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    Johannes "Hans" Friedrich Leopold von Seeckt (22 April 1866 – 27 December 1936) was a German military officer who served as Chief of Staff to August von Mackensen...
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    von Blomberg as Reichswehr Minister. The head of army command was initially General Walther Reinhardt. After the Kapp Putsch, General Hans von Seeckt...
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  • it had relied on until then to supplement the Reichswehr. General Hans von Seeckt thought that the Reichswehr no longer had enough men available to guard...
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    Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (pronounced [ˈpaʊl ˈluːtvɪç hans ˈantoːn fɔn ˈbɛnəkn̩dɔʁf ʔʊnt fɔn ˈhɪndn̩bʊʁk] ; abbreviated...
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    very experienced officer, he worked with the Army High Command under Hans von Seeckt and in the Ministry of the Reichswehr, before retiring in 1929 due...
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    imposed a military state of emergency across Germany and told General Hans von Seeckt to do "whatever was necessary to secure the Reich". In spite of Bavaria's...
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    Reichenau, Dietrich von Saucken, Wilhelm Keitel, Dietrich von Choltiz, Hans von Seeckt, and Hugo Sperrle. Monocles were most prevalent in the late 19th century...
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    appointed chief of staff of the Stuttgart Army Area. In 1925, General Hans von Seeckt appointed him chief of army training. By 1927, Blomberg was a major-general...
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    the Austro-Hungarian Fourth Army. As chief of staff, he was assigned Hans von Seeckt, who described Mackensen as an amiable, "hands-on commander with the...
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    Reichswehr and rose through the ranks. In the early 1920s, General Hans von Seeckt, chief of the Army Command, named Bock head of a group tasked with...
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