The elder Helmuth von Moltke, chief of the German general staff from 1858 to 1888, decided that Germany should stay at first on the defensive in the west and deal a crippling blow to Russia’s advanced forces before turning to counterattack the French advance. His immediate successor,…, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder was a Prussian field marshal who served as the chief of staff of the Prussian Army for 30 years. He is best known for devising modern ways of directing the armies on the field. He was born and raised into an aristocratic German family..
Helmuth Carl Bernhard von Moltke was born at Parchim, in Mecklenburg, on October 26, 1800. In that minor German State, his family had long been established, and in its army his father was an officer. Yet in his childhood they moved to Holstein, and Helmuth was trained in the military school at Copenhagen.
9/22/2020 · Field Marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke ( 26 October 1800 – 24 April 1891) was Chief of Staff of the Prussian General Staff from 1857 to 1871 and then of the Great General Staff (GGS) from 1871 to 1888. He was an architect of Germany’s Wars of Unification (1864–71). He is often referred to as Moltke the Elder to distinguish him from his …
Eternal peace is a dream – and not even a beautiful one. Helmuth von Moltke the Elder. Beautiful, Dream, Eternal. 62 Copy quote. The Jews form a state, and, obeying their own laws, they evade those of their host country. the Jews always considered an oath regarding a Christian not binding.
Helmuth von Moltke, the Elder On the Nature of War [In this letter to the international law expert, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli (1808-81), Count Helmuth von Moltke expressed his philosophical views on the necessity of war. Moltke was born in Mecklenburg, served the King of Denmark and the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire before returning to Prussia …
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Otto von Bismarck, Albrecht von Roon, Carl von Clausewitz, Alfred von Schlieffen
