Word: commandered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More important for the present is the personality of the Field Marshal. In 1914. he was recalled from the retirement into which he had been sent by the Kaiser, appointed to the command of the Eighth Army and as such won the immortal (from the German point of view) victories of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes. He was subsequently promoted to be Field Marshal, appointed Chief of the General Staff (the highest Army position) in succession to Falkenhayn...
...when Royal feet were running and the great soldiers were subject to public execration, Hindenburg stood firm. He placed himself at the disposal of the Provisional Republican Government and led the defeated German Army home to its dis bandment, remaining in active command until July 3, 1919. For this, he earned the gratitude of the Government and the people and the admiration of the Allies...
...Cabinet crisis continued, Premier Theunis retaining power ad interim; but the King was hourly expected to call upon a prominent Catholic to form a Socialist-Catholic coalition which, if possible, would command the huge majority of 127 in the Chamber and 107 in the Senate...
...General Sir William Birdwood, the famous commander of the Anzac (Australian-New Zealand Army Corps) Division in the War, was transferred from command of the Northern Army, promoted to the rank of Field Marshal and appointed Commander-in-Chief in India. It is the first time in history that an officer has been promoted to the supreme military rank on appointment as the military head of British India...
...remained indurately opposed to accepting nomination until a loud knock sounded on the door of No. 15 Wedekindstrasse, Hanover, and Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz appeared to undermine Hindenburg's resistance. It was subsequently given out on the slenderest authority that the ex-Kaiser at Doorn had intervened to command the old man to stand for election ; and that the latter, faithful and true to the former Emperor and King, had immediately made Tirpitz's heart glad by accepting the nomination...