Guderian's leadership was supported, fostered and institutionalized by his supporters in the Reichswehr General Staff system, which worked the Army to greater and greater levels of capability through massive and systematic Movement Warfare war games in the 1930s.

The latter quote was shortened to im Felde unbesiegt as a semi-official slogan of the Reichswehr.

Krupp ’ s factory in Essen was occupied, and independent republics were declared, but the German Reichswehr invaded from Westphalia and quickly restored order.

Having headed the Reichswehr air staff for eight years in the 1920s, Wilberg had considerable experience and was ideal for a senior staff position.

The Einwohnerwehr was under the command of the local Reichswehr regiments and which supplied its guns.

Pacelli informed Gasparri that " the capital of Bavaria, is suffering under a harsh Jewish-Russian revolutionary tyranny " – but the crisis was soon over, and the Munich Soviet Republic crushed by Freikorps and Reichswehr troops.

* October 27 – In Germany, General Hans von Seeckt orders the Reichswehr to dissolve the Social Democratic-Communist government of Saxony, which was refusing to accept the authority of the Reich government.

For centuries Bayreuth was also a garrison town for the Prussian Army, Royal Bavarian Army, Reichswehr, Wehrmacht, US Army, German Army ( Bundeswehr ) and the German Border Police ( Bundesgrenzschutz ).

The approval of the " pocket battleship " programme by the government in November 1928 was largely due to pressure from the Reichswehr, which formed a " state within the state ", and was a major blow to German democracy in that the military successfully pressured the government into approving something that it had been elected in order to stop ; in effect the military claimed the right on matters of national defence to overrule the elected politicians.

The SA also posed a threat to the Nazi leadership and to Hitler's goal of co-opting the Reichswehr to his ends, as Röhm's ideal was to fold the " antiquated " German army into a new " people's army ", the SA.

He followed up on Göring's speech and stated that the action was not directed at the police and Reichswehr, but against "... the Berlin Jew government and the November criminals of 1918 ".

He immediately called all his green police units and had them seize the central telegraph office and the telephone exchange, although his most important act was to notify Major General Jakob Ritter von Danner, the Reichswehr city commandant of Munich.

In 1929 Walter Kreiser, one of the writers for Die Weltbühne, published an expose of the training of a special air unit of the Reichswehr, referred to as Abteilung M (" M Battalion "), which was secretly training in Germany and in Soviet Russia, in violation of Germany's agreements under the Treaty of Versailles.

Röhm's resignation from the Reichswehr was accepted in November 1923 during his time as a prisoner at Stadelheim prison.

" In February 1934, Röhm demanded that the Reichswehr ( which under the Treaty of Versailles was limited to 100, 000 men ) be absorbed into the SA under his leadership as Minister of Defence.

In early 1919 the strength of the Reichswehr, the regular army, was estimated at 350, 000.

Rundstedt, like most German officers, had favoured the policy of good relations with the Soviets followed by the Reichswehr commander General Hans von Seekt during the Weimar Republic years, when the Soviet connection was seen as a counter to the threat from Poland.

Although the T-28 was rightly considered ineffective by 1941, it is worth remembering that when the Red Army was fielding the first T-28s in 1933, the French Army was still largely equipped with the FT-17, and the Reichswehr had no tanks at all.

The Reichswehr ( English: Reich Defence ), formed the military organization of Germany from 1919 until 1935, when it was renamed the Wehrmacht (" Defence Force ").

This lasted until 1 January 1921, when the Reichswehr was officially established according to the limitations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles ( Articles 159 to 213 ).

The Reichswehr was a unified organization composed of the following:

During and after the First World War, these concepts were further developed by generals, such as Oskar von Hutier and the Reichswehr.

Following the First World War, these concepts were modified by the Reichswehr.

Technical advances in foreign countries were, however, observed and used in part by the Weapons Office of the Reichswehr.

* September 30 – Outside Berlin, Major Ernst von Buchrucker, the leader of the Black Reichswehr attempts a putsch by seizing several forts.

In Munich, Hitler took part in " national thinking " courses organized by the Education and Propaganda Department of the Bavarian Reichswehr under Captain Karl Mayr.

The killings perpetrated by the Black Reichswehr were justified under the so-called Femegerichte ( secret court ) system.

These killings were ordered by the officers from Sondergruppe R. Regarding the Femegerichte murders, Ossietzky wrote: " Lieutenant Schulz ( charged with the murder of informers against the Black Reichswehr ) did nothing but carry out the orders given him, and that certainly Colonel von Bock, and probably Colonel von Schleicher and General Seeckt, should be sitting in the dock beside him ".

Rundstedt rose steadily in the small 100, 000-man army ( the Reichswehr ) allowed to Germany by the Versailles Treaty.

would be called on for help by the Reichswehr.

Despite the manpower and technical limitations imposed upon the German Army by the Treaty of Versailles, several Reichswehr officers established a clandestine General Staff to study World War I and develop future strategies and tactics.

After World War I, the Jäger units of the Imperial German Army were disbanded, but their traditions were carried by infantry regiments of the 100, 000-man Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic.

These failures led Germany to look for other alternatives, which reached their most extreme form in the proposal of Hans von Seeckt, commander of the Reichswehr ( German military ), who suggested that Germany and the Soviet Union should conclude an alliance to jointly invade Poland, followed by a war on France.

In the spring of 1921, Seeckt created a secret group within the Reichswehr known as Sondergruppe R whose task was to work with the Red Army in their common struggle against the international system established by the Treaty of Versailles.

The killings perpetrated by the " Black Reichswehr were justifed under the so-called Femegerichte ( secret court ) system in which alleged traitors were killed after being " convicted " in secret " trials " that the victim was unaware of.

In a secret letter sent to the President of the German Supreme Court, which was trying a member of the Black Reichswehr for murder, Seeckt admitted that the Black Reichswehr was controlled by the Reichswehr, and claimed that the murders were justified by the struggle against Versailles, so the court should acquit the defendant.

Buchrucker's Black Reichswehr took its orders from a secret group in the German Army known as Sondergruppe R comprising Kurt von Schleicher, Eugen Ott, Fedor von Bock and Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord.

Buchrucker's Black Reichswehr became infamous for its practice of murdering Germans suspected of working as informers for the Allied Control Commission.

Furthermore, Röhm and his SA colleagues thought of their force ( now over three million strong ) as the future army of Germany, replacing the Reichswehr and its professional officers.

After the Nazi takeover of power, Ernst Röhm and his SA colleagues thought of their force ( now over three million strong ) as the future army of Germany, replacing the Reichswehr and its professional officers, whom they viewed as " old fogies " who lacked " revolutionary spirit ".

Buchrucker ′ s so-called " Black Reichswehr " became infamous for its practice of murdering all those Germans whom it was suspected were working as informers for the Allied Control Commission, which was responsible for ensuring that Germany was in compliance with Part V of the Treaty of Versailles.

Buchrucker ′ s so-called " Black Reichswehr " became infamous for its practice of murdering all those Germans who were suspected of working as informers for the Allied Control Commission, which was responsible for ensuring that Germany was in compliance with Part V. The killings perpetrated by the " Black Reichswehr were justifed under the so-called Femegerichte ( secret court ) system.

Supported by the Marine Brigade Erhardt ( the first paramilitary group to use the swastika as its emblem ), by the irregular " Baltic " troops ( the German troops who had occasioned trouble in Courland in the previous year by fighting independently of any government ), who were now stationed at Döberitz, by the former guard cavalry division, and by the Reichswehr troops whom General von Lüttwitz had led, Kapp advanced upon Berlin in the early hours of March 13.

Buchrucker's so-called " Black Reichswehr " became infamous for its practice of murdering all those Germans whom it was suspected were working as informers for the Allied Control Commission, which was responsible for ensuring that Germany was in compliance with Part V. The killings perpetrated by the " Black Reichswehr were justifed by the revival of the Femegerichte ( secret court ) system.

He studied for his commission over the next several years, and won a rare promotion to lieutenant in 1928 ( the Reichswehr at the time having only 4, 000 officers in its entirety ).

It was based on the old Reichswehr 15th Infantry Regiment and drew its initial recruits from Thuringia.

His thesis was that under von Seeckt's leadership during the Weimar period, the Reichswehr formed a " State within the State " that largely preserved its autonomy from the politicians in Berlin, but that it did not, however, play an active role in day-to-day politics.

The Ministry of the Reichswehr was established in October 1919, and had its seat in the Bendlerblock building.