Alfred Graf von Schlieffen
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Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (
February 28,
1833 -
January 4,
1913), German
field marshal and strategist, served as Chief of the
German Imperial General Staff from
1891 to
1905. His name lived on in the meticulously conceived
Schlieffen Plan for the defeat of
France and
Russia.