{"id":23805,"date":"2018-11-16T08:58:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T07:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23805"},"modified":"2018-11-16T08:58:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T07:58:24","slug":"who-signed-the-1918-armistice-agreement-for-germany-and-what-happened-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23805","title":{"rendered":"Who signed the 1918 Armistice Agreement for Germany and what happened to him?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have just commemorated the centenary of the ending of the First World War. We all know that, following an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armistice_of_11_November_1918\">Armistice Agreement<\/a> signed in a railway carriage in rural France, hostilities ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.<\/p>\n<p>But, until watching a BBC2 documentary entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/search?q=WWI%3A%20The%20Final%20Hours&amp;sa_f=search-product--suggest&amp;suggid=urn%3Abbc%3Aprogrammes%3Ab0br9xzq\">&#8220;WW1: The Final Hours&#8221;<\/a>, I had not realised that the agreement was signed on behalf of Germany not by a military figure &#8211; as was the case for France and Britain &#8211; but by a civilian politician. His name was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matthias_Erzberger\">Matthias Erzberger<\/a>. So, what happened to him? Wikipedia explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The denunciations of the conservative and national liberal press went beyond the ordinary limits of party polemics: the <em>T\u00e4gliche Rundschau<\/em> observed, in allusion to Erzberger&#8217;s personal appearance, \u201che may be as round as a bullet, but he is not bullet-proof.\u201d\u00a0The climax of these attacks was that Erzberger was murdered on 26 August 1921 in Bad Griesbach, a spa in the Black Forest (Baden) while he was out for a walk.<\/p>\n<p>Due to his signing the armistice of 1918, Erzberger was regarded as a traitor by many on the political right. Manfred von Killinger, a leading member of the Germanenorden, masterminded his killing by recruiting two members of the ultra-nationalist death squad Organisation Consul: Heinrich Tillessen and Heinrich Schulz. Both were former Navy officers and members of the disbanded Marinebrigade Ehrhardt.<\/p>\n<p>Erzberger&#8217;s assassins were later smuggled into Hungary and were prosecuted only after World War II.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have just commemorated the centenary of the ending of the First World War. We all know that, following an Armistice Agreement signed in a railway carriage in rural France, hostilities ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. But, until watching a BBC2 documentary entitled &#8220;WW1: The Final Hours&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23805"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23812,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23805\/revisions\/23812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}