Could Roehme have taken power in Nazi Germany

which would probably fail since the SA outnumbered them more than 20 to 1 and a lot of reichswer junior officers where into the nazis
How did you get this number. My informations state 400.000 active members in january 33 (the only more or less reliable street thugs) which in my book is a superiority of 4 to 1. And the nazi sympathizer in the army will most certainly not support the left wing of the party (Röhm). They agreed to the nationalist part not the the socialist part of the NS program. Add the far better training of the Reichswehr, the support of the Prussian police and all other fighting organisations like the Stahlhelm (500 000 men in 1930 and mostly better leadership ) and the Reichsbanner (250000 in the Schufos alone) who will fight against Röhm also and Röhm is toast if he grabs the power. Yes I know the Reichsbanner was dissolved in 33 but they can be reactivated fast if necessary.
 
How did you get this number. My informations state 400.000 active members in january 33 (the only more or less reliable street thugs) which in my book is a superiority of 4 to 1. And the nazi sympathizer in the army will most certainly not support the left wing of the party (Röhm). They agreed to the nationalist part not the the socialist part of the NS program. Add the far better training of the Reichswehr, the support of the Prussian police and all other fighting organisations like the Stahlhelm (500 000 men in 1930 and mostly better leadership ) and the Reichsbanner (250000 in the Schufos alone) who will fight against Röhm also and Röhm is toast if he grabs the power. Yes I know the Reichsbanner was dissolved in 33 but they can be reactivated fast if necessary.

the sa had a huge number of men in ersatzreserven which made their theoretical mobilzation nearly 2 million
 
Which were probably even less combat worthy than active formations. And I somehow doubt the other formations (excluding Reichswehr and police) had no reserves. The Schufos for example are only the elite formations of the Reichsbanner, they were supported by the less trained (SA level) Stafos and the youth organisation Jungbanner. I simply don´t see a possible victory of Röhm even if he is willing to risk a drawn out civil war. The numbers favour him not really: Lets take the fall of 33: 2 million SA men (taking your numbers) against 100,000 soldiers, 500,000 Stahlhelm men, 250,000 Reichsbanner elite men supported by the rest of this former 3 million members organisation and the SS with another 204,000 men.
 
Other than Rohm were there any other figures in the non-Hitlerian factions? Like what's with the Strasser brothers, were they popular and ideologically distinct?
 
Let's say Röhm putches in '34 before Hitler can kill him. The Reichswehr is dissolved and replaced by the SA, effectively. The SS is destroyed. New Führer Röhm has a big army on paper, but can't start a real war with it. Now he may try to remilitarize the Rhineland - and maybe France won't start a war for the Germans occupying German ground. But then, if he tries to take over Austria next (as the nazis tried in '34), Mussolini may interfere because he thinks that the nazis are "murderers and pederasts" (O-tone Mussolini).

Röhm's SA versus Mussolini's army fighting in Austria. An army of thugs (albeit motivated) versus a not-so-great professional army. "Not gegen Elend" (poverty versus hardship), as the saying goes.

Who wins? Really hard to tell.
 
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