Page "Schutzstaffel" Paragraph 29

In early 1925, the future SS was a single, thirty-man company that was Hitler's personal bodyguard.

In September, all local NSDAP offices were ordered to create body guard units of no more than ten men apiece.

By 1926, six SS-Gaus were established, supervising all such units in Germany.

In turn, the SS-Gaus answered to the SS-Oberleitung, the headquarters unit.

The SS-Oberleitung answered to the office of the Supreme SA Leader ( Oberste SA-Führer ), Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, clearly establishing the SS as a subordinate unit of the Sturmabteilung.