Ernst Röhm

Ernst Julius Röhm (1887–1934) was an Imperial German army officer and later a Nazi leader. He was a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Battalion"; SA), the Nazi Party militia, eventually emerging as the SA's commander. In 1934, he was a executed on Adolf Hitler's order as part of the Night of the Long Knives. Hitler had come to see Röhm as a potential rival, and ordered his arrest. Röhm was given the opportunity to commit suicide, but instead demanded to be shot by his captors.

Ernst Röhm The War That Came Early
Although Ernst Röhm had been dead for four years by the time of the 1938 Munich Conference, Adolf Hitler still considered the execution of Röhm and The Night of the Long Knives as one of several successes leading up to the conference and the war Hitler wanted to launch in Europe.