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Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈluːdn̩dɔʁf] ⓘ; 9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a Prussian-born German military officer and politician.
On 9 January, before the Crown Council session, Bethmann Hollweg met with Paul von Hindenburg, chief of the German General Staff, and Erich Ludendorff, the first quartermaster general, the effective heads of the German military, to discuss the policy. Bethmann Hollweg spoke with them for about an hour to make his argument that the policy should ...
Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, pictured here in January 1917, attend the conference. Reich Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg did not physically attend the conference, [ 7 ] but it was opened and closed on his behalf by Arthur Zimmermann, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs , and his principal collaborators.
General Erich Ludendorff.His anger at comments by Germany's interim president started discussions that preceded the establishment of the committee of inquiry. In the immediate aftermath of the German Empire's defeat in World War I, a number of key military and political figures – including General Erich Ludendorff, Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and former chancellor Kuno von Westarp ...
Guillaume II, Georg Michaelis, Richard von Kühlmann, Erich Ludendorff, Paul von Hindenburg The Bingen Conference (July 31, 1917) was a German governmental meeting convened by the new Reich Chancellor [ Notes 1 ] Georg Michaelis at the initiative of Wilhelm II to define German policy in the Baltic territories occupied by the German Army since ...
The Kreuznach Conference on August 9, 1917, was a German government conference that aimed to draft the Reich Government's [nb 1] response to the proposals made on August 1, 1917, by Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Ottokar Czernin for negotiating an honorable way out of the conflict.
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 .
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 deteriorated increasingly.