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Alfred von Schlieffen

1833 - 1913

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Graf Alfred von Schlieffen (German pronunciation: [ˈʃliːfn̩]; 28 February 1833 – 4 January 1913) was a German field marshal and strategist who served as chief of the Imperial German General Staff from 1891 to 1906. His name lived on in the 1905–06 "Schlieffen Plan", then Aufmarsch I, a deployment plan and operational guide for a decisive initial offensive operation/campaign in a two-front war against the French Third Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred von Schlieffen is the 203rd most popular military personnel (down from 156th in 2019), the 531st most popular biography from Germany (down from 382nd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular German Military Personnel.

Alfred von Schlieffen is most famous for his plan to invade France via Belgium in the event of a war with France and Russia.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alfred von Schlieffen ranks 203 out of 2,058. Before him are Mikhail Frunze, Djemal Pasha, Jacques MacDonald, Zhou Yu, Chūichi Nagumo, and Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly. After him are Syagrius, Chester W. Nimitz, Henning von Tresckow, Dietrich von Choltitz, Alexandre de Beauharnais, and Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Alfred von Schlieffen ranks 10. Before him are Élie Ducommun, Alexander Borodin, Wilhelm Dilthey, Benjamin Harrison, Ferdinand von Richthofen, and Ernesto Teodoro Moneta. After him are J. E. B. Stuart, Jonas Lie, Félicien Rops, Eugen Dühring, Léon Bonnat, and Edward Burne-Jones. Among people deceased in 1913, Alfred von Schlieffen ranks 12. Before him are J. P. Morgan, Harriet Tubman, Tobias Asser, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Lesya Ukrainka, and Blanche Monnier. After him are August Bebel, Sophia of Nassau, Philip Sclater, Josephine Cochrane, Francisco I. Madero, and Ármin Vámbéry.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alfred von Schlieffen ranks 531 out of 7,253. Before him are Walter Schellenberg (1910), Uwe Seeler (1936), Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867), Gerhard Ertl (1936), Wassily Leontief (1906), and Bruno of Cologne (1030). After him are Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (1546), Felix Klein (1849), Walter Scheel (1919), Alexandra Feodorovna (1798), Maria Anna of Neuburg (1667), and Hans Baldung (1484).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Alfred von Schlieffen ranks 43. Before him are Maurice de Saxe (1696), Ernst Busch (1885), Joachim Peiper (1915), Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), Paul Hausser (1880), and Georg von Küchler (1881). After him are Henning von Tresckow (1901), Dietrich von Choltitz (1894), Kurt Meyer (1910), Friedrich Olbricht (1888), Wilhelm List (1880), and Erich Hoepner (1886).

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