Major Alfred von Wegerer

Von Wegerer was born in 1880 and died in 1945. He had served in the German Army in the war and ended it with the rank of Major. He had then been a Volkisch activist; in 1923 he became the Head of The Centre for the Study of the Causes of the War, which had been founded in 1921 under a Swiss Doctor, Ernst von Sauerbeck. The Centre was part of an official campaign by the Weimar Republic, and later the Third Reich, to counter Allied charges of German war guilt, and to suggest consequences.