  | 1913 on the General Staff; 1914 Member of the High Command of the Army
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  | 1918-1920 Political Analyst in the Reichs Ministry of Defense
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  | 1929, State Secretary
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  | 1930 participated in the overthrow of the government under Reichs Chancellor Hermann Müller
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  | 1931 Lieutenant General
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  | 1932 participated in the fall of the Brüning government
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  | June 1932 Reichs Defense Minister in the cabinet of Franz v. Papen
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  | December 1932 to January 1933, Reichs Chancellor
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  | becomes a victim of the so-called Röhm-Putsch in 1934 |