Karl Leon du Moulin-Eckart

Sturmabteilung (SA) Fascists and Nazis 1900–1991 ○ Natural causes

Count and close aide of Ernst Röhm who headed the SA intelligence service and survived the Night of the Long Knives

Röhm’s confidant and head of SA intelligence in 1931–1932, he was one of the few SA leaders arrested in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934 who escaped execution.

Born in Munich, the son of the historian Richard Count du Moulin-Eckart, he served in the Freikorps Epp in 1919 and helped crush the Ruhr uprising in 1920. From 1922 he was Ernst Röhm’s orderly officer, and in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch he acted as Ludendorff’s courier. After a doctorate in law in 1927 he joined the staff of Röhm, newly SA chief of staff, in 1931 and headed the SA intelligence service until 1932. Arrested in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934, he escaped execution; acquitted that autumn of abetting Röhm under Paragraph 175, he was nonetheless held in concentration camps, Dachau among them, until 1936. He later served as a reserve officer in the Second World War and died in Oberviechtach in 1991.

Also known as: Carl-Leon Du Moulin-Eckart