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Key facts
- Chancellor
- Wilhelm Marx , Hermann Müller , Heinrich Brüning
- Preceded by
- Otto Gessler
- Succeeded by
- Kurt von Schleicher
- Born
- Karl Eduard Wilhelm Groener , ( 1867-11-22 ) 22 November 1867, Ludwigsburg , Neckar District , Württemberg
- Died
- 3 May 1939 (1939-05-03) (aged 71), Potsdam-Bornstedt , Brandenburg , Nazi Germany
- Party
- Independent
- Allegiance
- German Empire
- Branch service
- German Army Württemberg Army
- Years of service
- 1884–1919
- Rank
- Generalleutnant
- Battles wars
- World War I
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Wilhelm
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Ludwigsburg
- Place of death
- Potsdam
- Occupation
- military officer
- Political party
- independent politician
- Languages spoken
- German
- Field of work
- military affairs
- Conflict
- World War I
- Military branch
- Imperial German Army
- Military rank
- general
- Image
- Bundesarchiv Bild 102-01049, Wilhelm Groener.jpg
- Work location
- Berlin
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- Commons category
- Wilhelm Groener
- date of birth
- 1867-11-22
- date of death
- 1939-05-03
- place of burial
- Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf
- archives at
- German Federal Archives
- name in native language
- Wilhelm Groener
- birth name
- Karl Eduard Wilhelm Groener
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Encyclopedic overview
Karl Eduard Wilhelm Groener ( German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈɡʁøːnɐ] ; 22 November 1867 – 3 May 1939) 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.
After a confrontation with Erich Ludendorff the Quartermaster general (Erster Generalquartiermeister) of the German Army, Groener was reassigned to a field command. When Ludendorff was dismissed in October 1918, Groener succeeded him. Groener worked with the new Social Democratic president Friedrich Ebert to foil a left-wing take-over during the German Revolution of 1918–19. Under his command, the army bloodily suppressed popular uprisings throughout Germany.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wilhelm Groener” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.