Ernst Röhm

Ernst R?hm (or Roehm) (November 28, 1887, Munich; July 1, 1934, Munich-Stadelheim prison, murdered) was a German military officer and commander and co-founder of the Nazi Sturmabteilung or "stormtroopers".

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R?hm served as a career officer with the Bavarian Army during World War I. He held the rank of Oberleutnant with the Bavarian 10th Infantry Regiment and was severely wounded in the face in September of 1914 at Lorraine, France. He later was promoted to Hauptmann.

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Following the end of the war in 1918, he joined the Epp Freikorps, one of the many private militias that had formed in Munich as a reaction against the Weimar Republic. In 1920, he became a Nazi-party member and helped organize the Sturmabteilung (SA). In 1923, after the failed Beer Hall Putsch, R?hm spent 15 months in prison, during which time he became a close, personal friend of Adolf Hitler.

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