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Ludendorff, Erich 1865-1937
German soldier
He was born near Posen. In 1914 he was appointed Chief of Staff in East Prussia, and masterminded the annihilation of the Russians at Tannenberg (August 1914). When Paul von Hindenburg superseded Erich von Falkenhayn in 1916, Ludendorff sent August von Mackensen (1849-1945) to the Dobruja to defeat the Romanians. On the Western Front in 1918 he planned the major offensive that nearly won the war for Germany. In 1923 he was a leader in the Hitler putsch at Munich, but he was acquitted of treason. He was a Nazi member of the Reichstag from 1924 to 1928, but as a candidate for the presidency of the Reich in 1925 he polled few votes. Strongly opposed to Jews, Jesuits and freemasons, he later became a pacifist.
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