ERNST ROHM

(Ernst Julius Günther Röhm)


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Ernst Rohm
Ernst Rohm
  • Born: November 28, 1887
  • Died: July 1, 1934
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Soldier

Ernst Julius Günther Röhm was a German military officer and an early member of the Nazi Party. As one of the members of its predecessor, the German Workers' Party, he was a close friend and early ally of Adolf Hitler and a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung (SA, "Storm Battalion"), the Nazi Party's militia, and later was its commander. By 1934, the German Army feared the SA's influence and Hitler had come to see Röhm as a potential rival, so he was executed during the Night of the Long Knives.