Guards grenadier regiment. 1893 married Dorothy Fabian, and had no children after marriage, but they had a good relationship. He showed his talent in employee work very early. 1897 entered the Berlin military academy, and then served alternately in the front line and the staff force. 1899, he was transferred to the general staff as an assistant, when he was only an army lieutenant. 19 13 was appointed as the Chief of Staff of Lieutenant Colonel of the Third Army Corps in Berlin, and he held this position until the outbreak of World War I ... The Third Army Corps was affiliated to the First Army Corps in Alexander Von Kluck and was the most important right-wing offensive in the famous German "Schrieffen Plan". After the Battle of the Marne River, the First Army was forced to retreat. But von Secter fully demonstrated his personal talent and leadership in this battle. 1915 65438+1On October 27th, seeckt was promoted to colonel and transferred to the post of Chief of Staff of the newly established August von Mackensen in East Galicia. In the breakthrough of the Battle of Gorlish-Tarnoff, which started on May 2nd, 19 15, the 11th Army * * * advanced 300 kilometers. By the end of September, the Polish protrusion was completely removed, which completely relieved the Russian threat to Galicia. Mackensen's command played an important role in this victory, and seeckt's ingenious planning contributed a lot. As a result, he was promoted to Major General and won the Blue Max Medal. 19151kloc-0/10 He planned to complete the occupation of Serbia. This achievement enabled von Secter to add oak leaves to his Blue Max medal. Seeckt doubts whether the traditional continental army can carry out mobile warfare according to the strategy of pursuing quick victory, but believes in a small-scale, long-term service, professional and sports army. 19 1 1 year, he launched a formal study on the lessons of war, and the results of this study formed Military Order No.487, in which seeckt personally wrote Leadership and Fighting with Synthetic Weapons. This book became the basis of German military training until the 1930s. Since 1930s, they have been revised into the famous "catch-300", which has been used until 1945. The doctrine of the New German Army is derived from the above lessons. The most striking part of the new theory is about the integration of armored warfare and air power. In order to train the tactics of tanks and planes prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles, he established a secret training center in the Soviet Union in exchange for training assistance to the Red Army. This training center includes three illegal training programs: armor, aircraft and chemical warfare.
The development of armored warfare is a response to the recognized technical failure in the First World War. Compared with the war of attrition, Secter prefers the strategy of annihilation. He emphasized sports, and his training orders began with a slogan-"Fighting is sports". Although seeckt had a forward-looking view in many fields, until his death, he was strangely obsessed with cavalry and was still accused of being narrow-minded. In addition, he never fully agreed that the large-scale armored forces that cooperated with other weapons and air power had strong capabilities. Although seeckt never fully understood the power of mechanized warfare, he was not sure how to accurately carry out tank warfare, and more emphasized the realization of motorized logistics support for cavalry divisions. However, seeckt did not take concrete actions to the changes promoted by guderian and others. On the other hand, the experimental results of guderian and others formed a complex between the large-scale army and Secter's "belittling the large-scale army". They established an army in the army-a small-scale army composed of well-equipped armored troops. The German army further developed the storm force tactics in World War II (that is, Hutil tactics) into the theory of mechanized services and arms. Seeckt has a broader and deeper understanding of the revolutionary nature of air force operations. He transferred 180 officers from the newly formed German Army and advocated the establishment of independent air force arms. Since the Treaty of Versailles prohibited this, he formed the Shadow Air Force. All exercises require the participation of the air force and are widely arbitrated. His air force theory centers on supporting ground forces and takes air superiority as the highest principle. Unlike the United States and Britain, Germany uses bombers to realize the so-called battlefield air interception. To this end, the Germans concentrated on building fighters, then ground attack aircraft, and finally bombers. In a word, the most prominent place of Schechter's army lies in the close integrity of its political leadership and policies, the priority of soldiers, the appropriate staff system and correct theory. The German army in this period was small but almost impeccable, and it was one of the most outstanding military machines in history. To sum up, the later Germans had a distinctive personal style. Observing the history of World War II, it is not difficult to find that the brilliant achievements of the German army, especially the initial achievements, are closely related to seeckt's efforts. However, seeckt's plan also has some shortcomings. This led to some criticisms that these shortcomings were part of the reason for the final defeat of the Germans in World War II. Michael Ji Ye severely criticized the German army's independence from political reality. He believes that this led to the integration of ideology and technology supremacy, which pushed Germany into the Second World War and suffered a devastating blow. He believes that SEK's special envoy Germans focus on the art of fighting and focus on winning the war quickly. The distinction between war practitioners and strategists led to the success of Germany's many battles in World War II and did not have a lasting strategic impact. Ji Ye successfully described that an army tried to exist independently of the political structure, and pursued victory at the operational level too much, which was very dangerous. He made it clear that technological Excellence itself is just an empty shell. The strongest criticism of seeckt's army is that the military vision of the General Staff is too narrow. As a result, in 1934, the chief of staff further reduced the focus of sand table exercise training from the strategic operational level to the tactical level (division and army), which led to the neglect of logistics and intelligence subjects. As Albert Sidon wrote, "The actions of the Army General Staff rarely exceed the level of big tactics. Many of its members are content to fight in a vacuum and regard the 200-mile radius as a strategic issue."
The most convincing criticism is pointed out by a German scholar: "Germany's sense of superiority in ambition and leadership has an unshirkable responsibility for their continuous and short-sighted evaluation of potential opponents." In addition, some accusations include: the efforts to rearm are economically fragile and largely ignore the weaknesses of the German economy; The German Air Force is very successful in tactics, but it is not fully competent for strategic actions at all levels. Of course, on the whole, the army formed by seeckt has done a good job. 1940 The seven-week attack wiped out the French army; Subsequently, the German army further indulged in the tactical and operational victories in North Africa, the Balkans, and especially in Russia. At the end of World War II, despite the overwhelming material superiority of the Allies, the leadership and doctrine of the German army successfully delayed the destruction of Hitler's country. It should be said that Secter achieved the greatest career in his life and will go down in history as the "father of the German army in World War II". 1926 In the early autumn, his enthusiasm for monarchy ruined his position. He allowed a member of hohenzollern's royal family to wear a military uniform to attend the annual military exercise, which was specifically prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles, and also collided with Germany and high spirits at that time. Sickert was forced to resign on October 8th, 65438/KLOC-0. 1930, he ran for parliament. During his tenure in Weimar National Assembly, Von Secter kept close contact with Hitler's Nazi Party. 1934 was sent to China to help build a modern China army and served as the head of Chiang Kai-shek's German military advisory group. His suggestion is of great value to the fifth encirclement and suppression of Jiangxi Red Army launched by Kuomintang and the epic Long March of the Red Army. As the principal of the chairman, he handled military and political affairs on behalf of Chiang Kai-shek himself. In addition, he established several German-equipped divisions for Kuomintang training, which also played an important role in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War and were the core forces in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. /kloc-0 returned to Germany in March, 935. 1936 65438+February 29th, died of heart disease in Berlin.