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Bookmark or Share- Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff - Encyclopedia.comThe German general Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (1865-1937), a brilliant strategist and successful field commander, directed Germany's total war effort during the last 2 years of World War I. He later promoted the rise of Hitler.
- Erich Ludendorff summary | BritannicaErich Ludendorff, (born April 9, 1865, Kruszewnia, near Poznań, Prussian Poland—died Dec. 20, 1937, Munich, Ger.), German general. In 1908 he joined the German army general staff and worked under Helmuth von Moltke in revising the Schlieffen Plan .
- History - Historic Figures: Erich Ludendorff (1865 - 1937) - BBCErich Ludendorff © A talented military strategist, Ludendorff's early success in World War One were obscured by Germany's defeat and his pro-Nazi political activities in the post-war period.
- Ludendorff, Erich (1865–1937) - Encyclopedia.comThe common-born Ludendorff, whose origins no one in the disintegrating Kaiserreich had forgotten, proved easily expendable in the closing weeks of the war. He fled to Sweden and immediately began to write his exculpatory memoirs. In the traumatic early years of the Weimar Republic, Ludendorff became the darling of the radical nationalists. He ...
- Erich Ludendorff | WWI German General & Strategist - BritannicaErich Ludendorff (born April 9, 1865, Kruszewnia, near Poznań, Prussian Poland—died Dec. 20, 1937, Munich, Ger.) was a Prussian general who was mainly responsible for Germany’s military policy and strategy in the latter years of World War I.
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