Leader assistant training

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The training of general staff officers was the designation of the German Reichswehr for their training of general staff officers, which was prohibited under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and was therefore camouflaged from 1919 onwards .

history

The Reichswehr was not allowed to set up a general staff or to set up and prepare a comparable institution. Article 160 of the Versailles Treaty stipulated: "The German General Staff and all similar formations will be dissolved and may not be re-established under any form." The War Academy therefore had to be closed in 1919.

The Reichswehr circumvented these bans almost immediately with the help of camouflaged facilities. The role of the general staff was taken over by the troop office in the Reichswehr Ministry , and in the two group commands in Berlin and Kassel and in each of the ten divisions there was a “leader's staff ”. The officers who served there and were appropriately trained were no longer classified as general staff officers or officers in the military. G. , but referred to as "Führer staff officers".

The general staff training previously carried out at the military academy was now camouflaged under the name of "leadership assistant training" and carried out decentrally in the military districts and took place in the existing staffs and partly also at civilian educational institutions.

The End

During the Weimar Republic there were only about 250-300 posts for general staff officers, which proved to be a hindrance with the accelerated expansion of the Wehrmacht from 1933 onwards. With the armament of the Wehrmacht and the start of war preparations, the Wehrmacht reopened the War Academy on October 15, 1935, and the training for assistant leaders was again referred to as general staff training.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Görlitz, p. 244 f.

literature

  • Trevor N. Dupuy : The Genius of War. The German Army and the General Staff 1807–1945. Ares-Verlag, Graz, 2009, ISBN 978-3-902475-51-0 .
  • Othmar Hackl : General Staff, General Staff Service and General Staff training in the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht 1919–1945. Studies of German generals and general staff officers in the Historical Division of the US Army in Europe 1946–1961. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück, 1999, ISBN 3-7648-2551-0 .
  • Walter Görlitz : Small history of the German general staff. 2nd Edition. Haude & Spener, Berlin 1977.
  • Christian EO Millotat: The Prussian-German General Staff System: Roots, Development, Continuation. vdf Hochschulverlag, ETH Zurich, 2000, ISBN 3-7281-2749-3 , pp. 120-131
  • Kurt Weckmann: Guide assistant training . In: Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau , Volume 4, No. 6, ES Mittler & Sohn, Darmstadt, June 1954
  • Hansgeorg Model: The German General Staff Officer: His selection and training in the Reichswehr, Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr. Bernard & Graefe, Frankfurt, 1968