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    Karl Eduard Wilhelm Groener (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈɡʁøːnɐ] ; 22 November 1867 – 3 May 1939) was a German general and politician. His organisational...
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  • Democrat Friedrich Ebert, at the time the Chancellor of Germany, and Wilhelm Groener, Quartermaster General of the German Army, on November 10, 1918. This...
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    Hindenburg from 1926 onward. Following the appointment of his mentor Wilhelm Groener as Minister of Defence in 1928, Schleicher became head of the Defence...
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    proclaimed Germany a republic. Wilhelm accepted this fait accompli only after Ludendorff's replacement, General Wilhelm Groener, had informed him that the...
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    "Biografie Wilhelm Groener" [Biography of Wilhem Groener] (in German). Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Retrieved 26 June 2013. "Biografie Wilhelm Groener (German)"...
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    although he continued to play a role in the process. He insisted on Wilhelm Groener as Reichswehr (armed forces) minister and rejected the appointment...
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    forces, in particular the leadership of the military under General Wilhelm Groener and the right-wing Freikorps. With their help, Ebert's government[clarification...
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    Kaiser Wilhelm II in his memoir: I immediately summoned Field Marshal von Hindenburg and the Quartermaster General, General Groener. General Groener again...
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    proclaimed Germany to be a republic. General Wilhelm Groener, Ludendorff's replacement, then informed Wilhelm that the army definitely would not fight to...
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    of Emperor Wilhelm II, a republic was proclaimed from Berlin. The next day, German Chancellor Friedrich Ebert and General Wilhelm Groener, acting in the...
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    Belgium, despite similar advice by Hindenburg and Ludendorff's successor Wilhelm Groener of the OHL, was willing to consider abdication only as German Emperor...
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    Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (German pronunciation: [ˈeːrɪç ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈluːdn̩ˌdɔʁf]; 9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German general...
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    positions. Ludendorff was so distraught on the phone to OHL that General Wilhelm Groener (who directed the army's railroads and had been a competitor with Ludendorff...
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    General Wilhelm Groener, the new First Quartermaster General, resulted in the unofficial and secret Ebert–Groener pact. In exchange for Groener's assurance...
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    Schlieffen und der Weltkrieg (Count Schlieffen and the World War, 1925), Wilhelm Groener, head of Oberste Heeresleitung (OHL, the wartime German General Staff)...
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    Staff in World War II. Conway. ISBN 978-1844861361. Stoneman, Mark R. Wilhelm Groener, Officering and the Schlieffen Plan. PhD, Georgetown University, 2006...
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    government. In October 1931, he was pushed out of office and replaced by Wilhelm Groener on the personal initiative of Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg,...
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    Centre Party, was provisionally taken over by Reichswehr Minister Wilhelm Groener. The Ministry of Justice went to the former state secretary Curt Joël...
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    Wilhelm Groener (Ind.), Reichswehr Minister...
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    not function on the account of the general strike, Seeckt sent Colonel Wilhelm Heye to meet with General Walther von Lüttwitz, the real leader of the...
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    recognized the Council on 10 November in the secret Ebert-Groener Pact in which Wilhelm Groener, Quartermaster General of the German Army, assured Reich...
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    critical account) Voigt, Martin: "Gustav Adolf Bauer". p. 177–190. In: Wilhelm v. Sternburg (Hrsg.): Die deutschen Kanzler. Von Bismarck bis Schmidt....
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    29 August 1916) Paul von Hindenburg (29 August 1916 – 3 July 1919) Wilhelm Groener (3–7 July 1919) Hans von Seeckt (7–15 July 1919) The Kaiser had full...
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    Ebert and General Wilhelm Groener, Ludendorff's successor as leader of the Supreme Army Command (OHL), concluded the secret Ebert–Groener pact on 10 November...
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    1927, the DDP voted against working with the coalition of the cabinet of Wilhelm Marx. To retain his position as Minister of Defence, Gessler left the party...
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    dismissed from his post by the Emperor and replaced by Lieutenant General Wilhelm Groener. On 3 November 1918, Prince Max, who had been in a coma for 36 hours...
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    armed maneuvers by volunteers in Westphalia. Defence Minister General Wilhelm Groener called Blomberg to Berlin to explain himself. Blomberg expected Schleicher...
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  • August 1911 – 18 August 2005) was a German historian, biographer of Wilhelm Groener and Paula Modersohn-Becker. She also worked at Radio Bremen for 19...
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    or whether the division was an obstacle to Quartermaster General Wilhelm Groener's agreement to use the army to suppress any communist uprising. From...
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    Wilhelm Stoph (9 July 1914 – 13 April 1999) was a German politician. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic...
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