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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 .
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 ...
Battle of Tannenberg: the Russian army undergoes a heavy defeat by the Germans. ... "Timeline: Australia in the First World War, 1914-1918". Australian War Memorial.
The Battle of Tannenberg Line (German: Die Schlacht um die Tannenbergstellung; Russian: Битва за линию «Танненберг») or the Battle of the Blue Hills (Estonian: Sinimägede lahing) was a military engagement between the German Army Detachment Narwa and the Soviet Leningrad Front.
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.
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.
17 August - The Battle of Tannenberg ends; 18 August - St Petersburg is renamed Petrograd; 26–30 August - Battle of Tannenberg: German victory; 29 August - Abschwangen massacre; 31 August - Emperor Nicholas II renamed St. Petersburg to Petrograd as a response to the rise of anti-German sentiment. 1 September - The Battle of the Masurian Lakes ...
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 ...