The victors' fear was encapsulated by the clause in the Treaty of Versailles: "The Great German General Staff and all similar organisations shall be dissolved and may not be reconstituted in any form." The German Army was permitted to have only 4,000 officers. The Weimar Republics army, the Reichswehr, was led by Hans von Seeckt. He camouflaged the general staff by renaming it the "Truppenamt" ("troop office"), and selected many general staff officers to fill the available places. The War Academy ("Kriegsakademie") was abolished, but training of general staff officers continued, dispersed among the "Wehrkreise" (Military District) headquarters but overseen by tutors from the "Truppenamt". General staff officers continued to play major roles in the nation, most strikingly when former chief of staff Paul von Hindenburg was elected president in 1925.