Infantry school of the Reichswehr

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The Infantry School of the Reichswehr in Munich , later Dresden , was the weapons school for the officer candidates of the infantry , motor vehicle and engineer troops of the Reichswehr .

General

Due to the Versailles Treaty , only the training of troop officers was permitted in Germany, but no longer general staff training . Therefore, the weapons schools were the highest training institutions of the Reichswehr . Since the regimental commanders were responsible for selecting and hiring the candidates , the existing structure of an officer corps , which the Weimar Republic basically rejected , could be “maintained” .

Building of the Infantry School of the Reichswehr in Munich, February 1924

The infantry school was opened on May 27, 1920 in the building of the former war school of the Bavarian Army at Blutenburgstrasse 3 and was subordinate to the inspector of education in the Reichswehr Ministry , who was directly assigned to the head of the army command .

Well-known teachers at the infantry school

The later Field Marshal Rommel was one of the most famous teachers at the infantry school . In September 1929 he became a teacher at the infantry school in Dresden, where he worked for four years. During this time Rommel began to record his earlier war experiences as a book under the title - " Infantry Attacks " -. This was published in 1937.

Participation in the Hitler putsch

Most of the approximately 350 officers , officer cadets and men were more or less active in Ludendorff and Hitler's German Combat League . As early as mid-October 1923, the head of the army command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt , recommended that the school be temporarily closed, but was unable to assert himself against the concerns of Reich Chancellor Gustav Stresemann .

On November 8, 1923, the putschists succeeded in arresting the school commander, and 20 officers and 80 candidate officers took part in the Hitler putsch as the so-called Ludendorff storm column . The behavior of the school later had consequences. The commander and various officers had to say goodbye, other officers were disciplined. Two of the weapons students were tried for high treason.

After the putsch ended, the infantry school was temporarily relocated to the Ohrdruf military training area. In 1924 the Hitler-Ludendorff trial was carried out in a wing of the school building . In 1926 it was finally relocated to Dresden's Albertstadt , today the Army Officer School . The pioneer school remaining in Munich was relocated to Berlin-Karlshorst on October 1, 1936 .

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Otto von Lossow May 16, 1920 to December 31, 1922
Major general Friedrich Lindemann January 1 to April 30, 1923
Major general Hans Tieschowitz from Tieschowa May 1, 1923 to March 31, 1924
Major general Joachim von Amsberg April 1, 1924 to January 31, 1927
Lieutenant General Alexander von Falkenhausen February 1, 1927 to January 31, 1930
Colonel / Major General / Lieutenant General Wilhelm List February 1, 1930 to September 30, 1933
Colonel / Major General Walter Schroth October 1, 1933 to December 31, 1934
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Hans-Valentin Hube January 1, 1935 to October 18, 1939

literature

  • Military history research office by Friedrich Forstmeier (Hrsg.): German military history in six volumes. 1648-1939. Volume 3. Section VI: Reichswehr and Republic 1918–1933. Pawlak, Herrsching 1983, ISBN 3-88199-112-3 .
  • Harold J. Gordon : Hitler putsch 1923. Power struggle in Bavaria 1923–1924. Bernard and Graefe, Frankfurt am Main 1971, ISBN 3-7637-5108-4 .
  • Bruno Thoß: The Ludendorff Circle 1919–1923. Munich as the center of the Central European counter-revolution between the revolution and the Hitler putsch (= Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia 78 = New series of the Munich City Archives 98). Stadtarchiv, München 1978, ISBN 3-87913-087-6 (also: München, Univ., Diss., 1978).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General David Fraser - Rommel - Die Biographie / Siedler Verlag 2001 - ISBN 3-57201282-1 - (page 102)
  2. ^ Kai Uwe Tapken : The Reichswehr in Bavaria from 1919 to 1924. Verlag Dr. Kovač . Hamburg 2002. ISBN 3-8300-0646-2 . P. 399.
  3. ↑ Dermot Bradley (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815-1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 775.

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 49 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 58.3 ″  E