Walther Reinhardt
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Walther Reinhardt was a German officer who served as the last Prussian Minister of War
and the first head of the army command (Chef der Heeresleitung) within the Ministry of the Reichswehr
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Prussian Minister of War
The Prussian War Ministry was gradually established between 1808 and 1809 as part of a series of reforms initiated by the Military Reorganization Commission created after the disastrous Treaty of Paris. The War Ministry was to help bring the army under constitutional control, and, along with the...
and the first head of the army command (Chef der Heeresleitung) within the Ministry of the Reichswehr
Ministry of the Reichswehr
In the history of Germany, the Ministry of the Reichswehr was the defence ministry of the Weimar Republic and the early Third Reich. The 1919 Weimar Constitution provided for a unified, national ministry of defence to coordinate the new Reichswehr, and that ministry was set up in October 1919,...
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External links
- Biography - Bundesarchiv
- Acta Borussica Bd.11/II (PDF-Datei; 1,92 MB)