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Erich von Falkenhayn

1861 - 1922

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Erich Georg Sebastian Anton von Falkenhayn (11 September 1861 – 8 April 1922) was a German general and Ottoman Field Marshal who served as Prussian Minister of War and Chief of the German General Staff during the First World War. Falkenhayn replaced General Helmuth von Moltke the Younger in September 1914 after his invasion of France was stopped at the First Battle of the Marne and was in turn removed on 29 August 1916 after the failure of his offensive strategy in the west at the Battle of Verdun, the opening of the Battle of the Somme, the Brusilov Offensive and the Romanian entry into the war. Having planned to win the war before 1917, the German army was reduced to hanging on. Falkenhayn was given important field commands in Romania and Syria. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erich von Falkenhayn is the 149th most popular military personnel (down from 119th in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from Poland (down from 69th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Erich von Falkenhayn was a German General who was Chief of the General Staff of the German Army from 1914 to 1916. He is most famous for his plan to break the Allied line in the Battle of Verdun.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Erich von Falkenhayn ranks 149 out of 2,058. Before him are Franz Halder, Bohemond I of Antioch, André Masséna, Erwin von Witzleben, Yakov Dzhugashvili, and Minamoto no Yoshitsune. After him are Helmuth Weidling, Perdiccas, John Hawkins, Pyotr Bagration, Zhang Fei, and Hermann Fegelein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Erich von Falkenhayn ranks 12. Before him are Lou Andreas-Salomé, Georges Méliès, Edith Roosevelt, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Victor Horta, and Georgy Lvov. After him are Alfred North Whitehead, Halford Mackinder, Aristide Maillol, Robert Bosch, José Rizal, and Pehr Evind Svinhufvud. Among people deceased in 1922, Erich von Falkenhayn ranks 8. Before him are Alexander Graham Bell, Marcel Proust, Charles I of Austria, Fredrik Bajer, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, and Enver Pasha. After him are Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Ernest Shackleton, Djemal Pasha, Hermann Rorschach, Walther Rathenau, and Albert I, Prince of Monaco.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Erich von Falkenhayn ranks 79 out of 1,694. Before him are Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), and Benoit Mandelbrot (1924). After him are Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Horst Köhler (1943), Jan Matejko (1838), and Krzysztof Penderecki (1933).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Erich von Falkenhayn ranks 9. Before him are Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Günther von Kluge (1882), Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916), Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896), Werner von Blomberg (1878), and Erwin von Witzleben (1881). After him are Anton Denikin (1872), Władysław Sikorski (1881), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), and Otto Liman von Sanders (1855).

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