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Ludendorff, Erich (1971) [1920]. Ludendorff's Own Story: August 1914 – November 1918; the Great War from the siege of Liège to the signing of the armistice as viewed from the grand headquarters of the German Army. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press. ISBN 0-8369-5956-6. Ludendorff, Erich. The Coming War. Faber and Faber, 1931.
Ludendorff in 1918. During Germany's early Weimar period, Ludendorff had joined the chauvinist Aufbau Vereinigung and met with Adolf Hitler through the agency of Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter. [1] He participated in Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch on 9 November 1923, after which their relationship increasingly deteriorated.
Paul von Hindenburg (l.) and Erich Ludendorff, September 1916 The Hindenburg Programme of August 1916 is the name given to the armaments and economic policy begun in late 1916 by the Third Oberste Heeresleitung (OHL, headquarters of the German General Staff ), Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and General Erich Ludendorff .
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Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) Generalquartiermeister: 29 August 1916: 26 October 1918: 2 years, 58 days: 3b: Generalleutenant Wilhelm Groener (1867–1939)
These grievances led the emperor to question the position of his Chief of Staff and to focus on the two German leaders of the Eastern Front: Paul von Hindenburg and his second-in-command, Erich Ludendorff. [9] On 29 August 1916 Wilhelm II asked them to come to Pless, which was then the headquarters of the General Staff. Erich von Falkenhayn ...
Summoned in response to the defeat on August 8, 1918, [N 2] the Crown Council convened on 13 August 1918, under the presidency of Emperor Wilhelm II. The council included key figures such as the military leaders Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff (then First Quartermaster General), [N 3] Chancellor Georg von Hertling, State Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Reich Paul von Hintze, and ...
General Erich Ludendorff (left) with Colonel Max Hoffmann on the Eastern Front, 1915–1916. Then, Hindenburg, Ludendorff and Hoffmann led a new Ninth Army in blocking a Russian attempt to invade German Silesia, continuing the campaign after being given command of all of the German forces on the Eastern Front, which were designated as Ober Ost.