Horse nail release
The Hufnagelerlass is a memorandum from the head of the Army Command at that time, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt , dated December 5, 1925 about the increasing bureaucratization of business within the Army Command.
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In the memorandum, von Seeckt ironically exaggerated the bureaucratic effort involved in introducing a new horseshoe nail in the Reichswehr. Finally, he called on the commanders responsible to help reduce the bureaucracy.
“The business of the Army Command is starting to get too slow and time-consuming for me. I am certainly not blaming this delay on a lack of diligence, but on the contrary on an excess of bureaucratic mores. Above all, I fear a departmental volatility that does not allow the new form of a horseshoe to be proposed to me until T1, 2, 3, 4, VA, JWG, In 1 - 7, the Legal Department and the Peace Commission have given their written vote and differences of opinion are balanced by a meeting of the speakers. But I fear even more that all parts of the troops have been questioned individually about this hoof nail, both by the departments and the inspections. If the Hufnagel is then presented to me for a decision with mutual consent from the only authoritative veterinary inspection, then either 100 horses have become unnecessarily lame, or the old, proven Hufnagel and the ministry and troops have worked in vain.
I ask all branches of the Army Command to take this horseshoe nail as a symbol and to help me avoid bureaucratic clumsiness that is incompatible with the soldier's class. "