Word: seeckt
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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...
...German concessions: 1) Curtailment of the authority of General von Seeckt, autocratic head of the German Reichswehr. 2) The famed German military police to be demilitarized, and their characteristic green uniform replaced by that of the ordinary police. 3) The German Government to suppress the military training now being given to members of "athletic societies" throughout the Reich...
...offer their congratulations on behalf of the remnant of the Army and Navy came General von Seeckt and Admiral Zenker. To them the President said...
...streets. All Berlin, or so it seemed, was draped in the old Imperial colors-red, white and black. . . . A train steamed into the station. President-elect Hindenburg, his son and daughter-in-law, alighted. The aged Field Marshal was welcomed to Berlin by the Chancellor, his Cabinet, General von Seeckt, Commander of the Reichswehr, many civic authorities. Fraülein Luther presented a bouquet. . . . A procession of automobiles speeded tip the Heerstrasse (Army Street), passed through the Imperial Arch of the Brandenburg Gate, along the Wilhelmstrasse to the German Chancellery. In the first car was the grey-haired Field Marshal...
...quiet, bored way as if murder was all in the day's work. Officially, he was charged with the murder of one Rausch, a barber who had turned traitor to the German Bolsheviki. In his testimony, he admitted lying in wait several times for General von Seeckt, present head of the Reichswehr, because the Cheka had decided that he "must not only be wounded but killed, since otherwise we shall simply be making a mess of things." He and other comrades, Neumann said, had also discussed ways and means of killing the late Hugo Stinnes, because the Cheka...