A rival for power with Adolf Hitler, Schleicher was assassinated by Hitler's Schutzstaffel during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. Schleicher was born into a military family in Brandenburg an der Havel.

Kurt von Schleicher (born April 7, 1882, Brandenburg, Ger.—died June 30, 1934, Berlin) was a German army officer and the last chancellor of the Weimar Republic, an opponent of Adolf Hitler in 1932–33.

Kurt von Schleicher, the son of a Prussian army officer, was born in Brandenburg, Germany, on 4th July, 1882. He joined the German Army in 1900 and during the First World War was a general on the staff …

Kurt von Schleicher (1882-1934) was the last man to be German Chancellor during the Weimar Republic, the era before the rise to the Chancellorship of Adolf Hitler. As one of Germany’s most …

After secret talks between Hindenburg, Papen, and Hitler to have Hitler appointed chancellor, Schleicher stepped down at the end of January 1933, recommending Hitler as the new chancellor.

A leading Reichswehr (army) figure after World War I, Schleicher wielded great power in the years before Adolf Hitler came to power (1933). He was war minister in the cabinet of Franz von Papen, …

Schleicher attempted to "tame" Hitler into cooperating with his government by threatening him with an anti-Nazi alliance of parties, the so-called Querfront ("cross-front"). Hitler refused to abandon his …