The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
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Gen. Karl: won. Einem- Rothmaler Is
the first man,in the history of the Ger
man army to reach, the war ministry.
portfolio at fifty years of age. All his
predecessors have been veteran SOL
diers and the vast Teutonic army war
machine has been run on gray-haired
lines. During the last few years the
kaiser has shown. a decided tendency
tic rejuvenate every important admin
-,istrative department Of his government
by putting in comparatively young
n1en-men of his approximate age
as heads. Thus he called the forty
five-year-old Baron Won Rheinbaben to
be minister OF finance in the Prussian
cabinet; theneGen. Budde, forty three
years old, to be minister of railways
and public works, and now .fifty-year-
: old Lieut.. Gen. Won Einem to be min
lister for war Germany,s military Or
ganization has for many years left lit
tie to be desired from, the standpoint of
efficiency. Yet the prediction is made
that the young blood" which the
kaiser has now called into the lexecu-
tive service of the army will soon
manifest itself in the form of improve.
mentS and bettermentS all along the
line. Traditions are to give way to
2nodern ideas wherever opportunity
+. frs RS - r;uo,,, noca,uoa ofec;s, nov
mission to add won Rothmaler" to his
surname in honor of his fathereh1 law,
Gen. Won Rothmaler, a well known
infantry commander, who died in 1880.
The new war minister's career has
been distinguished by a series of un-
paralleled rapid promotions from one
position to another.
/ He made uncommon progress in the
cadet academies of both Bernsburg and
Berlin-such notable progress in fact
) that, though not qualified by age to
be an officer when the war with France
broke out in 1870, he >was taken and
Hanoverian Uhlans. In his first cam
paign, his 5gaIIantry gained him the
Iron Cross, and since then he has gone
steadily upt the ladder. He married
at twentyFive-much earlier in life
than a German officer generally enters
the married state.
Gen. Won Einem attracted Emperor
Williams host earnest attention dur
ing last years stormy reichStag session.
when as the spokesman of the then war
. minister, Gen. Yon GOSsler, he was call
ed up to deEendthe government against
constant and yitriolic attacks upon the
part of the Social Democrats. These
ifdplacable politicians are preparing to
renew them attacks in the coming
re1cnStag W1tn. even greater bitterness.
The governments desire to increase the
army and the military budget will be
fought tooth and nail by the reds"
while the scandalous bruta1ities to pri-
vate soldiers which have come to light
during the past three months will give
them still more4effective ammunition
when they begin to storm the govern
ment citadel. The kaiser sees the hand
writing on the wall, and when Gen
Won Gossler rendered his resignation
few weeks ago, Won; Einem, the sturdy
debater became the inevitable choice
for his successor. The new war min
lister, while known in the army as a
strict disciplinarian,- bears the reputa-
ton of being a most kindly, humane
officer and gentleman. with special re-
gard to the welfare of the enlisted men,
Many Germans look to him with hope
and the most likely man in the army to
bring about that community Of spirit
between officer and man, that mutual
respect which is founded upon some
thing else than contempt or fear. which
is the one thing lacking to make the
kaiser's. powerful legions the gideaI sol
der organization Of the world