Roehm was Hitler’s superior officer in the Freikorps. In the early days, the SA protected the Nazi Party, not the other way around.
I read somewhere that Roehm was plotting to remove Hitler, and then replace the German Army with an SA-lead People’s Army.
It’s a shame that Roehm couldn’t pull it off. Because Roehm would have later on been pushed out of power by the generals. Then maybe no WW II.