List of Famous people with last name Ludendorff

Erich Ludendorff

First Name Erich
Last Name Ludendorff
Born on April 9, 1865
Died on December 20, 1937 (aged 72)

Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff was a German general, politician and military theorist. He achieved fame during World War I for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914. Upon his rise to First Quartermaster-general of the Imperial Army's Great General Staff in 1916, he became the chief policymaker in a de facto military dictatorship that dominated Germany for the rest of the war. After Germany's defeat, he emerged as a leading figure in the nation's right-wing fringe and contributed significantly to the Nazis' rise to power.

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Mathilde Ludendorff

First Name Mathilde
Born on October 4, 1877
Died on June 24, 1966 (aged 88)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Mathilde Friederike Karoline Ludendorff was a German psychiatrist. She was a leading figure in the Völkisch movement known for her esoteric and conspiratorial ideas. Her third husband was General Erich Ludendorff. Together with Ludendorff, she founded the Bund für Gotteserkenntnis (in German), a small and rather obscure esoterical society of theists, which was banned from 1961 to 1977.

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