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Alfred von Schlieffen, in full Alfred, Graf von Schlieffen, (born February 28, 1833, Berlin—died January 4, 1913, Berlin), German officer and head of the general staff who developed the plan of attack (Schlieffen Plan) that the German armies used, with significant modifications, at the outbreak of World War I.

Schlieffen Plan, battle plan first proposed in 1905 by Alfred, Graf (count) von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff, that was designed to allow Germany to wage a successful two-front war. The plan was heavily modified by Schlieffen’s successor, Helmuth von Moltke , prior to and during its implementation in World War I .

German Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen, mastermind of an aggressive German military strategy that will soon be used, in modified form, at the start of the Great War, dies on this day in 1913 ...

Schlieffen, Alfred Graf von. German (Prussian) officer and chief of General Staff. Born 28 February 1833 in Berlin, Germany. Died 04 January 1913 in Berlin, Germany. Count Alfred Schlieffen was chief of the Great General Staff of the Prussian-German Army between 1891 and 1905. He devised the so-called Schlieffen Plan, a strategic plan for a ...

The Schlieffen Plan ( German: Schlieffen-Plan, pronounced [ʃliːfən plaːn]) is a name given after the First World War to German war plans, due to the influence of Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen and his thinking on an invasion of France and Belgium, which began on 4 August 1914. Schlieffen was Chief of the General Staff of the German ...

Count Alfred von Schlieffen in 1906 (Wikimedia) A two-front war was never part of Alfred von Schlieffen’s strategic offensive plans. To be sure, “In a war against France alone he (Schlieffen) favored an all-out attack, but in a two-front war he insisted on a purely counter-offensive strategy.”[6] Holmes argues the original Schlieffen Plan ...

Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (* 28. Februar 1833 in Berlin ; † 4. Januar 1913 ebenda) [1] war ein preußischer Generalfeldmarschall , Chef des Generalstabes und Autor des Schlieffen-Planes .

Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, mostly called Count Schlieffen (German pronunciation: [ˈʃliːfən]; 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 Schlieffen Plan...