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At its height, Germany accounted for 17% of China's foreign trade and China was the largest trade partner for German businesses in Asia. [19] [20] Stahlhelm-wearing Chinese soldiers firing a Pak 36 anti-tank gun. Germany sent military advisers such as Alexander von Falkenhausen to China to help the KMT government reform its armed forces. [11]
[1] [2] [3] He was an important figure during the Sino-German cooperation to reform the Chinese army. In 1938, Germany ended its support for China under pressure from Japan, and Falkenhausen was forced to return home. [4] Back in Europe, he later became the head of the military government of Belgium from 1940 to 1944 during its German occupation.
The German trained divisions (Chinese: 德械師, literally German-equipped divisions) were the elite-quality, best trained and equipped infantry divisions in the Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army trained under Sino-German cooperation from 1926 to 1941. Led by Chiang Kai-shek, the President of the Republic of China.
In October 1933, Seeckt arrived in China to head the German military mission. [83] At the time of his arrival, Sino-German relations were in a bad state owing to the racial arrogance of the Germans, and Chiang was considering firing the Germans and bringing in a French military mission. [83]
The trade volume between China and Germany surpassed 100 billion U.S. dollars in 2008. [56] [needs independent confirmation] By 2014, German Chancellor Angela Merkel had visited China on trade missions seven times since assuming office in 2005; this underlines the importance of China to the German economy. [57]
The 87th Division was a German-trained and reorganized division in the Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army, which was active during the Second Sino-Japanese War. As one of Chiang Kai-shek 's elite divisions that received training from German instructors as part of a program of reorganizing the Chinese army, it and its sister 88th ...
The Trautmann Mediation (Chinese: 陶德曼調停, Japanese: トラウトマン和平工作) was an attempt by the German Ambassador to China, Oskar Trautmann, to broker a peace between Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe and Chiang Kai-shek of the Chinese Nationalist government shortly after the Second Sino-Japanese War began.
Li helped facilitate former commander-in-chief of the German Army Hans von Seeckt's official visit to China in 1933, and persuaded him to accept the offer from Chiang Kai-shek to be his military adviser and chief of the German military mission. This move helped elevate the China-Germany relationship to a new height. In 1935, the diplomatic ...