Wilhelm Groener
In 1922 he took a job as a battalion commander in the Munich area. In 1924, he was transferred to the staff of Military District III in Berlin. After a brief stay in the Group Command I in 1929, he was appointed on 1 October 1929 as Major General chief of General Staff of the Weimar Republic, the successor organization of the General Staff that was prohibited by the Allies in the Treaty of Versailles. His predecessor was General Werner von Blomberg, who came into conflict with the government over the possibility of a two-front war with France and Poland, which he deemed as favorable. By contrast, Reichswehrminister Wilhelm Groener and Chancellor Heinrich Brüning preferred Hammerstein's aversion to political extremism and military risks.