Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈluːdn̩dɔʁf] ⓘ; 9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a Prussian-born German military officer and politician.
The German spring offensive, also known as Kaiserschlacht ("Kaiser's Battle") or the Ludendorff offensive, was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during the First World War, beginning on 21 March 1918.
As part of a program to reintegrate the Reich and its allies into the global economy, Erich Ludendorff initiated an economic program for the first time, geared towards building an autarkic economy around the Mitteleuropa economic bloc. The annexations he advocated aimed to directly control the Lorraine and Polish steel basins, and create a ...
Erich Ludendorff and Hening von Holtzendorff wanted to establish political and military control over the Kingdom of Belgium. Ludendorff was a staunch advocate of annexing all Belgian territory on the right bank of the Meuse to the Reich; Paul von Hindenburg expressly defined Liège and the surrounding area on the left bank as a region to be ...
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 ...
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 .
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 ...
Ludendorff hoped to split the French in two. "German soldiers advancing past a captured French position, between Loivre and Brimont, Marne department, 1918" [ attribution needed ] East of Reims the French Fourth Army had prepared a defense in depth to counter an intense bombardment and infiltrating infantry.