 After World War I, the German Weimar government had to face the regulations of the 1919 Versailles treaty, whereafter the remaining "Reichswehr" and "Reichsmarine" forces had to be greatly reduced and from that time on used the complex jointly.It also served as the seat of the first Reichswehr Minister Gustav Noske and supreme army commander Walther Reinhardt.In Minister Noske's office, "Truppenamt" chief Major General Hans von Seeckt openly rejected an intervention of Reichswehr troops against paramilitary "Freikorps" forces during the 1920 Kapp Putsch ("Reichswehr do not fire on Reichswehr").