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...surprised as the mothers at this curious meeting were Herr Otto Karl Gessler, onetime (1920-28) German War Minister, and his staff of ten former German army officers, who had visited the U. S. cemetery that morning to get ideas for improving German cemeteries in the same district...
Most gratifying to sound, representative Germans was the appointment, last week, of General Wilhelm Groener to be Minister of Defense, succeeding famed Dr. Otto Gessler, who held that post for seven years prior to his recent retirement (TIME...
Last week Dr. Gessler's words had an honest ring. He is in ill health. Fate has just dealt him a "personal blow" by striking dead, during the past twelvemonth, his two flourishing sons, and, last week, his mother. Since the Fatherland is secure and Otto Gessler stricken, why should he not rest...
Last week stubborn, tenacious Dr. Gessler suddenly transmitted to President Paul von Hindenburg his resignation, giving as his reasons, "my ill health and the effects of a personal blow of Fate." Deeply concerned, old Paul von Hindenburg kept the resignation secret for two days, conveyed to Dr. Gessler the hope and the sincere wish that he would reconsider...
Because correspondents assume that no statesman ever resigns "because of ill health" they sought but failed to find a political motive. Time was when the Allied nations fairly howled for Gessler's official head, imputing to him the organization of secret German defense units: "The Black Reichswehr." This and a score more of tempests and squalls could not unhorse him. Tomorrow would have brought him only a few more tilts and joustings with statesmen and politicians whom he has often worsted...