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22 de ene. de 2016 · World War 1 Leaders: The 10 Greatest German Generals of 1914-1918. Following the unification of Germany in 1871, the scene was set for the powers in Central Europe to begin flexing their collective muscles. With imperial aspirations running rampant, events in the Balkans in 1914 rapidly escalated into a full-blown conflict between ...
- Philippe Petain
- Douglas Haig
- Armando Diaz
French Marshal Philippe Petain fought the Germans and collaborated with the same in the two different world wars. While he is popularly remembered to have collaborated with Germany during the 2nd World War, he actually headed the troops that fought and repulsed the German attack at Verdunin World War 1 (1916). This made him a national hero. He had ...
Douglas Haig was a British Field Marshal. He replaced John French in late 1915 as Commander in Chiefof the British Expeditionary Force, BEF, and held the position until the end of World War 1. He led the British troops in the Somme Offensive in 1917 and a year later in the Battle of Passchendaele. Even though both of the battles suffered massive ca...
He was an Italian general and Field Marshal born in Spain. Armando Diaz served as corps commander of the Italian forces after being promoted from the position of major-general under Luigi Cadorna. He replaced Cadorna as Italian Army’s Chief of Staff after the tragedy at the Battle of Caporettoin the fall of 1917. In 1917 he repulsed the Austro-Hung...
Marshal of France Philippe Petain is best known as the leader of the so-called Vichy France and for collaboration with the Germans during World War II. But Petain was also one of the greatest World War I generals and was hailed as a national hero after repulsing the German attack at Verdun in 1916.
Prussian Army. Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff ( German pronunciation: [ˈeːrɪç ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈluːdn̩ˌdɔʁf]; 9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German general, politician and military theorist. He achieved fame during World War I for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in ...
- 1883–1918
- General der Infanterie
2 de sept. de 2022 · Educated in the cadet corps, General Erich Ludendorff was a top German military commander during the latter stages of the First World War. At the start of the war, he was the quartermaster general to Bulow’s Second Army, having the responsibility of capturing the Liege forts.
Max von Boehn (general) Felix Graf von Bothmer. Otto von Brandenstein. Karl von Bülow. Johannes von Busse. C. Adolph von Carlowitz. Oskar von Chelius. Richard von Conta. D. Berthold von Deimling. Karl Ludwig d'Elsa. E. Johannes von Eben. Magnus von Eberhardt. Walter von Eberhardt. Hermann von Eichhorn. Karl von Einem.
22 de mar. de 2024 · Erich Ludendorff (born April 9, 1865, Kruszewnia, near Poznań, Prussian Poland—died Dec. 20, 1937, Munich, Ger.) was a Prussian general who was mainly responsible for Germany ’s military policy and strategy in the latter years of World War I.