Ernst Julius Günther Röhm was a German military officer, politician, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. A close friend and early ally of Adolf Hitler, Röhm was the co-founder and leader of the St
Röhm in 1933
Röhm, standing fifth from left between Hitler and Hermann Göring, pictured as a member of "the staff of the Führer taken on the day of his appointment as Reich Chancellor" on 30 January 1933
Hauptmann Röhm wearing his Reichswehr uniform with Freikorps Epp insignia during the Beer Hall Putsch trial in 1924
Defendants in the Beer Hall Putsch trial. From left to right: Pernet, Weber, Frick, Kriebel, Ludendorff, Hitler, Bruckner, Röhm, and Wagner.
Viktor Lutze was a German Nazi Party functionary and the commander of the Sturmabteilung who succeeded Ernst Röhm as Stabschef and Reichsleiter. After Lutze died from injuries received in a car accide
Ernst Röhm
…24 June that Röhm planned to use the SA to launch a plot against the government (Röhm-Putsch). At Hitler's direction, Göring, Himmler, Heydrich, and Victor Lutze drew up lists of people in and outside the SA to be killed. One of the men Göring recruited to assist him was Willi Lehmann, a Gestapo official and…
Hitler (centre, in front of the wreath), Lutze (on Hitler's left), and Himmler (on Hitler's right), giving a Nazi salute in front of the First World War cenotaph in the 1934 Nuremberg rally
Adolf Hitler with the widowed Paula Lutze at the Viktor Lutze state funeral, 7 May 1943