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Kurt von Schleicher. (© Bundesarchiv, Bild 136-B0228 / Foto: Tellgmann) 1882-1934. German officer, last rank: General of the Infantry. Chancellor from 1932 to 1933.
Apr 12, 2024 · The von Schleicher cabinet, headed by Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher, was the 20th government of the Weimar Republic. Schleicher assumed office on 3 December 1932 after he had pressured his predecessor, Franz von Papen, to resign.
Kurt von Schleicher, 1882–1934, German general. A leading Reichswehr (army) figure after World War I, Schleicher wielded great power in the years before Adolf Hitler came to power (1933). He was war minister in the cabinet of Franz von Papen, whom he succeeded as chancellor of Germany in Dec., 1932.
Kurt Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann von Schleicher was a German general and the penultimate chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic. A rival for power with Adolf Hitler, Schleicher was murdered by Hitler's SS during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934.
Kurt Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann von Schleicher (7 April 1882 ; Brandenburg an der Havel - 30 June 1934 ; Babelsburg) was chancellor of Germany in the last days of the Weimar Republic, before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor and Führer ( dictator ). He was also earlier known for being a general during World War I, [1] under Paul von Hindenburg ...
Kurt von Schleicher remains a controversial, puzzling figure. Histo-rians have scarcely improved on the conflicting contemporary characterizations of the man who rose in fourteen years from an army staff officer to chancellor of Germany's first republic. Some have echoed Schleicher' s left-wing detractors, charging him with
Schleicher was born into an aristocratic family in Brandenburg in 1882. His father Hermann von Schleicher was a Prussian officer. Like his father, he started his military career in the Prussian army. Following his mentor Wilhelm Groener, he was appointed to the Kriegsamt (German War Office). In 1917, he was sent to the Galician Front.
