The term Sturmabteilung basically represents the founding of the Nazi Party in 1919. Instead of large mass assaults they were organized into small squads of a few soldiers each. The first official stormtroop unit was authorized March 2 1915 the German high command ordered the Corps to form a detachment to test experimental weapons and tactics which could break the deadlock on the Western Front on October 2,1916.

From April 1924 until February 1925 the brownshirts was known as the frontbrann to try to change Bavarias ban on the Nazi Party and its organs. The SA carried out numbers acts of violence against competing socialist groups throughout the 1920s. Under their popular leader, Rohm, the SA grew in importance within the Nazi power structure growing in size to thousands of members In the early 1930s as the Nazis evolved from an extremist political party to the unquestioned leaders of the government, the SA was no longer needed for its original purpose: the acquisition of political power and the suppression of the enemies of the Party. An organization that could inflict more subtle terror and obedience was needed, and the SA was simply not capable of doing so. The SA also did a threat to the Nazi leadership and to Hitler's goal of co-opting the Reich to his ends, as Rohm's ideal was to fold the "antiquated" German army into a new "people's army" the SA. By 1933, the younger SS was no longer the mere bodyguard of Hitler and showed itself more suited to carry out Hitler's policies thereby taking over the previous roles of the SA.