Word: seeckt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agrees thoroughly with Captain Liddell Hart's theory of small armies of technical experts is Germany's General Hans von Seeckt, builder of the Rcichswchr. Because of the Nazi cry for a great army General von Seeckt is at present very much out of the German political picture...
...boost to Chinese morale was the energetically spread rumor that Germany's crack Drillmaster General Hans von Seeckt ("the man with the iron mask and the monocle") was coming to train Chinese armies. The old Junker who organized the Reichswehr. happened to be on a world tour of the Far Kast last week. Before he left Berlin he had left blanket denials that he was going anywhere to drill anybody...
...before Hauptmann von Schleicher won his majority. In the bloody days of 1919 German authorities suddenly discovered the usefulness of quiet, unassuming Major von Schleicher. When the remnants of the old army were being reorganized in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles he helped General Hans von Seeckt organize the Reichswehr and quietly took up a post in the Defense Ministry. In 1926 he became Oberst (Colonel), in 1929 Generalmajor, holding down a job that friends thought should satisfy him for the rest of his life-chief of the Ministry's Organization Department. Apparently he was devoid of ambition...
...good enough for Minister Maginot. Frightened by the bellicose posturings of Mussolini, the blunt pre-election speeches of Germany's bad boy, Cabinet Minister Gottfried R. Treviranus (TiME, Aug. 25), he has been even more impressed by a little book written by that hyper-acute general, Hans von Seeckt, organizer of the German Reichswehr. It is General von Seeckt's premise that the Allies, in limiting Germany's huge conscript army to a professional volunteer force of 100,000 men supplemented by a state police force of 150,000 more, unwittingly gave Germany just the sort of army a modern...
...Vossische Zeituag announced that General Wilhelm Heye of the Reichswehr (standing army) would resign his office after the election. Named as his possible successor was General Kurt von Hammerstein, who was seized as a Republican sympathizer in 1920 on the eve of the Kapp putsch (revolution). General Hans von Seeckt, who organized the Reichswehr so efficiently that Allied influence urged his retirement, made his political debut by accepting the new Conservative People's Party nomination for the Reichstag in the constituency of Magdeburg-Anhalt...