Peter Röhm in 1936.
Peter Röhm (1892 -1936) was a German mechanic and Sergeant in the Wehrmacht and a distant relative of nazi leader Ernst Rohm.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Peter Röhm was born in 1892 in Bavaria, Germany, being a cousin of SA leader Ernst Rohm. As a teenager and young adult, he was a decorated and undefeated prizefighter. However, after the rise of the Nazi Party, he joined the Wehrmacht and eventually reached the rank of Sergeant.
Egypt[]
In 1936, Peter Röhm served as part of the Nazi effort to locate the Ark of the Covenant in the Well of the Souls at the Tanis digsite outside Cairo, Egypt in 1936. Röhm was regarded as an enormous mountain of a man with a shaven head, though his mechanic skills were quite subpar, only being brought along due to his relation with his cousin. Serving under Colonel Herman Dietrich, Major Anton Gobler, French archaeologist René Emile Belloq and Gestapo agent Major Arnold Ernst Toht, the mechanic was assigned to help prepare for the transportation of the Ark from Tanis to Berlin, Egypt aboard the Flying Wing following the Nazis' locating of the relic.
Death[]
However, American archaeologist Indiana Jones and bar owner Marion Ravenwood intervened, with Röhm engaging Jones in a fist fight. Röhm was a fierce fighter, being both durable and strong, which enabled him to nearly win the fight with Jones. However, just as he was about to finish Jones off, Röhm was eviscerated by the airplane's propeller.