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Originally the unit was composed of eight men, commanded by Julius Schreck and Joseph Berchtold, and was modeled after the Erhardt Naval Brigade, a Freikorps of the time. The unit was renamed Stoßtrupp (Shock Troops) in May 1923.
- 800,000 (c. 1944)
- Nazi Party, Sturmabteilung (until July 1934)
- 4 April 1925
Units and commands of the Schutzstaffel were organizational titles used by the SS to describe the many groups, forces, and formations that existed within the SS from its inception in 1923 to the eventual fall of Nazi Germany in 1945.
Apr 2, 2024 · From 1929 until its dissolution in 1945, the SS was headed by Heinrich Himmler, who built up the SS from fewer than 300 members to more than 50,000 by the time the Nazis came to power in 1933.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In 1929, command of the SS was handed to Heinrich Himmler, a little-known office clerk from Munich. Physically and professionally, Himmler appeared of little significance – but he proved to be a diligent worker and organiser, politically astute, obsessed with racial purity and utterly loyal to Hitler.
January 1929. Hitler appoints Heinrich Himmler Reichsführer-SS (Reich Leader of the SS). Summer 1931. Himmler creates the Security Service ( Sicherheitsdienst- SD) of the Nazi Party. December 1931.
In January 1929, at a time when the SS numbered 280 men, Hitler appointed Heinrich Himmler Reichsführer-SS (Reich Leader of the SS). Himmler saw an opportunity to develop an elite corps of the Nazi party based on race-nationalist ( völkisch) visions of “racial purity,” and loyalty to Hitler as the personification of the future of the German nation.
The familiar Nazi eagle and Totenkopf on an SS cap. Image courtesy Friedrich Berthold. The Schutzstaffel (SS) was formed on Hitler’s order in April 1925. It began as a small, specialised unit of the Sturmabteilung (SA) with a specific role: providing bodyguards for Hitler and other high-ranking Nazis (the name Schutzstaffel means ‘protective staff’).
