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SA-Standarten operated in every major German city and were split into even smaller units, known as Sturmbanne and Stürme. The command nexus for the entire SA was the Oberste SA-Führung, located in Stuttgart. The SA supreme command had many sub-offices to handle supply, finance and recruiting. The SA also had several military training units.
Daluege was the SS leader of Northern Germany while Himmler controlled southern SS units out of Munich while serving as the National Leader for the SS; this move had the effect of rendering the loyal SS practically independent of the suspect SA, since Himmler and Daluege now outranked all SA commanders. The transitional SS ranks of 1930
An SA unit insignia patch; here: Sturm 12/Standarte 93. In 1927, the officer rank of SA-Führer became known by the title of Sturmführer and a higher officer rank known as Sturmbannführer was created to be held by battalion formation commanders directly subordinate to the Standartenführer. In 1928, an expansion of SA enlisted ranks was ...
Waffen-SS & Allgemeine SS [14] [15] [16] [4] [17] No insignia: Oberster Führer der Schutzstaffel: Reichsführer-SS [a] SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer [b] SS-Obergruppenführer: SS-Gruppenführer: SS-Brigadeführer: SS-Oberführer: SS-Standartenführer: SS-Obersturmbannführer: SS-Sturmbannführer: SS-Hauptsturmführer [c] SS ...
Berchtold was considered more dynamic than his predecessor but became increasingly frustrated by the authority the SA had over the SS. [16] This led to him transferring leadership of the SS to his deputy, Erhard Heiden, on 1 March 1927. [17] Under Heiden's leadership, a stricter code of discipline was enforced than would have been tolerated in ...
When Hitler decided to act against the SA, the SS was put in charge of killing Röhm and the other high-ranking SA officers. [27] The Night of the Long Knives occurred between 30 June and 2 July 1934, claiming up to 200 victims and murdering almost the entire SA leadership, effectively ending its power.
The ranks of the Allgemeine SS and the Waffen-SS were based upon those of the SA and used the same titles. However, there was a distinctly separate hierarchical subdivisions of the larger Waffen-SS from its general-SS counterpart and an SS member could in fact hold two separate SS ranks.
Standartenführer was the first of the SS and SA ranks to display rank insignia on both collars, without the display of unit insignia. [4] From 1938, newer SS uniforms featured the shoulder boards of a German Army Oberst (colonel) in addition to the oak leaf collar patches. [5]