Oberste SA Fuhrung embroidered cuff title WWII German

Embroidered Oberste SA Fuhrung cuff title WWII German.

The Supreme SA leadership (OSAF) ​​was a National Socialist organization that was responsible for the central management and coordination of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party army of the NSDAP. In practice, her role within the SA as a general association corresponded to the general staff of an army. The abbreviation OSAF was also used for the highest commander of the SA, who was officially called the Supreme SA leader. Organization of the supreme SA leadership After its founding on November 1, 1926, the Supreme SA leadership was initially subordinated to the so-called Supreme SA leader as the commander of the SA. In the first years of its existence, this was Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, who in turn was responsible for Adolf Hitler as the chairman of the NSDAP. After Pfeffer’s dismissal and the fundamental reform of the SA in 1930, Hitler himself assumed nominally the office and title of Supreme SA Leader and thus command authority over the SA. However, since he was practically unable due to his numerous other tasks and functions to carry out the business of the head of the Supreme SA leadership in their daily routine, the tasks of the Supreme SA leader actually went to the owner of the Reform of the newly created office of the chief of staff of the SA: from 1930 to 1934 this was Ernst Röhm, then from 1934 to 1943 Viktor Lutze and finally Wilhelm Schepmann. The public often misunderstood that the positions of the chief of staff and the chief SA leader were identical. For example, in June 1934, SA Obergruppenführer Edmund Heines had to explain to General von Kleist that Hitler and not Röhm was the highest SA leader. The headquarters of the supreme SA leadership was in Munich, where they used the premises in Barerstrasse 7–11. Since 1931 at the latest, the chief of staff of the SA had an office in the Brown House. In July 1934, the top SA leadership was moved from Munich to Berlin. There she was provided with rooms in the Palais Borsig.