context: After working briefly as a trader in a fertilizer manufacturing company, Himmler joined Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei and in November 1923 participated in the Beer Hall Putsch as a mail bearer on Ernst Roehm's side. On party reform, his intelligence and loyalty were rewarded with his appointment as Hitler's personal bodyguard in January 1929. The black-shirted Schutzstaffel, better known as the SS, has only 200 members. Under his leadership this small force developed into a large army during the "Third Reich".
question: When was Heinrich Luitpold Himmler appointed German commander of Schutzstaffel?
answers.text: January 1929