Alfred von Schlieffen
German general and military strategist
Died when: 79 years 311 days (958 months)Star Sign: Pisces
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Graf Alfred von Schlieffen, generally called Count Schlieffen (German pronunciation: ['?li?fn?]; 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.
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