SA group Silesia
The SA group Silesia was a regional division of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary combat organization of the Nazi Party in the era of National Socialism .
The group included all SA units stationed within the Prussian provinces of Silesia and Upper Silesia . Within the organization of the SA, the group was initially subordinate to the Supreme SA Leadership (OSAF), the central management staff of the SA as an overall organization, and later to various SA upper groups (see section Organization and structure), with the management staff of the Silesia group as well as the management staff of all SA groups were in fact directly subordinate to OSAF despite their formal subordination to the main groups.
The leadership of the Silesia group and thus direct command of all units belonging to it was given by an i. d. As a rule, SA functionary with the rank of group or senior group leader was taken over, reporting directly to the SA chief of staff. As deputy , the chief of staff was Adolf Hitler , who officially headed the SA as “Supreme SA Leader”, and the functionary responsible for the day-to-day management of the SA as a whole. The leader of the group Silesia - who in the years in which the subdivision of the upper group existed, was always in personal union at the same time leader of the SA upper group of which the group Silesia was formally part - thus stood together with the leaders of the other SA- Groups (until 1932 and from 1934) or SA upper groups (1932 to 1934) within the hierarchy of rank of the SA as a mass organization immediately behind the chief of staff at the second management level. In comparison to the organization of the Reichswehr (in a way the model for building the SA), he was comparable to the commander of a military district who, as the highest commander in a large area of responsibility, was only subordinate to the chief of army command and the commander in chief.
The group comprised 5 (later 6) sub-groups (from 1933 these were given the name "Brigades"), which in turn comprised five to six standards each. The standards were in turn divided into several storm bans, while the storm bans consisted of about half a dozen SA storms. The storms, as the smallest upper unit of the SA, in turn comprised several levels of division at the local level (squads, flocks, rotten).
Organization and structure
For the longest time of its existence, the Silesia Group was directly subordinate to the Supreme SA leadership. During the existence of the structure of the SA upper group from September 1932 to July 1934, the group was successively part of different upper groups, in order to be directly subordinate to the OSAF again after the abolition of the upper groups in the wake of the Röhm affair : From September 1932 to 30 June 1933 the group belonged to SA-Obergruppe I (comprised the SA groups Berlin-Brandenburg, Ostmark, Silesia, Ostland, Pomerania and Nordmark). After a reorganization of the upper groups on July 1, 1933, it then belonged to SA Upper Group III from July 1, 1933 to March 14, 1934 (comprised the SA groups Berlin-Brandenburg, Ostmark, Silesia). And after another reorganization of the upper groups on March 15, 1934, it finally belonged to SA Upper Group VIII from March 15, 1934 to July 1934 (only included the SA Group Silesia).
The SA Group Silesia ( color of the uniform: sulfur yellow) comprised the following brigades:
- SA Brigade 17 (Upper Silesia), Opole
- SA Brigade 18 (Central Silesia South), Schweidnitz
- SA Brigade 19 (Lower Silesia South), Görlitz
- SA Brigade 20 (Central Silesia North?), Breslau
- SA Brigade 21 (Lower Silesia North), Liegnitz
- SA Brigade 217 (Katowice), Katowice
Structure of the brigades of the SA Group Silesia :
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SA Brigade 21
- included the standards 7, 41, 47, 50, 56 and 58, the reserve 58 and the equestrian standards 21 and 121
The leaders of the group
Leader of the Silesian SA group | |
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Official data | Official |
1928 to 1930 | Kurt Kremser |
May to June 1931 (provisional) | Hans Hayn |
June 1, 1931 to June 30, 1934 | Edmund Heines |
July 10, 1934 to April 30, 1936 | Otto Herzog |
August 1936 to May 1937 | Heinrich Georg Graf Fink von Finkenstein (in charge of the tour) |
May 1936 to June 1939 | Heinrich Georg Graf Fink von Finkenstein (as regular guide) |
February 1, 1942 to March 30, 1943 | Richard Aster (in charge of the tour) |
April 1, 1943 to May 8, 1945 | Richard Aster (as regular guide) |
The leaders of the subunits
The leaders of subgroup / brigade 17
- 1933 to 1934: Hans Ramshorn
- 1934 to 1934: Franz Stephan
- 1934 to 1935: Wilhelm Metz (police chief)
- 1935 to 1942: Richard Aster
- 1943 to 1945: Otto Lohmann
The leaders of subgroup / brigade 18
- December 15, 1932 to June 30, 1933: Hans Hayn (in charge of the tour)
- July 1, 1933 to May 15, 1935 (official) / 30. June 1934 (factual): Wilhelm von Grolman
- July 11, 1934 to April 19, 1935: Adolf Tillner (responsible for the tour)
- April 20, 1935 to September 14, 1935: Adolf Tillner (in charge of the tour)
- September 15, 1935 to August 31, 1936: Adolf Tillner (as regular leader)
- 1936 to 1937: Emil Borchmann
- 1937 to 1943: Georg Dzwiza
- 1943 to 1945: Gustav Nohel
The leaders of Subgroup / Brigade 19 :
- 1933 to 1935: Emil Borchmann
- 1935 to 1938: Wilhelm Heerde
- 1938 to 1941: Fritz Strauss
- 1943: Richard Pohl
The leaders of subgroup / brigade 20 :
- 1933 to 1935: Wilhelm Heerde
- 1935 to 1936: Hermann Berchtold
- 1936 to 1945: Adolf Tillner
The leaders of subgroup / brigade 21
- around 1931: Hans Kallenbach
- August 1, 1931 to March 1, 1932: Wilhelm von Grolman
- SA ban from xy to xy 1932
- July 1, 1932 to March 14, 1934: Hans-Karl Koch
- April 1934 to June 30, 1934: Eberhard von Wechmar
- 1934 to 1935: Georg Dwziza
- 1935 to 1936: Heinrich Georg Graf Fink von Finkenstein
- 1936 to 1942: Johannes Wolter
- 1934: Rudolf Scholz
literature
- Horst Henrich : The organization of the supreme SA leadership. With ranking of the Obergruppenführer, Gruppe- und Brigadführer , 1966.
- Peter Longerich : The brown battalions , 1989.