Editing Gregor Strasser (section)

==Later life==

===Life after politics===
Having renounced his seat in the Reichstag, Strasser sought to return to his pre-politics profession as a pharmacist. Through his own connections and with Hitler's consent he was provided with the opportunity to take up a directorship of Schering-Kahlbaum, a chemical-pharmaceutical company that was the Berlin subsidiary of [[IG Farben]], so long as he promised to cease all political activity, which he did.{{sfn|Stachura|1983|p=121}} He detached himself from politics, refusing to meet former political associates and, contrary to some reports, had no contact with his brother Otto's [[Black Front]] organisation.{{sfn|Stachura|1983|p=123}}

===Death===
Having achieved national power in January 1933, Hitler and the NSDAP began eliminating all forms of opposition in Germany. In what became known as the [[Night of the Long Knives]], the entire SA leadership was purged, which took place from 30{{nbsp}}June to 2{{nbsp}}July 1934.{{sfn|Evans|2005|pp=31–41}} Hitler, along with other top Nazis such as [[Hermann Göring]] and Himmler, targeted [[Ernst Röhm]] and other SA leaders who, along with some of Hitler's political adversaries, were rounded up, arrested, and shot by members of the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' (SS) and [[Gestapo]].{{sfn|Kershaw|2008|pp=309–314}} Among them was Strasser. Historian [[Richard J. Evans]] surmises that Strasser was most likely killed for having been allegedly offered a position by the predecessor conservative Weimar government, a tie which made him a potential political enemy, due to the personal enmity of Himmler and Göring, both of whom Strasser had been critical of during his role in the party's leadership.{{sfn|Evans|2005|pp=34–35}} Whether Strasser was killed on Hitler's personal orders is not known.{{sfn|Stachura|1983|p=123}} He was shot once in the main artery from behind in his cell but did not die immediately. On the orders of SS general [[Reinhard Heydrich]], Strasser was left to bleed to death, which took almost an hour.{{sfn|Read|2005|p=372}} His brother Otto had emigrated in 1933.{{sfn|Nicholls|2000|pp=253–254}}{{sfn|Longerich|2015|p=130}}