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Erich Ludendorff

1865 - 1937

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Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈluːdn̩dɔʁf] ; 9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a Prussian-born German military officer and politician. He achieved fame during World War I for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914. After his appointment as First Quartermaster General of the Army General Staff in 1916, he became the chief policymaker in a de facto military dictatorship until Germany's defeat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich Ludendorff has received more than 3,857,015 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Erich Ludendorff is the 53rd most popular military personnel (up from 60th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Poland and the 2nd most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Erich Ludendorff was a German general during World War I. He was in charge of the German armies on the Western Front. He is most famous for his role in the German defeat in 1918.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Erich Ludendorff ranks 53 out of 2,058. Before him are Isoroku Yamamoto, Michel Ney, Roland, Baron Munchausen, Mikhail Kutuzov, and Flavius Aetius. After him are Prince Eugene of Savoy, Gerd von Rundstedt, Vasily Zaitsev, Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan, Ernst Röhm, and Albrecht von Wallenstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Erich Ludendorff ranks 5. Before him are Jean Sibelius, Rudyard Kipling, George V, and Pieter Zeeman. After him are Alexander Glazunov, Archduke Otto of Austria, Warren G. Harding, Suzanne Valadon, Ferdinand I of Romania, Arthur Harden, and W. B. Yeats. Among people deceased in 1937, Erich Ludendorff ranks 9. Before him are Guglielmo Marconi, Alfred Adler, Pierre de Coubertin, Antonio Gramsci, John D. Rockefeller, and Maurice Ravel. After him are Amelia Earhart, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, George Gershwin, and Gustaf Dalén.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Erich Ludendorff ranks 21 out of 1,694. Before him are Fritz Haber (1868), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Marie Leszczyńska (1703), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Władysław Szpilman (1911), and Wernher von Braun (1912). After him are Wisława Szymborska (1923), Janusz Korczak (1878), Lech Kaczyński (1949), Fedor von Bock (1880), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), and Eric of Pomerania (1381).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Erich Ludendorff ranks 2. Before him are Manfred von Richthofen (1892). After him are Fedor von Bock (1880), Günther von Kluge (1882), Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896), Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916), Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Anton Denikin (1872), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), and Władysław Sikorski (1881).

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