List of SA group leaders

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The following list shows all persons who achieved the rank of group leader in the Sturmabteilung (SA), the "party army" of the NSDAP .

Since it was the second highest rank in that organization, very few group leaders were appointed. According to the current state of research, only 120 men among several million SA members were promoted to this rank between 1931 and 1945, so that only about one in 25,000 people who belonged to the organization during its entire existence achieved this rank.

The following list follows the ranking list of Obergruppenführer, Gruppeführer and Brigadefuehrers compiled in 1969 by Horst Henrich on behalf of the Federal Archives . This is based on a systematic evaluation of the so-called “Führer commands” issued by the SA leadership from the years 1931 to 1944, i. H. public announcements of promotions in the SA. The list is sorted by the date of appointment as group leader.

Since the Schutzstaffel (SS) was officially and formally part of the SA until it was raised to an independent organization in July 1934, the SS group leaders appointed between 1931 and July 1934 were also considered SA group leaders.

The SA group leaders

Paramedic group leader

  • Eduard Kappelmeyer : 1933

literature

  • Horst Henrichs (editor): The organization of the Supreme SA leadership from January 5, 1931 to April 20, 1944. Including ranking of Obergruppenführer, Gruppenführer and Brigadführer. On the basis of the official Führer orders 2 (July 31, 1931) to 85 (April 20, 1944), the order of March 31, 1931 and the special orders IV, 23a and 79a , pp. 362–366.
  • Bruce Campbell: The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism , Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky 2004, ISBN 978-0-8131-9098-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Fritz Haltern . 1932 (?) Entrusted with the management of the SA group west, which included the districts Hessen-Nassau Süd, Hessen-Darmstadt, Hessen Nassau Nord, Rheinland-Süd.
  2. ↑ Erich Herrmann Julius Reimann (born June 17, 1903 in Berlin; † January 13, 1963 ibid). After the First World War, in 1921 he was in the self-defense of Upper Silesia. In the 1920s, Reimann was a youth leader at the Stahlhelm . From May 15, 1925 to March 31, 1930 he was a police officer with the regulatory police in Hamburg. He was dismissed from this job because of Nazi activities. On May 1, 1930, he joined the NSDAP (membership number 233,951) and the SA. From November 1, 1930 to February 15, 1932, Reimman was appointed adjutant of the SA-Gausturm Nordmark, and then from February 16, 1932 to May 31, 1932, he served as an adjutant of the SA sub-group Nordmark. During this time he was promoted to SA-Sturmbannführer on March 31, 1932. From June 1, 1932 to July 1, 1932, Reimann was entrusted with the duties of staff leader of the SA sub-group Ostholstein, in order to then hold this regularly until December 31, 1932. On July 1, 1932, he was promoted to SA Standartenführer. From January 1, 1933 to September 1, 1933, Reimann was then staff leader of the SA sub-group? on and after its conversion to SA Brigade 16 (Schleswig), until the end of 1933 staff leader of this brigade. From February 1, 1934 to July 1, 1934 Reimann was adjutant of Department Head II (Personnel Office) of OSAF . From July 1, 1934 to March 20, 1937 he was appointed adjutant to the Chief of Staff of the SA, Viktor Lutze . During this time he was promoted to SA Oberführer on November 10, 1934. From March 20, 1937 to October 31, 1943 Reimann was the official chief adjutant of the SA chief of staff. In this position he was promoted to SA group leader on May 1, 1937. In addition to his adjutant rank, Reimann held the rank of head of office in the OSAF from March 18, 1935 to October 31, 1943. In addition, from March 23, 1936, he was the leader of the SA-Wachstandarte Feldherrenhalle, a representation formation of the SA with six storms (Munich, Berlin, Hattingen, Krefeld, Stettin and Stuttgart). From November 1, 1943 to May 1945, Reimmann was finally a formal member of the OSAF as SA leader zV. From 1945 to 1948 he was in an internment camp.
  3. ^ Ernst Ludwig Fichte (born August 24, 1891 in Greiz). From July 1933, Fichte was the leader of SA Brigade 35 in Leipzig. By 1944 at the latest, he was a member of the SA Group in Saxony. Aside from his SA career, he was vice-president and then president of the trade fair office in Leipzig and chairman of the supervisory board of Leipziger Messe- und Ausstellung AG and the travel agency Leipziger Messeamt .
  4. ↑ Hans Lehmann . From June 1, 1935 to April 19, 1936 entrusted with the management of the staff leader of the Mitte group; then from April 20, 1936 to June 30, 1937 regular staff leader. Promoted to SA Oberführer on November 9, 1935.
  5. ↑ Reinhard Börner . Was a member of the DDP from 1918 to 1921.
  6. ^ Hermann Lohbeck (* 1892 in Elberfeld; 1945 in Frankfurt an der Oder). Captain a. D. Wood merchant in Düsseldorf. 1931 SA leader in Düsseldorf. Notorious thug, noticed in 1933 for mistreating officials with riding whips. Assigned the command of SA Brigade 74 from December 15, 1933 to February 14, 1934. On January 1, 1932, he was promoted to SA Standartenführer. On February 15, 1934, he was promoted to SA Oberführer and on November 9, 1937 to SA Brigadführer. Member of the NSDAP (membership number 242.690).
  7. ^ Leonhard Gontermann . In 1933 he ran unsuccessfully in constituency 18 for the Reichstag. After the Second World War, he took part in the Nuremberg trials as an expert on SA matters.
  8. ↑ Karl Körner (born August 6, 1897 Nussloch; June 18, 1978 in Kassel). Körner participated as a war volunteer in the First World War, in which he was injured twice. In the 1920s it was part of the center. On December 1, 1929, he joined the NSDAP (membership number 166.208), where he became a member of the Heidelberg local group. On March 1, 1930, he also became a member of the SA, in which he received the rank of squad leader. In the years that followed, up to 1935, Körner became involved as an SA leader in his home town of Heidelberg. During this time he was successively promoted to SA-Truppführer (May 1, 1930), SA-Sturmführer (October 14, 1930), SA-Sturmbannführer (October 1, 1932) and SA-Standartenführer (May 1, 1933) and was last Leader of the SA Standard 100. In March 1935 he was used for a few months to build up the SA in the Saar area. In August 1935 he took over the leadership of SA Brigade 152 in Trier. During this activity he was promoted to SA Brigadefuhrer on January 30, 1937. From April 1941, Körner led the SA Group Middle Rhine in Koblenz as deputy leader. On November 20, 1942, Körner was appointed staff leader of the Lower Saxony SA group. On February 3, 1943 he took over the deputy leadership of the group instead of Günther Graetz, who was at war .
  9. ↑ Lorenz Karl Ohrt (born November 21, 1897 in Schönwalde, Holstein). Ohrt was the son of Pastor Paul Ohrt. After attending school, which he passed with the final exam at the Katharineum in Lübeck, he took part in the First World War. From January 6, 1919, he studied medicine and later dentistry at the University of Hamburg . The dental state examination he insisted 1921. 1922 he received his doctorate with the supervised by Fraenkel work contribution to the knowledge of osteomyelitis of the jaw bone (presented in February 1922) at the Medical Faculty of the University of Hamburg for Dr. med. dent. Before 1933 he belonged to the Stahlhelm. In 1933, Ohrt joined the NSDAP. He was accepted into the SA as a Sturmbannführer. In the late 1930s, Ohrt was the staff leader of the Nordmark group led by Arthur Nibbe. Around 1940 he was commissioned as a representative of Nibbe with the management of the SA group Südmark. After completing military exercises in 1934 and 1936, Ohrt was appointed lieutenant in the reserve in 1937. In 1940 he was promoted to captain. As a participant in the war he was promoted to major. (Q: CV in his dissertation; Campbell: SA-Generals, passim.)
  10. ↑ Eduard Kappelmeyer (born May 29 1888 in Nuremberg). Medical group leader and group doctor of the SA Group Franconia.