Ministry of War (Prussia)

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Politics of Prussia
Constitution 1848 1850 1920
Leadership Monarchy House of Hohenzollern King Heirs to the throne Government General Directorate / State Ministry State Chancellor Minister President Deputy Prime Minister Ministry of War Minister of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Interior Affairs Ministry of Finance Ministry of Justice Ministry of Trade, Commerce and Public Works Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests
Legislature Estates National Assembly Landtag House of Lords State Council Presidents House of Representatives
Elections Referendums Prussian three-class franchise Prussian Landtag elections in the Weimar Republic Referendum 1931
Administrative divisions Provinces
Related topics Junker Prussian Army German General Staff 1932 Prussian coup d'état Reichsstatthaltergesetz Abolition
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The Prussian War Ministry was gradually established between 1808 and 1809 as part of a series of reforms initiated by the Military Reorganization Commission created after the disastrous Treaties of Tilsit. The War Ministry was to help bring the Army under constitutional review, and, along with the General Staff systematize the conduct of warfare. Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the most prominent and influential of the reformers, served as acting war minister from roughly 1808 until 1810 (he was also Chief of the General Staff).