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The Battle of Tannenberg, also known as the Second Battle of Tannenberg, was fought between Russia and Germany between 23 and 30 August 1914, the first month of World War I. The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army and the suicide of its commanding general, Alexander Samsonov .
In the Battle of Tannenberg, the casualties of the Russian 2nd Army amounted to 120,219 KIA, WIA, MIA, while the German 8th Army had only 13,058 casualties. [42] The Second Army was destroyed and Samsonov shot himself. The Germans then forced the First and Tenth Armies to retreat out of East Prussia in the Battle of the Masurian Lakes.
The 8th Army (German: 8. Armee / Armeeoberkommando 8 / A.O.K. 8) was an army level command of the German Army in World War I.It was formed on mobilization in August 1914 from the I Army Inspectorate. [1]
The Russian offensive in the Battle of Stallupönen, which was the opening battle of the Eastern Front, [57] quickly turned to a disastrous defeat following the Battle of Tannenberg in August 1914; [58] even though the Russians were successfully defending at Gumbinnen a while before Tannenberg.
German 8th Army at the Battle of Tannenberg 26–31 August 1914 [2] XVII Army Corps – General August von Mackensen. 35th Infantry Division – Lt. Gen. Otto Hennig 70th Infantry Brigade – Maj. Gen. Heinrich Schmidt von Knobelsdorff 21st Infantry – Colonel Brunnemann 61st Infantry – Maj. Lüdecke 87th Infantry Brigade – Maj. Gen ...
Following the failed German counterattack at the Battle of Gumbinnen and the subsequent German withdrawal, the 1st Army did not press on, allowing the 2nd Army to catch up but due to a breakdown in communication (partly due to the animosity of the two commanders) the 2nd Army was not made aware of this and so it continued to march on, a fatal ...
They did so by winning the crucial victory in the Battle of Tannenberg, saving the rest of Germany from invasion. Hoffmann saw the propaganda value of casting the German victory as long-awaited revenge for a nearby medieval defeat and so he suggested the engagement be named Tannenberg, though it actually took place much closer to Allenstein.
In the early months of war on the Eastern Front, the German Eighth Army conducted a series of almost miraculous actions against the two Russian armies facing them. After surrounding and then destroying the Russian Second Army at the Battle of Tannenberg in late August, Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff wheeled their troops to face the Russian First Army at the First Battle of the ...