{{unreferenced, date=October 2009 The Ministry of War of Saxony was a government ministry of the

Kingdom of Saxony The Kingdom of Saxony (german: Königreich Sachsen), lasting from 1806 to 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany. The kingdom was formed from the Electorate of Saxon ...

that existed from 1831 to 1919. It subsequently briefly existed as the Ministry of Defence in the

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from 1918 until 1919, when the new

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of Germany provided for the replacement of all state ministries of defence by the

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Ministers of War (1831-1918) and Ministers of Defence (1918-1919)

*1831–1839 Johann Adolf von Zezschwitz *1843–1846 Gustav von Nostitz-Wallwitz *1847–1848 Karl Friedrich Gustav von Oppel *1848–1849 Albrecht Ernst Stellanus von Holtzendorff *1849 Karl Friedrich August von Buttlar *1849–1866 Bernhard von Rabenhorst *1866–1891 Alfred von Fabrice *1891–1902 Paul von der Planitz *1902–1914 Max Klemens Lothar von Hausen *1914–1916 Adolph von Carlowitz *1916–1918 Karl Viktor von Wilsdorf *1918–1919 Hermann Fleissner (

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) *1919 Gustav Neuring (

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) *1919 Bruno Kirchhof (SPD) Politics of Saxony

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...