PFEFFER VON SALOMON, FRANZ
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PFEFFER VON SALOMON, FRANZ (1888–1968), Freikorps* leader;
head of the SA.* Born in Du¨sseldorf, he apparently dropped the last part of his
name (von Salomon) out of sensitivity to anti-Semitic* opinion (he irregularly
used ‘‘von''). Holding the army rank of captain at the end of World War I, he
created the Westphalian Freikorps* (also known as the Pfeffer Freikorps) and
was active in the Baltic* and Upper Silesian* campaigns. The leader of a sabotage
group in the Ruhr, he was also a member of Organisation Consul.*
Pfeffer served in the Westphalian SA as an Oberfu¨hrer before commanding
the entire organization from November 1926 until August 1930. Under his leadership
the SA grew from a disparate group of 6,000 men to a disciplined force
of over 60,000. As a former officer with sound managerial talents, he instituted
a new organizational structure during 1926–1927 that settled the SA's character
until the fall of the Republic. Devised in harmony with Hitler,* the structure
ensured that the SA served as a vital, if subordinate, tool of the NSDAP. Pfeffer
established several auxiliary organizations—for example, SA reserves, naval
forces, and intelligence teams—that increased the SA's overall cohesiveness
while presaging later developments. But growing resentment over Hitler's ‘‘legal''
pursuit of power led to his bitter resignation as Supreme Leader of the SA
(OSAF) during the 1930 election campaign. Despite his aversion to parliamentary
politics, he joined the Reichstag's* NSDAP faction in November 1932.
Arrested by the Gestapo in 1940 and 1944, he survived World War II and spent
his final years in Munich.
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