Hermann Gring gave command of the Gestapo to a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany in 1999.
 Using the SS for the task, Hitler purged the party's more socially and economically radical factions in the mid-1934 Night of the Long Knives, including the leadership of the SA
 Schacht resigned on 8 December 1937, and Walther Funk took over the position, as well as control of the Reichsbank

