Sturmabteilung

Sturmabteilung

SA insignia
Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm inspecting the SA in Nuremberg in 1933
Agency overview
Formed	1920
Dissolved	May 8, 1945
Superseding agency	Schutzstaffel (c. 1934 onwards)
Type	Paramilitary
Jurisdiction	Weimar Republic Nazi Germany
Headquarters	SA High Command, Barerstraße, Munich 48°8′37.53″N 11°34′6.76″E / 48.1437583°N 11.5685444°E / 48.1437583; 11.5685444
Ministers responsible	Emil Maurice (1920–1921), Oberster SA-Führer Hans Ulrich Klintzsch (1921–1923), Oberster SA-Führer Hermann Göring (1923), Oberster SA-Führer Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (1926–1930), Oberster SA-Führer Adolf Hitler (1930–1945), Oberster SA-Führer
Agency executives	Otto Wagener (1929–1931), Stabschef-SA Ernst Röhm (1931–1934), Stabschef-SA Viktor Lutze (1934–1943), Stabschef-SA Wilhelm Schepmann (1943–1945), Stabschef-SA
Parent agency	Nazi Party (NSDAP)
Child agency	Schutzstaffel (until c. July 1934)

The Sturmabteilung (listen (help·info); often shortened to German SA or SA) was the Nazi Party's paramilitary group (its militia). The SA was formed in 1920 and had several leaders, including Ernst Röhm.

The SA helped Adolf Hitler rise to power in the 1930s.^[1] The Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) replaced the SA in 1934 after the Night of the Long Knives (where Röhm was killed).

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