Max Hoffmann
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Carl Adolf Maximilian Hoffmann was a German military officer and strategist. As a staff officer at the beginning of World War I, he was Deputy Chief of Staff of the 8th Army, soon promoted Chief of Staff.
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Foreign officers in the Russo-Japanese War, with Hoffmann at the far left of the front row
General Erich Ludendorff (left) with Colonel Max Hoffmann on the Eastern Front, 1915-1916
The entrance to the fortress at Brest-Litovsk, the headquarters for the Eastern Front and the site of the peace negotiations
Grave of Max Hoffmann (1927) on the Invalidenfriedhof BerlinAwards 1
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Carl Adolf Maximilian Hoffmann was a German military officer and strategist. As a staff officer at the beginning of World War I, he was Deputy Chief of Staff of the 8th Army, soon promoted Chief of Staff. Hoffmann, along with Erich Ludendorff, masterminded the devastating defeat of the Russian armies at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes. He then held the position of Chief of Staff of the Eastern Front. At the end of 1917, he negotiated with Russia to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
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