Sturmabteilung (SA)

The Sturmabteilung (SA; "Storm Division" or Storm Troopers) was the original paramilitary wing of the NSDAP. It played a significant role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Its primary purposes were providing protection for National Socialist rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties, especially the Roter Frontkämpferbund of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and intimidating Romani, trade unionists, and especially Jews.

Stabschef

• Ernst Röhm
• Otto Wagener
• Wilhelm Schepmann

SA-Obergruppenführer

• Hermann Göring
• Julius Streicher
• Baldur von Schirach
• Hanns Kerrl
• Gerhard Wagner
• Jakob Sprenger
• Franz Xaver Schwarz

SA-Gruppenführer

• Hanns Oberlindober