Kurt von Schleicher
German chancellor (1882-1934)
- Fame58.7
- Momentum1.4
- Wikipedia43.3K
GermanyIn their orbit
People connected to Kurt von Schleicher
The general who thought he could pull the strings ended up a bullet point in Hitler's purge. Schleicher spent the Weimar Republic's final years toppling chancellors from the shadows, then held the job himself for fifty-seven days before recommending his rival take over — a miscalculation he paid for with his life.
About
Born into a military family in Brandenburg an der Havel in 1882, Schleicher entered the Prussian Army at eighteen and rose through the General Staff during World War I. He became the Reichswehr's fixer in the new Weimar Republic, working around the Treaty of Versailles restrictions and advising President Hindenburg from 1926 onward. By 1930 he was toppling governments — orchestrating Hermann Müller's fall, installing Heinrich Brüning, then bringing down Franz von Papen to take the chancellorship himself on 3 December 1932. He tried to split the Nazis by courting Gregor Strasser and threatened…
Photos
Platforms
Score breakdown
The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.
Sources
- WikidataHigh confidencewikidata · wikidata.org
- WikipediaHigh confidencewikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
- Pantheon 2.0High confidencedatabase · pantheon.world
You might know
Similar profiles worth watching
_(cropped)(2).jpg?width=1200)
