Word: gessler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President von Hindenburg, attired as a feldmarschall, spent the week at, that picturesque Württemberg spa, Bad Mergentheim, sallied forth daily to watch the maneuvres with Defense Minister Gessler and General von Seeckt. From a hilltop Old Paul von Hindenburg watched in high good humor the game which he once played in such deadly earnest. On the hilltop with him stood a U. S. and a Soviet Russian military observer...
...President and his Defense Minister Gessler were "billeted" at the famed Palace of the Order of the Teutonic Knights at Bad Mergentheim. There they were feted lustily. There Dr. Gessler, tactful, did not recall a certain scandalous incident which occurred in his presence during last year's war games (TIME...
...time Dr. Gessler was standing on a little knoll near Leuthen, Saxony, with General Mueller, commander of the Saxon Reichswehr. A machine gun battery, using ammunition left over from the World War, was firing a barrage over their heads. Suddenly General Mueller clutched his side, fell dead. A bullet, its charge weakened by age, had fallen short...
...Otto Gessler ("Nonpartisan former Democrat") Defense...
Later, eight of the Baron's war comrades bore the coffin to the famed Invaliden Cemetery, while German aces who had fought with him during the War soared above the funeral procession and dropped flowers and wreaths.* President von Hindenburg, Chancellor Luther and War Minister Gessler solemnly accompanied the aging mother of Baron von Richthofen to his new grave. And there were present scores of generals from all parts of Germany, as well as a company of the Baron's Uhlan regiment, which fired a last salute over his grave...