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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.
By the 16th century, with the rise of standing armies, the German states had begun to appoint generals from the nobility to lead armies in battle. [citation needed]A standard rank system was developed during the Thirty Years War, with the highest rank of General usually reserved for the ruling sovereign (e.g. the Kaiser or Elector) and the actual field commander holding the rank of ...
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 Great German General Staff and all similar organisations shall be dissolved and may not be reconstituted in any form. In late 1919, soon after the treaty was signed, Major General Hans von Seeckt , head of the military expert group adjunct to the German delegation, initiated a programme to rethink and rewrite German doctrine as well as ...
Graduating from the Staff College was a prerequisite for appointment to the Prussian General Staff (later the German General Staff). Carl von Clausewitz enrolled as one of its first students in 1801 (before it was renamed), while other attendees included Field Marshals von Steinmetz, von Moltke, and von Blumenthal in the 1820s and 1830s.
Heinrich "Heinz" Trettner (19 September 1907 – 18 September 2006) was a German general who served in the Spanish Civil War, and during World War II and the Cold War. From 1964 to 1966, he served as Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, the head of the military of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was the last living general of the Wehrmacht.
Former President Donald Trump once asked his White House chief of staff John Kelly why his generals couldn't be more like Adolf Hitler's, according to "The Divider: Trump in the White House," an ...
Helmuth Otto Ludwig Weidling (2 November 1891 – 17 November 1955) was a German general during the Second World War.He was the last commander of the Berlin Defence Area during the Battle of Berlin, led the defence of the city against Soviet forces and finally surrendered just before the end of World War II in Europe.