HERMANN GÖRING, ERNST RÖHM AND ????

[asturwaffen]

This photo is an original one of my collection. In her they are seen Göring and Röhm perfectly. If somebody can identify some of the remaining people I thank for it.

Thanks

[Michael Miller]

SS officer standing directly behind Röhm is the eventual SS-Obergruppenführer / Staatssekretär / Oberstleutnant d.R. Paul "Pilli" Koerner, who was to become Göring's right-hand man in the Office of the Four-Year Plan.

Best wishes,
~Mike Miller / ABR

[Georges JEROME]

Picture taken at the Weeding of SA Gruf Karl ERNST
the leader of SA Group East in 33 or 34

best

Georges

[Andreas Schulz]

I think the bride groom is SA-Gruppenführer Karl Ernst, leader of the SA-Obergruppe III (SA-Gruppen Berlin-Brandenburg und Ostmark).

AnDie

[Georges JEROME]

4 row in the middle is SS Gruf Rolf REINER Chef des Ministeramt of Roehm.

[Michael Miller]

Georges! Many thanks for that, re: Reiner (who, with Bergmann, was one of the luckiest men in Germany and the world on 30 June 1934). With that ID, I can now identify the man in a superb portrait photo of an SS-Gruf. with what appear to be red Gruf. collar insignia- it is indeed Reiner in my photo.

Just remembered something- I was supposed to mail some documentation to you. Terribly sorry for a ridiculous delay. I will mail it shortly.

Sincerely yours,
~ Mike

[Georges JEROME]

Hi Michael,

don't worry, I was too late to sent similar doc. (MdR)
I do it too.

best

Georges

[R.M. Schultz]

Indeed, this photo is of Karl Ernst's wedding!

Ernst, a good-looking Berlin bell-hop, was recruited to Völkish politics (and sodomy) by Berlin Frontbahn commander Paul Röhrbein in 1924 at the age of twenty. Ernst became an SA man when Captain Röhrbein reorganised his Frontbahn contingent as the Berlin SA. Röhrbein was later forced out of the SA because of his habit of recruiting bed partners from among the troopers and was succeeded, first by Ernst Wetzel, and then by Karl Ernst, by that time Röhm's "protegé." Later, after Ernst had apparently been replaced as the Stabschef's primary romantic interest by Graf von Spretti, he got engaged.

This photo was taken just days before the Blood Purge, when Ernst was arrested just before leaving on honeymoon cruise from Hamburg, taken to Berlin and shot. Apparently he offered no resistance to arrest, as he though his arrest was a wedding prank, even commenting on how clever it was for the SS boys to have faked the Hamburg newspaper announcing the arrest of thousands of SA officers. Poor mope …

[asturwaffen]

Thank you very much to all by the fast answers, I have in my collection of photos more people to identify, in the next days I will put some photo.

Thanks
Luisma - España

[WTW26]

Georges! Many thanks for that, re: Reiner (who, with Bergmann, was one of the luckiest men in Germany and the world on 30 June 1934). With that ID, I can now identify the man in a superb portrait photo of an SS-Gruf. with what appear to be red Gruf. collar insignia- it is indeed Reiner in my photo.

Mike, could you post the photo here, if it isn't copyrighted?