steengracht von Moyland
Richard Steinbügel
Otto Karl Gustav Steltzer
Hermann Cornelius Stoeß
Friedrich (“Fritz”) Ludwig Stollberg
Friedrich (“Fritz”) Strauß
Dr. med. Dr. vet. Arnulf Streck
Christoph Striebel
Gottfried Stubenrauch
Dr. med. Hermann Adalbert Stühlinger

T
Dietrich Gerhard Emil Theodor Tappen
Otto Teschner
Dr. med. Johann Konrad Martin Christian Thaler
Heinrich Theobald
Hubert Thewalt
Heinrich Walter Thiel
Max Thomas
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Karl Johannes Thums
Adolf Tillner
Friedrich Alwin Walter Troschke
Werner Ernst Albert Trzebiatkowsky
Theodor Tüllmann

U
Gustav August Überhorst
Dr. med. Franz Josef Frank Unger
Heinrich Unger
Walter Paul Unterstab

V
Wilhelm (“Willi”) Veller
Henning von Vieregge
Dr. jur. Friedrich Georg Eduard Vogeler
Peter Vogt
Friedrich August Ludwig Voigt
August Vollheim
Carsten Volquardsen

W
Emil Ludwig Wäckerle
Heinrich Ernst Helmut Wähmann
Johann Valentin Wagner
Hermann Ewald Robert Walch
Erich Henry (Heinrich) Waldvogel
Dr. med. Alexander Wallnöfer
Walter Walsberg
Georg von Walthausen
Eberhard Freiherr von Wechmar
Dr. med. Ernst Wegner
Wilhelm Weiskopf
Joachim Weist
Hans Hinrich Wilhelm Wendell
Heinrich Karl Adam Werner
August Wilhelm Wetter
Albert Wiczonke
Max-Joachim Wienandt
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Wilke
Otto Wilkens
Dr. med. Georg Winter
Julius Oskar Martin Wisch
Heinrich-Willi Wolf
Dr. phil. Johannes-Gotthard "Hanns" Wolter
Philipp Wurzbacher
Lucian (Lutz) Damianus Wysocki

Z
Walter Zähle
Lorenz Zahneisen
Hermann Karl Wilhelm Zapf
Eugen Zech
Wilhelm ("Willy") Ziegler
Johann ("Hans") Zöberlein
Dr. med. Heinrich (“Heinz”) Zoedler

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**Br. James** · 03-08-2018, 11:07 AM

Sorry Mike...no photos to contribute...but I do wish you all the best in this latest effort on behalf of all in our hobby! Looking forward to adding each of your new volumes to my library.

Warmest best wishes,

Br. James

**Erich B.** · 03-08-2018, 04:53 PM

I've got a number of photos and documents to scan!
Erich

**Michael Miller** · 03-10-2018, 05:08 PM

I'm looking forward to those, Erich.
Thank you.

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