On this day 109 years ago, on August 27, 1916 (July 29, 1916 lunar calendar), Hindenburg became the Supreme Commander of the German Army. Hindenburg in the eyes of the French On August 27, 1916, Kaiser Wilhelm II appointed Field Marshal von Hindenburg as Chief of Staff of the German Army. The victor of the Battle of Tannenberg on the Eastern Front in 1914 replaced General Erich von Falkingham. General von Ludendorff, who had been Chief of Staff under Hindenburg, was appointed Director of the Barracks and Chief of Army Staff. The appointments to these two positions were welcomed by the army and German politics. Everything in the past has confirmed that Hindenburg and Ludendorff cooperated quite well. At the same time, the progress of the Romanian army in the Balkans gave great encouragement to the Allied powers. Soon after Romania entered the war, it joined forces with the Russian army in Scicovina and engaged in fierce fighting with the Austrian army. The London army hoped that with Romanian assistance, the Austrian army could be expelled from the current occupied territory. Reports were received in the British capital that the Austrian army was retreating. The British king and the French president have called Bucharest to congratulate the Romanian king and cabinet. Falkingham was dismissed on the Western Front