Hans von Seeckt

Hans von Seeckt (22 April 1866 - 27 December 1936) was a German soldier. Colonel-General Hans von Seeckt Source: [1] The German wikipedia was satisfied that the image is in public domain or something similar. ... Colonel-General Hans von Seeckt Source: [1] The German wikipedia was satisfied that the image is in public domain or something similar. ... April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 1866 is a common year starting on Monday. ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Born in Schleswig, he entered the army in 1885 and was seconded to the General Staff in 1899. During World War I Seeckt served in various high-level staff positions on the Eastern Front, including Chief of Staff to August von Mackensen while the latter commanded the Eleventh Army. After the end of the war and the dissolution of the old imperial army it fell to Seeckt to organize the new Reichswehr and a replacement General Staff (which was named the Truppenamt - Troop Office). He is also known for his hostile attitude towards newly recreated Polish state, and for seeking an alliance with then bolshevik Russia against Poland. Seeckt's role during the Kapp Putsch of 1920 remains uncertain; he refused to either actively put down the rebellion or combine with it. His remark to the leaders of the republic, that "Reichswehr do not fire on Reichswehr", was and is controversial. In working to build a non-political professional army within and without the confines of the Treaty of Versailles Seeckt perpetuated the concept of the army as a state-within-a-state. He was eventually forced out in 1926 after permitting a son of the former Kaiser to attend army maneuvers without first seeking government approval. Schleswig coat of arms Schleswig is a town at the Schlei firth in the northeastern part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The German General Staff or Großer Generalstab was the most important German weapon for nearly two centuries. ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... the world war was a time of cheese ... The Eastern Front refers to a theatre of war during the first World War in Central and, primarily, Eastern Europe. ... Field Marshal August von Mackensen August von Mackensen (December 6, 1849–November 8, 1945), was a German Field Marshal, born August Mackensen in Haus Leipnitz, in the Prussian province of Saxony, to Louis and Marie Louise Mackensen. ... The Reichswehr (literally National Defence or National Militia) formed the military organization of Germany from 1918 until 1935, when the government rebranded it as the Wehrmacht (Defence Force). ... The word Putsch literally means a thrust or blow. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Woodrow Wilson with the American Peace Commissioners The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 is the peace treaty created as a result of six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, which put an official end to World War I between the Allies and Central Powers. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany (27 January 1859–4 June 1941), also known as William II, was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and the last King (König) of Prussia, ruling from 1888 to 1918. ...

From 1930 to 1932 he sat in the Reichstag as a member of the DVP; from 1934 to 1935 he served as an advisor to Chiang Kai-shek. 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... The German Peoples Party (Deutsche Volkspartei, or DVP) was founded by the more right-wing elements of the old National Liberal Party in the early days of the Weimar Republic, led by Gustav Stresemann. ... 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887–April 5, 1975) was a Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. ...

Quotes

• " Poland’s existence is intolerable and incompatible with the essential conditions of Germany’s life. Poland must go and will go - as a result of her own internal weaknesses and of action by Russia - with our aid [...] The obliteration of Poland must be one of the fundamental drives of German policy [...] (and) is attainable by means of, and with the help of, Russia."
• “The Weimar Constitution... ran counter to my political thinking... [however], I have... held it to be my duty to make the [military]... support... the empire... [and not any] particular government... It has been my endeavor... to keep the Reichswehr aloof from all... politics.”

Further reading

• Craig, Gordon. The Politics of the Prussian Army 1640-1945. Oxford University Press, 1964.
• Corum, James. The Roots of Blitzkrieg. University Press of Kansas, 1992.
• Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John The Nemesis of Power: German Army in Politics, 1918-1945 New York: Palgrave Macmillan Publishing Company, 2005.

Gordon Alexander Craig (November 13, 1913-) is a Scottish-born U.S historian of German, Swiss and of diplomatic history. ... Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett, GCVO, MCG, OBE, FRSL, FBA, (October 13, 1902-December 9, 1975) was a conservative British historian of German and diplomatic history. ...

Wilhelm Groener (November 22, 1867 - May 3, 1939) was a German soldier and politician. ... The German General Staff or Großer Generalstab was the most important German weapon for nearly two centuries. ...