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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.
Generals of the Imperial German Army during World War I (1914-1918). Germany portal; Pages in category "German Army generals of World War I"
Jakob Ritter von Danner (7 August 1865 in Queichheim/Landau – 28 December 1942 in Munich) was a general in the Royal Bavarian Army, the Imperial German Army and the Reichswehr. As commandant of the Munich garrison of the Reichswehr , he was a central figure in putting down the attempted Beer Hall Putsch by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in 1923.
Pages in category "Bavarian generals" ... Christian of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken (1752–1817) ... (1782–1859) D. Jakob Ritter von Danner; Hannibal von Degenfeld;
Richard von Kühlmann - German Foreign Minister (1917–1918) Paul von Hintze - German Foreign Minister (1918) Helmuth von Moltke [14] − Chief of the German General Staff (1906–1914) Erich von Falkenhayn [15] − Chief of the German General Staff (1914–1916) and commander in the First Battle of the Marne
adjudant general of the Empire 1914: Helmuth von Moltke the Younger: 1848: 1916: Chief of the German General Staff: 1914: Josias von Heeringen: 1850: 1926: Prussian Minister of War and army commander 1914: Max Freiherr von Hausen: 1846: 1922: Minister-President of Saxony and German Army commander 1914: Alexander von Kluck: 1846: 1934: Prussian ...
The vast majority of the people promoted to field marshal won major battles in wars of their time. Field marshals played a compelling and influential role in military matters, were tax-exempt, members of the nobility, equal to government officials, under constant protection or escort, and had the right to directly report to the royal family. [3]
The plan's creator, Alfred von Schlieffen, head of the German General Staff from 1891 to 1906, estimated that this would take six weeks, after which the German army would transfer to the East and defeat the Russians. [65] The plan was substantially modified by his successor, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger. Under Schlieffen, 85% of German forces ...