German General Staff
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The German General Staff, originally the Prussian General Staff and officially the Great General Staff, was a full-time body at the head of the Prussian Army and later, the German Army, responsible fo
Great General Staff building on the Königsplatz, Berlin in 1900
General Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Chief of the General Staff from 1857 to 1888
Wilhelm II with his generals
The German General Staff in Kassel, November 1918
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
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Graf Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall. The chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years, he is regarded as the creator of a new, more modern method of direc
German General Staff
…the Franco-Prussian War. In 1914, there were 625 General Staff-qualified officers for armies which had almost doubled in size since 1871. In 1857, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, a widely travelled officer who was a confidante of King William I, was appointed Chief of the General Staff. Under his control, the existing staff…
Graf von Moltke, c. 1870s
Moltke (left) advising Ottoman commander Hafiz Pasha at Nezib
Statue of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, near the Berlin Victory Column in the Tiergarten, Berlin, by Joseph Uphues
Sketch of Helmuth von Moltke