Alfred von Schlieffen
Politician
1833 – 1913
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Who was Alfred von Schlieffen?
Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, mostly called Count Schlieffen 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 one-front war against the French Third Republic.
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- Born
- Feb 28, 1833
Berlin - Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Lived in
- Berlin
- Died
- Jan 4, 1913
Berlin
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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