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Umm, ok. So quite possibly hearsay or rumour or conjecture based on a certain reading or events?Unfortunately no, but I didn't pick it up here but when I was at University years ago.
Well ... there isn't any "true" source esp. of citation, that could be used for ... if taken as a whole and not 'cut-to-fit' alleged oh-so-baad prussian-german militarism propaganda.
So, no sources then? Just a feeling based on how things went OTL rather than actual laws or regulations?
So, if the money had been available - say if the Navy was being kept smaller and correspondingly the Army could be larger due to more recruits - there would be no bar to it happening?...Josias von Heeringen was confronted with such questions during his fight for yet another increase of the army (army laws-"Heeresvorlagen" 1912 and 1913) with not having enough officers. He as well as his successor Falkenhayn both 'only' argued that the complement of higher educated pupils was - statistically - higher within the nobility. But both were open to non-noble officers as long as they brought proper preeducation (higher school teaching, numerus clausus).
However the resistances that really counted against further increases of the armed forces were in every case either the Reichstag or the Prussian diet for financial reasons. ... or other political meddlings. ... or other contenders for the money (Tirpitz).
But at that times the arguement that only nobles were able to become officers was well off the table even with Kaiser Bill who simply and happily made numerous officers of burguois descendancy into nobles.
That’s what I was saying.As I understand it there were plenty of bourgeois line officers, those who would do their 25 years and become Majors and Lt Colonels and then retire, maybe 2/3-3/4. However beyond those ranks and in the General Staff the bourgois thinned out while the nobles got promoted.