August schleicher biography

Primary Sources

(1) General Edgar Röhricht was interviewed by Basil Liddell Hart about Kurt von Schleicher after the war for his book The Other Side of the Hill (1948)

He was not so much a soldier as an expert in home politics, though not tied to any party.

August schleicher biography wikipedia

He was very sympathetic towards, and popular with, the trade unions, while suspected by the Conservatives on account of his tendency to social reforms. He was anything but a 'Junker'. A very skilful and astute political tactician, but without the personality of a statesman that was needed at this period.

(2) Paul R.

Maracin, The Night of the Long Knives: Forty-Eight Hours that Changed the History of the World (2004)

Former chancellor von Schleicher, who had tried to circumvent Hitler by offering the vice-chancellorship to Gregor Strasser, was sitting in the study of his villa at Neubabelsberg near Potsdam, going over household accounts with his housekeeper, Marie Guntel, while his wife sa