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Kurt von Schleicher was born in Brandenburg an der Havel, the son of Prussian officer and noble Hermann Friedrich Ferdinand von Schleicher (1853–1906) and a wealthy East Prussian shipowner's daughter, Magdalena Heyn (1857–1939). He had an older sister, Thusnelda Luise Amalie Magdalene (1879–1955), and a younger brother, Ludwig-Ferdinand ...
The von Schleicher cabinet, headed by Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher, was the 20th government of the Weimar Republic. Schleicher assumed office on 3 December 1932 after he had pressured his predecessor, Franz von Papen , to resign.
Kurt von Schleicher took advantage of the situation to work against Brüning and especially Wilhelm Groener, who was both Reichswehr and Interior minister. He was forced to resign on 12 May. Schleicher at that point was negotiating behind the scenes for a new government that would include the NSDAP.
Although Blomberg and his predecessor, Kurt von Schleicher, loathed each other, their feud was purely personal, not political, and in all essentials, Blomberg and Schleicher had identical views on foreign and defense policies. Their dispute was simply over who was best qualified to carry out the policies, not the policies themselves.
Franz von Papen and Kurt Schleicher, the two chancellors who followed Brüning, considered using the Reichswehr as part of their plans to abolish democracy. In addition, one of the presidential cabinets' main objectives was a revision of the Treaty of Versailles that would do away with the military limitations it imposed.
Baron Captain Georg von Trapp was the patriarch of the von Trapp family. He was born in 1880 and served for 24 years in the Austro-Hungarian Navy, where he achieved the country’s highest award ...
The Von Erich's first son, Jack, died in an accident at age 7 in 1959. Then, at age 30, David Von Erich died of acute enteritis in 1984. Mike, Kerry and Chris all committed suicide in 1983, 1991 ...
On 23 January, Papen presented to Hindenburg his idea for Hitler to be made chancellor, while keeping him "boxed" in. [82] On the same day Schleicher, to avoid a vote of no-confidence in the Reichstag when it reconvened on 31 January, asked the president to declare a state of emergency. Hindenburg declined and Schleicher resigned at midday on ...