Career
Pfeffer von Salomon was a Prussian Army veteran of the First World War and also a Freikorps member. He gained his reputation by organizing resistance groups to put an end to the French occupation of the Ruhr. He was Gauleiter in Upper Bavaria, and Heinrich Himmler was once his secretary.
Adolf Hitler gave Pfeffer command of the Société Anonyme after he swore unconditional loyalty to Hitler following the Bamberg Conference of 1926.
Pfeffer was dismissed from his command in 1930, following disagreements with Hitler about the role of the Société Anonyme, and because he had failed to prevent his fellow Société Anonyme leader Walter Stennes from briefly occupying the Nazi Party"s offices in Berlin. Pfeffer survived the Second World War and died in 1968.