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Wilhelm Groener
Karl Eduard Wilhelm Groener was a Württemberg–German general and politician, who served as the final Chief of the Great General Staff and Reich Minister of Transport, Defence and the Interior.
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politics · German general and politician (1867–1939) · politician · military officer · minister · also Wilhelm Groener, Karl Eduard Wilhelm Groener, Groener
Born 22 November 1867 · Died 3 May 1939 · Q57513
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1939· 1 entry
Died 1939-05-03.
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1934· 1 entry
Where he wrote his memoirs, Lebenserinnerungen
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1932· 2 entries
Won Goethe Medal for Art and Science (1932).
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By Kurt von Schleicher, who was working on a pact with the Nazis
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1931· 1 entry
Career landmark: Reichsminister des Innern (1931–1932).
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1930· 1 entry
Groener married Ruth Naeher-Glück (born 1894) in Berlin and had a son
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1923· 1 entry
When the Cuno government resigned, Groener left politics and wrote military and political treatises, such as Das Testament des Grafen Schlieffen (1927)
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1912· 1 entry
As a lieutenant-colonel, Groener became head of the railway section at the General Staff
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1910· 1 entry
Became a battalion commander in Infantry Regiment 125 at Stuttgart
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1899· 2 entries
And was attached to the railway section, where he worked for the next 17 years
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Groener married Helene Geyer (1864–1926) in Schwäbisch Gmünd
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1890· 1 entry
Was promoted to Bataillonsadjutant and from 1893 to 1896 attended the War Academy at Berlin, where he finished top of his class
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-11-22.
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