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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.
Nine days later the Eighth Army surrounded most of a Russian army at Tannenberg, taking 92,000 prisoners in one of the great victories in German history. Twice during the battle Ludendorff wanted to break off, fearing that the second Russian army was about to strike their rear, but Hindenburg held firm.
Hindenburg at Tannenberg, by Hugo Vogel. Colonel General Maximilian von Prittwitz, Commander, replaced on August 23 Colonel General Paul von Hindenburg, Commander . Maj. Gen. Erich Ludendorff, Chief of Staff
The Russian offensive in the Battle of Stallupönen, which was the opening battle of the Eastern Front, [55] quickly turned to a disastrous defeat following the Battle of Tannenberg in August 1914; [56] even though the Russians were successfully defending at Gumbinnen a while before Tannenberg.
Stębark [ˈstɛmbark] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grunwald, within Ostróda County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. [2] The village is chiefly known for two historic battles which took place there or nearby: the 1410 Battle of Grunwald and the (Second) Battle of Tannenberg in World War I.
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 ...
Operation Tannenberg, codename of an extermination action directed at the Polish people during World War II; Tannenberg (minelayer), a World War II era German minelayer converted from civilian vessel, see List of World War II ships; V 303 Tannenberg, a World War II vorpostenboot, served as a civilian fishing trawler pre- and post-war