24 Facts About Wilhelm Groener

Wilhelm Groener tried to integrate the military, which was dominated by an aristocratic and monarchistic officer corps, into the new republic.

Wilhelm Groener was pushed out of the government in 1932 by Kurt von Schleicher, who was working on a pact with the Nazis.

Wilhelm Groener was born in Ludwigsburg in the Kingdom of Wurttemberg as the son of Karl Eduard Groener, regimental paymaster, and his wife Auguste on 22 November 1867.

In 1899, Wilhelm Groener married Helene Geyer in Schwabisch Gmund.

In 1912, as a lieutenant-colonel, Wilhelm Groener became head of the railway section at the General Staff.

Wilhelm Groener negotiated with the civilian bureaucracy, unions and representatives of the employers.

Wilhelm Groener served for six months at the western front first as the commander of the 33rd Division, and then of the XXV Reserve Corps, where he was able to observe trench warfare and the mood of the troops.

Wilhelm Groener started to prepare the withdrawal and demobilisation of the army.

Wilhelm Groener's goal was to preserve the monarchy, but under a different ruler.

Wilhelm Groener was in favour of accepting the armistice conditions put to the German government, despite their severe nature.

Ebert agreed to suppress the Bolshevik revolutionaries and to maintain the traditional role of the armed forces as a pillar of the German state; Wilhelm Groener promised that the army would support the new government.

Wilhelm Groener oversaw the retreat and demobilisation of the defeated German army after the signing of the armistice on 11 November 1918.

Wilhelm Groener organised the defence of the eastern borders of the until a peace treaty could be signed.

Wilhelm Groener planned for and expected the German peacetime army to be built up to 300,000 in the coming years, a plan that would be ruined by the Treaty of Versailles.

Wilhelm Groener supported signing as he was worried that the unity of the would be in danger if fighting was resumed, contradicting the officer corps and the views of Walther Reinhardt, the Prussian Minister of War.

Wilhelm Groener, who expected to be made a scapegoat, began cooperating in this process to save Hindenburg's reputation, something Ebert immediately noticed.

OHL was dissolved as a condition of the treaty, and Wilhelm Groener temporarily took over command at Kolberg.

Wilhelm Groener started to organise the establishment of the new peacetime, arguing in favour of a high share of former general staff officers among the new leadership, including in the.

Wilhelm Groener supported a senior position for Hans von Seeckt.

In 1923, when the Cuno government resigned, Wilhelm Groener left politics and wrote military and political treatises, such as.

In 1930, Wilhelm Groener married Ruth Naeher-Gluck was born on 1894 and in Berlin and had a son.

Wilhelm Groener moved to Potsdam-Bornstedt in 1934, where he wrote his memoirs,.

Wilhelm Groener died of natural causes in Bornstedt on 3 May 1939.

Wilhelm Groener is buried in the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery, between Potsdam and Berlin.