serviceyears branch death_date allegiance nationality birth_date term_end death_place imagesize term_start rank image name caption predecessor birth_place party office chancellor successor article_title birth_name
1884-1919 kaiserstandarte.svg german army 3 may 1939 german empire german 22 november 1867 7 30 may 1932 july 1919 12 august 1923 13 may 1932 potsdam-bornstedt , brandenburg , nazi germany 200px 3 9 october 1931 july 1919 25 june 1920 20 january 1928 generalleutnant bundesarchiv bild 102-01049 , wilhelm groener.jpg wilhelm groener as defence minister in 1928 paul von hindenburg gustav bauer otto gessler joseph wirth ludwigsburg , neckar district , württemberg independent chief minister of transport weimar republic '' reich '' minister of of defence weimar republic '' reich '' minister of the interior the weimar republic german general staff '' reich '' konstantin müller heinrich brüning heinrich brüning fehrenbach joseph wirth wilhelm cuno wilhelm marx hermann hans von gayl von seeckt rudolf oeser kurt von schleicher wilhelm wilhelm groener
 karl eduard wilhelm groener
wilhelm groener

karl eduard wilhelm groener -lrb- 22 november 1867 -- 3 may 1939 -rrb- was a german soldier and politician .
his organisational and logistical abilities resulted in a successful military career before and during world war i .
after a confrontation with the quartermaster general of the german army and de facto dictator of germany , erich ludendorff , groener was reassigned to a field command .
however , on ludendorff 's dismissal in october 1918 , groener succeeded him as `` erster generalquartiermeister '' .
groener then worked with the new social democratic president friedrich ebert to prevent chaos and a left-wing take-over during the german revolution of 1918 -- 19 .
under his command the military bloodily suppressed leftist uprisings throughout germany .
yet he also tried to integrate the military , which was dominated by an aristocratic and monarchistic officer corps , into the new republic .
after resigning from the army in the summer of 1919 , groener served in several governments of the weimar republic as minister of transportation , interior and defence .
he was pushed out of the government in 1932 by kurt von schleicher , who was working on a pact with the nazis .
groener was an obstacle to the pact .
