Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937)
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- Name (English)
- Erich Ludendorff
- Short name
- Erich Ludendorff
- Year of birth
- 1865
- Year of death
- 1937
- Short Description
- "Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German general, politician and military theorist. He achieved fame during World War I for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914. Following his appointment as First Quartermaster-general (German: Erster Generalquartiermeister) of the Imperial Army's Great General Staff in 1916, he became the chief policymaker in a de facto military dictatorship that dominated Germany for the rest of the war. After Germany's defeat, he contributed significantly to the Nazis' rise to power.
Erich Ludendorff came from a family of the minor nobility in Ludendorff, located in the Prussian province of Posen. After completing his education as a cadet, he received his commission as a junior officer in 1885. Later in 1893, Ludendorff was admitted to the prestigious German War Academy and was recommended by its commandant to the General Staff Corps only a year later. By 1904, he had rapidly risen in rank to become a member of the Army's Great General Staff, where he oversaw the development of the Schlieffen Plan." - (en.wikipedia.org 11.08.2021) - Entity Encoding
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Postkarte
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Skatspiel, Deutsche Kriegsspielkarte
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"Hindenburg und Ludendorff am Kartentisch"
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"Urkunden der Obersten Heeresleitung über ihre Tätigkeit 1916-18" von Erich Ludendorff
Die "Urkunden der Obersten...
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Image: Förder- und Heimatverein Stadt und Kloster Jerichow e.V. - CC BY-NC-SA
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