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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.
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.
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.
Walther Wenck (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈvɛŋk]; 18 September 1900 – 1 May 1982) was a German officer and industrialist. He was the youngest General of the branch [1] (General der Truppengattung) in the German Army and a staff officer during World War II. At the end of the war, he commanded the German Twelfth Army that took part in the Battle of ...
On 1 April 1905 he returned to the General Staff and on 1 April 1906 he was appointed chief of the 1st company of the 4th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 72 in Torgau. [4] On 1 October 1907 he returned to the General Staff and simultaneously with his promotion to Major, on 10 September 1908, he took over as commander of the II Battalion in the ...
"Kursk: The German View" by Steven H. Newton. The first part of the book goes to a new translation of a study of Operation Citadel (the great tank battle of Kursk) edited by General Theodor Busse, which offers the perspectives of key tank, infantry, and air commanders.
In August 1916 he was transferred to the Oberste Heeresleitung (OHL; Supreme Army Command) and appointed chief of the operations department of the General Staff of the Field Army. In this role he was responsible for planning several major German offensives of the war. On 11 December 1916 he received the Pour le Mérite.
Dietrich Graf von Hülsen-Haeseler (13 February 1852 – 14 November 1908) was an infantry general of the German Empire. He attended the War College and was attached to the German General Staff in 1882. In 1889 he was made aide de camp to Kaiser Wilhelm II, whom he had known since boyhood.