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1 giorno fa · Historically the German military leadership were no friends of democracy, a fact that commander in chief Hans von Seeckt made no secret of. Under his leadership, the Reichswehr gradually came to isolate itself from the government and become a “state within the state”, circumventing the Treaty of Versailles by adopting clandestine training and armament programs, often in cooperation with ...
2 giorni fa · The commander in chief, Hans von Seeckt, argued that there had been an excessive focus on encirclement and emphasised speed instead. Seeckt inspired a revision of Bewegungskrieg (maneuver warfare) thinking and its associated Auftragstaktik in which the commander expressed his goals to subordinates and gave them discretion in how to ...
1 giorno fa · One of the most punctual advocates was British military scholar J.F.C. More full, whose thoughts on armored warfare affected German military procedure. Hans von Seeckt, head of the German Army's Reichswehr within the 1920s, too played a noteworthy part by emphasizing versatile fighting and the integration of distinctive military branches.
1 giorno fa · The Reichswehr was limited to 115,000 men, and thus the armed forces, under the leadership of Hans von Seeckt, retained only the most capable officers. The American historians Alan Millet and Williamson Murray wrote "In reducing the officers corps, Seeckt chose the new leadership from the best men of the general staff with ruthless disregard for other constituencies, such as war heroes and the ...
1 giorno fa · The Reichswehr under the Chief of Army Command, General Hans von Seeckt, who had his own governmental ambitions directed against left-wing parties and Weimar parliamentarism, behaved loyally towards the Stresemann government only with respect to his own interests.
6 giorni fa · Military Leaders of World War I: Official and Private Papers of Generaloberst Hans von Seeckt This link opens in a new window Letters and other papers of Generaloberst Hans von Seeckt, prominent German military strategist of World War I, military head of the Reichswehr and "father" of the army of the German Republic.
6 giorni fa · The author, in his bid to become a coryphaeus in history, offers up a lot of names and dates but glances over a number of events. Namely the role of the Soviet state in restoring the armed forces of Germany. Then head of the German army, Gen. Hans von Seeckt was put in contact with representatives of Moscow in 1920.
