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The German General Staff, originally the Prussian General Staff and officially the Great General Staff (German: Großer Generalstab), was a full-time body at the head of the Prussian Army and later, the German Army, responsible for the continuous study of all aspects of war, and for drawing up and reviewing plans for mobilization or campaign.
Ludwig August Theodor Beck (German: [ˈluːt.vɪç bɛk] ⓘ; 29 June 1880 – 20 July 1944) was a German general and Chief of the German General Staff during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany before World War II.
Dollmann was assigned to the wartime General Staff on 5 November 1917, as part of the 6th Infantry Division. He was transferred to the Bavarian General Staff, where on 21 January 1918 he took command of the 6th Army. [5] In March 1919, he was appointed to the Ministry of Military Affairs and then onto the Peace Commission of the General Staff. [3]
Gotthard Fedor August Heinrici (German: [ˈɡɔthaʁt haɪnˈʁiːtsi]; 25 December 1886 – 10 December 1971) [1] was a German general during World War II. Heinrici is considered to have been the premier defensive expert of the Wehrmacht.
Erich Marcks (6 June 1891 – 12 June 1944) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II.He authored the first draft of the operational plan, Operation Draft East, for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, advocating what was later known as A-A line as the goal for the Wehrmacht to achieve, within nine to seventeen weeks.
The book was known by the nickname "Tante Frieda" [1] or "T.F." [2] A modified form is still in use today by the Federal German Army (Deutsches Heer). [ citation needed ] The approximate equivalent U.S. Army field-manual was FM 100–5 , now re-issued as FM 3–0, Operations (with later revisions) and available for download at the U.S. Army ...
After his recovery, he rose to the rank of Generalmajor, and served on the army General Staff in Adolf Hitler's headquarters. Dethleffsen was arrested on 23 May 1945, and was held until March 1948 in an American Prisoner of War Camp. He was originally held in Luxembourg with Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and others.
Ernst Haeckel (general) Siegfried Haenicke; Wolf Hagemann; Oskar von dem Hagen; Walther Hahm; Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord; Siegfried Handloser; Hermann von Hanneken (soldier) Christian Hansen (general) Erik Hansen (general) Gustav Harteneck; Alexander von Hartmann; Otto Hartmann (general) Walter Hartmann; Friedrich Haselmayr; Wilhelm Hasse ...