Field Marshal Alfred, Graf vonSchlieffen (February 28, 1833 - January 4, 1913), German field marshal and strategist, served as Chief of the German Imperial General Staff from 1891 to 1905.
Schlieffen was born in Berlin in February 1833 the son of a Prussian army officer.
Schlieffen's operational theories were to have a profound impact on the development of maneuver warfare in the twentieth century, largely through his seminal treatise, Cannae.
AlfredvonSchlieffen (1833-1913) was the German Field Marshal who, as chief of the general staff from 1891-1905, was responsible for devising the Schlieffen Plan, upon which German strategy at the outbreak of the war was unsuccessfully based.
Schlieffen, born on 28 February 1833, was the son of a Prussian general, and entered the army himself in 1854.
AlfredvonSchlieffen died on 4 January 1913 in Berlin.
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