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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. He then held the position of Chief of Staff of the Eastern Front. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Hoffmann is the 539th most popular military personnel (down from 463rd in 2019), the 1,370th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,133rd in 2019) and the 102nd most popular German Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Max Hoffmann ranks 539 out of 2,058. Before him are Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Adolf Heusinger, Lautaro, Oghul Qaimish, Mamai, and Köten. After him are Ante Gotovina, Hans Baur, William Tecumseh Sherman, Galdan Boshugtu Khan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Max Hoffmann ranks 42. Before him are Óscar Carmona, Martin Andersen Nexø, Henri Désiré Landru, Élie Cartan, Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, and Carl Schuhmann. After him are Gaetano Bresci, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Else Lasker-Schüler, Vasily Bartold, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia, and Hans Pfitzner. Among people deceased in 1927, Max Hoffmann ranks 27. Before him are Giuseppe Moscati, Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Johannsen, Enrique Simonet, Li Dazhao, and Reginald Dyer. After him are Adolph Joffe, Eugène Atget, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Saad Zaghloul, Vladimir Bekhterev, and Jānis Čakste.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Hoffmann ranks 1,370 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Schuhmann (1869), Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg (1684), Walter Christaller (1893), Michel Bréal (1832), Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413), and Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia (1887). After him are Gerda Christian (1913), Hans Baur (1897), Bernt Notke (1435), Sophia of Bavaria (1376), Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817), and Samuel Scheidt (1587).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Max Hoffmann ranks 102. Before him are Adolf Strauss (1879), Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1721), Theodor Busse (1897), Otto Kumm (1909), Viktor Lutze (1890), and Adolf Heusinger (1897). After him are Hans Baur (1897), Günther Korten (1898), Franz von Hipper (1863), Ernst Lindemann (1894), Walter Rauff (1906), and Günther Blumentritt (1892).

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