Officer corps
The officer corps , in the military without Fugen-s officer corps , refers to the entirety of the officers of the armed forces , generally of the armed forces (gendarmerie, border police, protection police), but mostly a part of a country's armed forces . The entirety of the officers of a unit of troops, such as a regiment or battalion , but also a branch of arms, can be addressed as a corps . There is no formal organization like that of corps . The term follows the general idea of the corps and underlines the special position of the officers in relation to other groups within the elites of state and society as carriers of common political principles and personal ideas about life. This manifests itself in the corps spirit as a result of uniform training and common tasks.
Emergence
When the career officer emerged in the 19th century, officers generally received higher, mostly academic, training, while non-military academic training was only available to children of wealthy citizens. Thus the officers within a state formed a relatively small group of people, which consisted of more highly educated and often wealthy people who saw themselves solely responsible to the state. In states that are already in crisis, this idea of the elite has often led to military coups that are carried out from within the officer corps.
Germany
In Germany, the officer corps remained as a special elite until the end of the Second World War . In the Weimar Republic , the main contributing factor was that the Reichswehr, according to the constitution , was directly subordinate to the Reich President and formed a state within a state with its own jurisdiction . During the Second World War , part of the traditional German officer corps repeatedly clashed with the National Socialist worldview, since the officer corps still contained certain humanitarian, political and military ideas that opposed the Nazi ideology. With the establishment of the Bundeswehr , the concept of corps with regard to officers and NCOs was revived.
"Only one ethical construction on a grand scale succeeded in the 19th century: the Prussian officer corps."
See also
literature
- Karl Demeter : The German Officer Corps in Society and State 1650–1945 . 4th, revised and expanded edition, Bernard & Graefe, Frankfurt am Main 1965.
- Rudolf Jaun : Prussia before your eyes. The Swiss officer corps in the military and social change of the fin de siècle . Chronos, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-905313-11-1 .
- Hans Meier-Welcker (Ed.): Investigations into the history of the officer corps. Anciency and promotion according to performance (= contributions to military and war history . Volume 4). DVA, Stuttgart 1962.
Web links
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Document The German officer corps from the founding of the Reich to the end of the First World War from the Ruhr University Bochum .
Attention! Some references are unusable for library research because the word officer corps has been replaced by officer corps .
Individual evidence
- ^ Officer Corps, das. In: Duden , accessed on November 22, 2012.
- ↑ Officer who. In: Duden , accessed on November 22, 2012.
- ^ NG Dávila: Solitude - glosses and text in one . Vienna 1987, p. 140