Erhard Heiden (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Erhard Heiden was an early member of the Nazi Party and the third commander of the Schutzstaffel. Heiden was a Nazi stormtrooper who, in 1925, joined a small stormtrooper bodyguard unit known as the Schutzstaffel. Heiden was an early advocate of separating the SS from its master organization, the Sturmabteilung, and in March 1927 he was appointed Reichsfhrer-SS in an attempt to keep the SS from being disbanded under SA desires