Alfred, Count of Schlieffen (German pronunciation: [ˈʃliːfn̩]; 28 February 1833 – 4 January 1913) was a German field marshal and strategist who served...

of Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen and his thinking on an invasion of France and Belgium, which began on 4 August 1914. Schlieffen was Chief of the...

the General Staff. In 1906, he became chief on the retirement of Alfred von Schlieffen. His appointment was controversial then and remains so today. The...

in 1905, and two years later, he married Leonie von der Osten, who was 22 years old. When Schlieffen retired in 1906, Mackensen was considered as a possible...

Alfred Ludwig Heinrich Karl Graf von Waldersee (8 April 1832 – 5 March 1904) was a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) who became Chief of the...

ever seriously considered. The German Army, under Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen, assigned at least 100,000 troops in the invasion, was certain that...

(1884–1973), American farmer and politician Alfred von Schlieffen (1833–1913), German field marshal and strategist Alfred Thambiayah (1903–unknown), Sri Lankan...

German General Staff Alfred von Schlieffen, whose "Schlieffen Plan" was inspired by Hannibal's double envelopment maneuver. Schlieffen believed that the...

major. His section was led by Count Alfred von Schlieffen, a student of encirclement battles like Cannae, whose Schlieffen Plan proposed to pocket the French...

history. Adolph von Schlieffen (1841–1916) Alfred von Schlieffen (1833–1913), field marshal and author of the Schlieffen Plan Anton von Schlieffen (1576–1650)...

General Staff Alfred von Schlieffen called for a preventive war against France. At a critical point in the July Crisis of 1914, Helmuth von Moltke, the...

joined the Great General Staff in Berlin, which was commanded by Alfred von Schlieffen, Ludendorff directed the Second or Mobilization Section from 1904...

who had once joined him or submitted to him. Count Alfred von Schlieffen developed his "Schlieffen Plan" (1905/1906) from his military studies, including...

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forces of Metropolitan France indefinitely, the General Staff under Alfred von Schlieffen determined that British neutrality in a future conflict could no...

west and the east. Therefore, the German General Staff, led by Alfred von Schlieffen from 1891 to 1906, developed a plan that called for German armies...

third option as the most likely Russian course of action. In 1894 Alfred von Schlieffen, then Chief of the German General Staff, war-gamed a scenario that...

York von Wartenburg [The Life of Field Marshal Count York von Wartenberg]. Phaidon Publishing. ISBN 3-88851-160-7. Ehlert, Hans (2014). The Schlieffen Plan:...

essential to his successor, Alfred von Schlieffen, who planned quickly to defeat France by sweeping through Belgium (the Schlieffen Plan) in response to the...

Academy in Berlin. He then worked for a while for Alfred von Schlieffen, later being described as "Schlieffen's favorite disciple", and in 1907 took command...

German army had begun: the extermination of the Herero nation. Alfred von Schlieffen (Chief of the Imperial German General Staff) approved of Trotha's...

trapping the French army against the Swiss border. The plan's creator, Alfred von Schlieffen, head of the German General Staff from 1891 to 1906, estimated that...

Gete river, with two divisions further forward at Liège and Namur. Alfred von Schlieffen, Chief of the Imperial German General Staff (Oberste Heeresleitung...

network and for deployment routes were based the deployment plans of Alfred von Schlieffen, the Chief of the General Staff of the German Army from 1891 to...

Maunoury and Fernand de Langle de Cary; Germany: Eric Ludendorff, Alfred von Schlieffen ("of the two classes of Prussian officer, the bullnecked and the...

German Schlieffen Plan is a notable example of the cult of the offensive. Supported by offensively-minded officers such as Alfred von Schlieffen and Helmuth...

U-470 U-540 U-608 U-631 U-762 U-841 U-842 U-844 Schlieffen was named for Count Alfred von Schlieffen, a Prussian field marshal and strategist of the 19th...

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Carl von Clausewitz (1 June 1780 – 16 November 1831), Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (26 October 1800 – 24 April 1891) and Alfred von Schlieffen (28 February...