In April 1924, Röhm became a "Reichstag" deputy for the "völkisch" (racial-national) National Socialist Freedom Party. He made only one speech, urging the release of Lieutenant Colonel Kriebel. The seats won by his party were much reduced in the December 1924 election, and his name was too far down the list to return him to the "Reichstag". While Hitler was in prison, Röhm helped to create the "Frontbann" as a legal alternative to the then-outlawed "Sturmabteilung" (SA). Hitler did not fully support the ambitious plans that Röhm had for this organization, which proved problematic. Hitler was distrustful of these paramilitary organizations because competing groups like the "Bund Wiking", the "Bund Bayern und Reich", and the "Blücherbund" were all vying for membership and he realized from the failed putsch that these groups could not be legitimized so long as the police and "Reichwehr" stayed loyal to the government. When in April 1925 Hitler and Ludendorff disapproved of the proposals under which Röhm was prepared to integrate the 30,000-strong "Frontbann" into the SA, Röhm resigned from all political groups and military brigades on 1 May 1925. He felt great contempt for the "legalistic" path the party leaders wanted to follow and sought seclusion from public life. In 1928, he accepted a post in Bolivia as adviser to the Bolivian Army, where he was given the rank of lieutenant colonel. In the autumn of 1930, Röhm received a telephone call from Hitler requesting his return to Germany.