Prussian General Staff

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The Prussian General Staff was the pioneering 19th-century military planning and command institution of the Kingdom of Prussia that became a model for modern professional general staffs worldwide.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Prussian military organization
general staff
military institution
appliesToJurisdiction German Empire
Kingdom of Prussia NERFINISHED
country Kingdom of Prussia
developed Kriegsspiel wargaming
general staff ride exercises
merit-based staff selection system
peacetime war planning
professional officer education system
railway mobilization planning
dissolutionCause Treaty of Versailles
dissolved 1919
fieldOfWork military education
military planning
operational art
strategy
followedBy German General Staff
hasPart Great General Staff
Kriegsakademie
intelligence section
operations section
railway section
topographical section
headquartersLocation Berlin
inception 1808
influenced Austro-Hungarian General Staff
German General Staff
Imperial Japanese Army General Staff
Ottoman General Staff
Russian Imperial General Staff
United States Army General Staff system
inspiredBy defeat of Prussia in 1806 by Napoleon
keyPerson Alfred von Schlieffen NERFINISHED
Alfred von Waldersee
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau NERFINISHED
Carl von Clausewitz
Gerhard von Scharnhorst NERFINISHED
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder NERFINISHED
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger NERFINISHED
notableFor being a model for modern professional general staffs worldwide
centralized strategic planning in Prussia
integration of education, planning, and command support
notableWork development of modern staff officer system
development of war planning procedures
operational planning for Prussian wars of unification
planning for the Austro-Prussian War
planning for the Franco-Prussian War
partOf Prussian Army
replacedBy Truppenamt
significantEvent Prussian military reforms after 1806
timePeriod 19th century
early 20th century

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Prussian military reforms
implementedBy
German General Staff
predecessor

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