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Max Hoffmann

1869 - 1927

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Carl Adolf Maximilian Hoffmann (25 January 1869 – 8 July 1927) was a German military officer and strategist. As a staff officer at the beginning of World War I, he was Deputy Chief of Staff of the 8th Army, soon promoted Chief of Staff. Hoffmann, along with Erich Ludendorff, masterminded the devastating defeat of the Russian armies at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Hoffmann has received more than 272,709 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Max Hoffmann is the 463rd most popular military personnel (up from 511th in 2019), the 1,133rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,232nd in 2019) and the 92nd most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Max Hoffmann ranks 463 out of 2,058. Before him are Jan Kubiš, Arthur III, Duke of Brittany, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, and Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim. After him are Lian Po, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Johannes Frießner, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Fyodor Ushakov, and Andreas Hofer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Max Hoffmann ranks 34. Before him are Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Albert Roussel, Francisco Largo Caballero, Martin Andersen Nexø, Óscar Carmona, and Bogd Khan. After him are Pyotr Krasnov, Henri Désiré Landru, Carl Schuhmann, Vasily Bartold, Gaetano Bresci, and Mary Mallon. Among people deceased in 1927, Max Hoffmann ranks 22. Before him are Giuseppe Moscati, Yusef of Morocco, Paul Sérusier, Armand Guillaumin, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, and Edward B. Titchener. After him are Li Dazhao, Adolph Joffe, Enrique Simonet, Saad Zaghloul, Michael Ancher, and Louise Abbéma.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Hoffmann ranks 1,133 out of 7,253. Before him are Bruno the Great (925), Severinus of Noricum (410), Christoph Scheiner (1575), Ernst Zermelo (1871), August von Kotzebue (1761), and Wilhelm Groener (1867). After him are Johannes Frießner (1892), Elisabeth of the Palatinate (1618), Lucian Freud (1922), Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1732), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), and Margarethe von Trotta (1942).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Max Hoffmann ranks 92. Before him are August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760), Erich Kempka (1910), Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752), Georg-Hans Reinhardt (1887), Viktor Lutze (1890), and Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594). After him are Johannes Frießner (1892), Karl von Bülow (1846), Alfred von Waldersee (1832), Adolf Strauss (1879), Günther Korten (1898), and Josef Harpe (1887).

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