Chief of the General Staff
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If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use!
As Germany's Chief of the General Staff from August 1916, Hindenburg's reputation rose greatly in German public esteem.
Deletant, pp.39, 45, 290 After a period as Deputy Chief of the General Staff, he was appointed its Chief (1933–1934).
The plan, was put in place on 1 December 2010, and mirrors a proposed reorganisation by former Chief of the General Staff Army General Yuri Baluyevsky for a Regional Command East which was not in fact implemented.
His rapid rise continued; in 1997 Mofaz was appointed Deputy Chief of the General Staff and in 1998 he was appointed Chief of the General Staff.
P.Ya. Mezhiritzky (2002), Reading Marshal Zhukov, Philadelphia: Libas Consulting, chapter 32. On 29 July 1941 Zhukov was removed from his post of Chief of the General Staff.