Wilhelm Heye
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Wilhelm Heye was a Prussian and German officer who rose to the rank of Generaloberst and became Chief of the Army Command within the Ministry of the Reichswehr in the Weimar Republic.
Wilhelm Heye in a photograph by Nicola Perscheid
Wilhelm Heye (left), 1929
Gravesite in Braunlage
Reichswehr
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Reichswehr was the official name of the German armed forces during the Weimar Republic and the first two years of Nazi Germany. After Germany was defeated in World War I, the Imperial German Army was
Wilhelm Heye
…chief of staff of the Troop Office (Truppenamt) in the Ministry of the Reichswehr in Berlin. The Truppenamt served as the covert general staff of the Reichswehr; Seeckt, as chief of the Truppenamt, was effectively chief of the general staff of the Reichswehr, and Heye was his principal deputy. In the aftermath…
Structure of the Reichswehr, 1920–1934
Gustav Noske (right) with Walther von Lüttwitz (1920)
General Hans von Seeckt at a Reichswehr exercise in 1925
General Otto von Lossow, commander of Reichswehr troops in Bavaria during Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch