LUDENDORFF, ERICH

āˈrĭkh looˈdəndôrf, 1865–1937, German general. A disciple of Schlieffen, he served in World War I as chief of staff to Field Marshal Hindenburg and was largely responsible for German military decisions. After Hindenburg became supreme military commander in 1916, Ludendorff also intervened in civilian rule. In 1917 he forced Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg to resign; his successors were subordinate to the military leaders. When the German military offensive collapsed (Aug., 1918), Ludendorff demanded an armistice (Sept. 29, 1918). Several days later he was dismissed by the new government of Maximilian, prince of Baden and fled to Sweden. Returning in 1919, he took part in the ultranationalist Kapp putsch (1920) and in the "beer-hall putsch" (1923) of Adolf Hitler. He was acquitted in the subsequent trial, was a National Socialist member of the Reichstag (1924–28), and ran unsuccessfully for president in 1925. Meanwhile, he and his second wife, Mathilde, were proponents of a new "Aryan" racist religion. Ludendorff wrote pamphlets accusing the pope, the Jesuits, the Jews, and the Freemasons of a common plot against Aryans. Later he became alienated from Hitler. His writings include Ludendorff's Own Story (tr. 1919) and The General Staff and Its Problems (tr. 1920).

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From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars
Book by Ursula Hardt; Berghahn Books, 1996
Subjects: Motion Picture Producers And Directors--Germany--Biography, Pommer, Erich--1889-1966
...70 , 77 , 101 n36, 103 , 105 , 131 n79, 157 n61 Ludendorff, Erich, 26 MacCann, Richard Dyer, 6 , 8 , 18 , 24 Madame...169 , 204 Michael , 6 , 9 n27, 77 - 78 Morawsky, Erich, 18 , 23 Motion Picture Association of America, MPAA...
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Hitler and Beyond, a German Testament
Book by Erich Koch-Weser, Olga Marx; A.A. Knopf, 1945
Subjects: Germany--Politics And Government--20th Century, Hitler, Adolf--1889-1945, National Socialism, Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Germany
...general headquarters. Hindenburg and Ludendorff would have resigned if "our favorable...peace offers. From general headquarters Ludendorff ruled the army and the Reich. When...steeply from Bismarck to the Kaiser and Ludendorff and on to Hitler. Ludendorff had no...
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May Man Prevail? An Inquiry into the Facts and Fictions of Foreign Policy
Book by Erich Fromm; Doubleday, 1961
Subjects: Communism, World Politics--1955-1965
...mistake in the choice of their leader. The parallel between Ludendorff and Hitler is, indeed, striking. Both were gifted yet hysterical...the war. One difference, and an important one, is that Ludendorff, when he eventually saw that everything was lost, gave up...
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Lost Victories
Book by Erich Von Manstein, Anthony G. Powell; Henry Regnery, 1958
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns
...indispensable. It will be remembered that when the German offensive came to a standstill in 1918, even such a notable commander as Ludendorff could not bring himself, by a boldly conceived withdrawal, to precipitate the war of movement in which Germanys last hope...
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War and Punishment: The Causes of War Termination and the First World War
Book by H. E. Goemans; Princeton University Press, 2000
Subjects: Capitulations, Military, Peace, Peace Treaties, World War, 1914-1918--Armistices
...History 55 1968 69 : 281 91. Ludendorff, Erich. The General Staff and Its...London: Hutchinson, 1920. Ludendorff, Erich. Kriegsfuhrung und Politik...Mittler und Sohn, 1922. Ludendorff, Erich. Meine Kriegserinnerungen...
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journal articles on: Ludendorff Erich  - 25 results

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German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich Von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916
Journal article by Neil M. Heyman; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich Von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916 (Book)--Book reviews
...Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development...This study places the strategy of Erich von Falkenhayn in the context of...of 1916. His successors, like Erich Ludendorff, returned to a strategy of seeking...
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The Battle of the Marne: Myths and Reality of Germany's "Fateful Battle" (1)
Journal article by Annika Mombauer; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Battles--Myths and legends
...second secret meeting. (34) Erich Ludendorff was also skeptical. Had such...N56/2, NL Tappen. (35). Erich Ludendorff, Das Marne-Drama. Der Fall...Hentsch (Munich, Germany: Ludendorff Verlag, 1934), 15-16...
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Securing the German Domestic Front in the Second World War: Prosecution of Subversion before the People's Court
Journal article by Steven R. Welch; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 53, 2007
Subjects: Capital punishment--Laws, regulations and rules, German history, Malicious prosecution--Cases
...Weltkrieg (1918-1933) (Berlin, 2003). (5) Erich Ludendorff, Kriegsfuhrung und Politik (Berlin, 1922), p. 328. (6) Erich Ludendorff, The Nation at War, trans. A.S. Rappoport...
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Was the Civil War a Total War?
Journal article by Mark E. Neely Jr.; Civil War History, Vol. 50, 2004
Subjects: United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Analysis, War--Analysis, Wars--Analysis
...written by the German Great War general Erich Ludendorff, and published in Munich in 1935. Ludendorff used the term to suggest that modern wars...top, a military dictator (presumably Ludendorff himself). (10) These seem like strangely...
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Bulgaria in the First World War
Journal article by Richard C. Hall; The Historian, Vol. 73, 2011
Subjects: Bulgaria--Military aspects, Bulgarian foreign relations--History, Bulgarian history, Markov, Georgi--Works, World War I, 1914-1918
...in the fall of 1918. General Erich Ludendorff, who directed the German war...vol. 1, 252-7. (21.) Erich von Falkenhayn, The German General...October 1918, 1090. (41.) Erich von Ludendorff, Ludendorffs Own Story, New...
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magazine articles on: Ludendorff Erich  - 12 results

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Stabbed at the Front: After 1918 the Myth Was Created That the German Army Only Lost the War Because It Had Been 'Stabbed in the Back' by Defeatists and Revolutionaries on the Home Front. Alexander Watson Reviews the Clear Evidence That in Reality It Simply Lost the Will to Go on Fighting
Magazine article by Alexander Watson; History Today, Vol. 58, November 2008
Subjects: Armies--History, Germany (World War I)--History, Third Reich, 1933-1945--History
...Germanys military leaders, General Erich Ludendorff and Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg...withdrawal from the war allowed Ludendorff to plan a major last card offensive...and eighty of them deserted. Ludendorff later suggested that young recruits...
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The Schlieffen Plan-Fantasy or Catastrophe? Terence Zuber Argues That the German Army's Rigid Plan for a Quick Victory in France in 1914 Was a Postwar Fabrication
Magazine article by Terence Zuber; History Today, Vol. 52, September 2002
Subjects: Campaign management--Analysis, France--Military aspects, Germany--Military aspects, World War, 1914-1918--Analysis
...dead by 1920. From 1908 to 1912 Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937) was the head...failed to execute it properly. Ludendorff supported this contention by...divisions, not fifty-four. Ludendorff acknowledged that the Schlieffen...
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The Relevance of Gen. William E. Depuy
Magazine article by Henry G. Gole; Army, Vol. 58, March 2008
Subjects: Armed forces, Congressional committees, Leadership, World War I
...this piece with an admonition he credits to Gen. Erich Ludendorff: "A strategical plan which ignores the tactical...foredoomed to failure." (The reverse is also true, as Ludendorff learned in the spring of 1918, when his many tactical...
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The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
Magazine article by Andrew J. Bacevich; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 23, Summer 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews
...Rather than traitorous politicians, he fingers General Erich Ludendorff, whose famous loss of nerve after Germanys failed...not the German armys capacity to kill. "It was Ludendorff who delivered the fateful stab," he writes, "and...
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Lessons Learned from the Battle of the Bulge
Magazine article by Thomas D. Morgan; Army, Vol. 54, December 2004
Subjects: Battlefields, Memorials & monuments, World War II
...a weak force. In fact, the Germans attacked with a 4-to-1 advantage, about the same as that used by Gen. Erich Ludendorff in the great final offensive on the Western front in March 1918. Tight German security had also worked against them...
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encyclopedia articles on: Ludendorff Erich  - 4 results

 
 
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Ludendorff, Erich
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LUDENDORFF, ERICH a rikh loo d ndorf, 1865 1937, German...supreme military commander in 1916, Ludendorff also intervened in civilian rule...offensive collapsed (Aug., 1918), Ludendorff demanded an armistice (Sept. 29...
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Germany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...von Hindenburg and Chief of Staff Erich Ludendorff , who together controlled Germany...secretary of the SED and was replaced by Erich Honecker . Under Honecker, most...successively by Kurt Schumacher, Erich Ollenauer, and Willy Brandt , was...
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William II , Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Decline and Abdication After the outbreak of World War I Williams power declined. From 1917 the military leaders Erich Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg were the virtual dictators of Germany. The failure of the great German drive of 1918 was...
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Michaelis, Georg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...succeeded Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg as imperial chancellor and was dominated by the military leaders, particularly Erich Ludendorff . When asked to endorse the resolution passed by the Reichstag favoring peace without annexation or indemnities...


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