List of SA groups and parent groups

The following list of SA groups and upper groups gives an overview of the organizational structure of the highest level of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party and civil war army of the NSDAP .

Organization of the SA from May 1931

Organization of the SA from September 1932

According to a decree of the Supreme SA leadership of September 9, 1932, the new structure of the SA upper groups was introduced with effect from September 15, 1932 and several of the existing SA groups were combined under the roofs of the new upper groups. A total of five main groups, to which fifteen groups were subordinated as subdivisions, while three groups without subordination to a main group remained as an independent group .

	Leader of the upper group	included
SA Upper Group I ( Berlin )	Group leader Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorff	SA group Berlin-Brandenburg (temporarily in command unit with the upper group), SA group Ostmark, SA group Baltic Sea
SA Upper Group II ( Hanover )	Group leader Viktor Lutze	SA Group North Sea (temporarily in command unit with the upper group; consisting of the previous group North Sea and the subgroup Hamburg), SA Group Lower Saxony, SA group Nordmark (without subgroup Hamburg)
SA Upper Group III ( Koblenz )	_{(before January 1, 1933) SA group leader} SA group leader August Schneidhuber ^{September 15, 1932 to March 31, 1933} SA group leader Emil Steinhoff ^{April 1, 1933 to June 30, 1933}	SA group Westphalia, SA-Niederrhein, SA group west (temporarily in command unit with the upper group)
SA Upper Group IV ( Ingolstadt ) from April 1, 1933: ( Munich )	SA-Gruppenführer Hans Georg Hofmann ^{September 15, 1932 to March 31, 1933} SA-Obergruppenführer August Schneidhuber ^{April 1, 1933 to June 30, 1933}	SA Group Southwest, SA group Franconia, SA highland group
SA Upper Group V ( Dresden )	SA group leader Manfred von Killinger	SA group middle, SA group Thuringia, SA group Saxony
Independent groups		SA group Ostland, SA group Silesia (group leader Edmund Heines ), SA Group Austria

Organization of the SA from July 1933

According to a decree of the Supreme SA leadership of July 7, 1933, the SA was divided into eight main groups, which comprised twenty-one groups.

The upper group Königsberg was newly created, which was named SA Upper Group I, which had previously led the Upper Group Berlin. For its part, the Berlin Upper Group received the name of the SA Upper Group III, which had previously been led by the Upper Group Koblenz. This was renumbered as SA-Obergruppe V and moved its office from Koblenz to Frankfurt. The SA Group Thuringia was removed from the area of responsibility of the SA Upper Group Dresden (previously Upper Group V, now Upper Group IV) and incorporated into Upper Group V (Frankfurt), which also includes the Westmark areas (previously Group West, Westphalia and Lower Rhine) and the groups Hesse and southwest included.

The previous SA upper group IV (Ingolstadt), which included the Bavarian East Markets, Franconia and Hochland groups, was renamed SA upper group VII (Munich).

The previous group West was divided into: Group Westmark and Group Hessen.

	Leader of the upper group	included
SA Upper Group I ( Königsberg )	Obergruppenführer Litzmann	Ostland group
SA Upper Group II ( Stettin )	SA-Obergruppenführer Max Luyken	SA group Pomerania, SA group Hansa (newly formed from the independent Mecklenburg subgroup and the Hamburg subgroup) and SA Group Nordmark
SA Upper Group III ( Berlin , initially still Breslau )	SA-Obergruppenführer Edmund Heines	SA group Silesia, SA group Berlin-Brandenburg and SA group Ostmark
SA Upper Group IV ( Dresden )	SA-Obergruppenführer Manfred von Killinger	SA group Saxony and SA group center
SA Upper Group V ( Frankfurt a. M. )	SA-Obergruppenführer Emil Steinhoff (according to other information Dietrich von Jagow )	SA group Thuringia, SA group Westmark, SA group Hessen and SA group southwest
SA Upper Group VI ( Hanover )	Viktor Lutze	SA group North Sea (without sub-group Hamburg), SA Group Lower Saxony, SA group Westphalia and SA group Niederrhein
SA Upper Group VII ( Munich )	SA-Obergruppenführer August Schneidhuber (since April 1st)	SA group Bayerische Ostmark, SA group Franconia and SA highland group
SA Upper Group VIII ( Linz )		SA Group Austria

Organization of the SA from March 15, 1934

On the occasion of an expansion of the SA upper groups, the new SA upper group VIII (Breslau) was created, which consisted of the SA group Silesia, which had previously formed part of SA upper group III (Berlin). The leader of the Silesia Group, Edmund Heines, who had previously also been the leader of the SA Upper Group III (Berlin) - based in Breslau - became the leader of the new Upper Group in personal union. The previous Upper Group VIII (Linz) became Upper Group XI in March. On April 4, 1934, the upper group X was created, which included the groups Lower Rhine and Westphalia.

	Leader of the upper group	included
SA Upper Group I ( Königsberg )		SA group Ostland
SA Upper Group II (Stettin)		SA group Hansa, SA group Pomerania and SA Group Nordmark
SA Upper Group III (Berlin)
SA Upper Group VI (Hanover)	SA-Obergruppenführer Viktor Lutze	SA Group Lower Saxony, SA North Sea, SA Group Niederrhein and SA group Westphalia
SA Upper Group VII (Munich)	SA-Obergruppenführer August Schneidhuber	SA group Bayerische Ostmark , SA group Franconia and SA highland group
SA Upper Group VIII (Silesia)	SA-Obergruppenführer Edmund Heines	Silesia group
SA Upper Group IX (Koblenz) (created April 1, 1934?)		SA Group Westmark and SA Group Kurmark
SA upper group X	Wilhelm Schepmann (from April 4, 1934)
SA Upper Group XI (Linz)	Reshny

Organization of the SA from May 1934

Another reclassification took place on May 15, 1934.

	Leader of the upper group	included
SA Upper Group I (Berlin)	SA group leader Karl Ernst	SA group Berlin-Brandenburg and Ostmark group
SA Upper Group II (Hanover)	SA-Obergruppenführer Viktor Lutze	SA Group Lower Saxony, SA Group North Sea and SA Group Nordmark
SA Upper Group III (Koblenz)		SA group Westphalia, SA Group Niederrhein and SA group west
SA Upper Group IV (Ingolstadt)		SA Group Hochland, SA Group Southwest, SA sub-groups Upper Middle and SA sub-group Lower Franconia
SA Upper Group V (Dresden)		SA Group Saxony, SA group middle, SA group Thuringia and SA group Pomerania
SA Upper Group VIII (Breslau)	SA-Obergruppenführer Edmund Heines	SA group Silesia
SA Upper Group X (Westphalia-Lower Rhine)	Wilhelm Schepmann (since April 1934)
SA Upper Group XII ( Hamburg )		SA group Hansa

Organization of the SA from August 1934

In August, the SA upper groups were dissolved and (as until 1932) the groups were set as the highest level of division.

literature

Horst Henrich (editor): The organization of the Supreme SA leadership from January 5, 1931 to April 20, 1944. Including the ranking of Obergruppenführer, Gruppenführer and Brigadführer. On the basis of the official Führer's orders 2 (July 31, 1931) to 85 (April 20, 1944), the order of March 31, 1931 as well as the special orders IV, 23a and 79a , s. a.
Peter Longerich : The brown battalions , 1989.

Individual evidence

↑ The announcement of the decree and its content can be found e.g. B. in: The archive: reference work for politics, economy, culture , supplementary volume, B. 2, 1933, p. 639.
↑ The renumbering and relocate the top group as leader of the command Obsten SA leadership no. 15 of 1 July 1933. See also Administration Guide of the Bavarian State Library. Section X: "NSDAP and its divisions 1933 to 1945" .

[1] The announcement of the decree and its content can be found e.g. B. in: The archive: reference work for politics, economy, culture , supplementary volume, B. 2, 1933, p. 639.

[2] The renumbering and relocate the top group as leader of the command Obsten SA leadership no. 15 of 1 July 1933. See also Administration Guide of the Bavarian State Library. Section X: "NSDAP and its divisions 1933 to 1945" .