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unusual facts about Reichswehr



Albatros L 65

The second prototype underwent evaluation by the Reichswehr to equip the clandestine training school at Lipetsk, but the Heinkel HE 17 was selected instead and no further aircraft were produced.

Black Reichswehr

The Reichswehr military organization, as it was reorganized under General Hans von Seeckt and Defence Minister Otto Gessler, evaded these prohibitions through a variety of measures.

Though constantly denied by the Reichswehr supreme command and the Ministry of Defence, Black Reichswehr forces served in sabotage acts and assaults during the French Occupation of the Ruhr and were responsible for several feme murders.

Bruno Gesche

Gesche's aspirations for a career in the German military were effectively dashed by the limitations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles on the post-World War I national defense force, the Reichswehr.

Erich Bloedorn

Bloedorn retired from the Reichswehr in 1930 to serve on the General Staff of former Generaloberst Hans von Seeckt, who served as a military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek in Nanking and Shanghai.

Heinkel HD 17

In 1926, it was evaluated by the Reichswehr to equip the secret aviation training school at Lipetsk, and was selected in favour of the competing Albatros L 65.

Heinkel HD 21

Others were flown by the Reichswehr at the clandestine aviation training facility in Lipetsk.

Heinkel HD 37

It had been designed for the clandestine air force that the Reichswehr was training at Lipetsk, but had been rejected by German officials, who purchased the Fokker D.XIII instead.

Heinrich Hannibal

In 1905, he joined the Reichswehr and was stationed until 1907 in the Unteroffiziers school in Neubreisach, subsequently from 1907 to 1909 he was at the corporal school in Jülich.

Herbert von Bose

While von Bose and von Tschirschky drew up a special dossier that was to be handed over to the old von Hindenburg in late June 1934, to convince him of the necessity of mobilising the Reichswehr against the SA and NSDAP, von Papen delivered his famed address at the University of Marburg on June 17, 1934, which criticized some of the excesses of Nazi rule and called for a cessation of violence and return of the rule of laws.

Junkers K 47

Three aircraft were used by the Reichswehr clandestine training facility at Lipetsk and a small number of the unarmed civil version were purchased by the DVS.

Mackensen-class battlecruiser

At the launching ceremony, dockyard workers named the ship Noske, after Reichswehr Minister Gustav Noske.

Sterneckerbräu

On 12 September 1919, Adolf Hitler attended a meeting of the DAP on behalf of the intelligence command of the army.


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