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Kurt von Schleicher, (born April 7, 1882, Brandenburg, Ger.—died June 30, 1934, Berlin), German army officer, last chancellor of the Weimar Republic, an opponent of Adolf Hitler in 1932–33. Joining the German military in 1900, Schleicher attached himself to the newly created Reichswehr in 1919 and by 1929 was a major general in charge of an ...

Kurt von Schleicher (1882-1934) was a German military officer turned politician. He is best known as the chancellor replaced by Adolf Hitler and as a victim of the Nazis’ ‘Night of the Long Knives’ purge in 1934. Schleicher was born in Brandenburg, east of Berlin, the son of a military officer.

With each local and national election through 1931 and 1932, constituents of the government shrank. Under Chancellors Franz von Papen (June 1932-October 1932) and General Kurt von Schleicher (October 1932-January 1933), barely 10 per cent of voters supported the government.

Kurt Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann von Schleicher (7 April 1882 ; Brandenburg an der Havel - 30 June 1934 ; Babelsburg) was chancellor of Germany in the last days of the Weimar Republic, before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor and Führer ( dictator ). He was also earlier known for being a general during World War I, [1] under Paul von Hindenburg ...

Kurt Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann von Schleicher war ein deutscher General und Politiker. Von Anfang Dezember 1932 bis Ende Januar 1933 amtierte er als letzter Reichskanzler der Weimarer Republik. Nachdem er im Kaiserreich der preußischen Armee angehört hatte, erreichte Schleicher in der Weimarer Republik eine Schlüsselstellung im ...

Kurt von Schleicher (1882-1934) was the last man to be German Chancellor during the Weimar Republic, the era before the rise to the Chancellorship of Adolf Hitler. As one of Germany’s most prominent generals in the years after World War I, he exercised considerable power.

Kurt von Schleicher, the son of a Prussian army officer, was born in Brandenburg, Germany, on July 4, 1882. He joined the German Army in 1900 and during the First World War was a general on the staff of Paul von Hindenburg. After the war Schleicher helped organize the Freikorps.

Kurt von Schleicher Such a possibility had been envisaged at the time of Brüning’s appointment to the chancellorship by a small group of men around Hindenburg, prominent among whom was Gen. Kurt von Schleicher .