14 Facts About Karl Ernst

Karl Ernst was an SA- who, from March 1933, was the SA commander in Berlin.

Karl Ernst was born in Berlin in 1904, the son of a cavalryman.

Karl Ernst became involved in the national youth movement in 1918, joining the, a right wing youth association, and the.

Professionally, Karl Ernst pursued various jobs in the service industry during these years.

Karl Ernst was successively a commercial clerk, bank clerk, buyer, secretary, correspondent, waiter and bellboy in Berlin, Mainz and Danzig.

From 1927 to March 1931, Karl Ernst worked on the staff of the Supreme SA leadership in Munich.

From 14 October to 14 December 1931, Karl Ernst was the of the reorganized SA- Berlin-Brandenburg.

Karl Ernst now commanded all SA troops in the capital area and the Province of Brandenburg as the representative of the SA Supreme Command.

Karl Ernst was elected as a Nazi deputy to the Reichstag for electoral constituency 3 at the July 1932 German federal election.

Karl Ernst was reelected from there in November 1932 and then in March 1933 and again in November 1933, both times from constituency 2.

On 4 August 1933, Karl Ernst was appointed to the Prussian State Council by Prussian Minister President Hermann Goring.

On 30 June 1934, Karl Ernst had just recently married and was in Bremen on his way to Tenerife to honeymoon with his new wife.

SA Leader Karl Ernst Rohm had repeatedly called for a "second revolution" that would introduce socialism into the Reich and banish the old Conservative forces of business and government.

Karl Ernst was arrested and brutally beaten in Bremerhaven together with his wife and his friend Martin Kirschbaum as he was about to get aboard a navy cruiser in order to travel to Tenerife where he planned to spend his honeymoon.