1925 Erich Ludendorff Metal Image Lapel Stick Pin Rare

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1925 Erich Ludendorff Metal Image Lapel Stick Pin Rare
1 1/4" X 1"
this pin was for the supporters of his campaign Spende is Donation in German
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff
(sometimes incorrectly referred to as
von Ludendorff
)
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(9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a
German
general, victor of
Liège
and of the
Battle of Tannenberg
. From August 1916, his appointment as
Quartermaster general
(
Erster Generalquartiermeister
) made him joint head (with
Paul von Hindenburg
), and chief engineer behind the management of
Germany's
effort in
World War I
until his resignation in October 1918.
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After the war, Ludendorff became a prominent nationalist leader, and a promoter of the
stab-in-the-back legend
, convinced that the
German Army
had been betrayed by
Marxists
and
Republicans
in the
Versailles Treaty
. He took part in the unsuccessful
coups d’état
of
Wolfgang Kapp
in 1920 and the
Beer Hall Putsch
of
Adolf Hitler
in 1923, and in 1925 he ran for
president
against his former colleague,
Paul von Hindenburg
, whom he claimed had taken credit for Ludendorff's victories against
Russia
.
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From 1924 to 1928 he represented the
German Völkisch Freedom Party
in the
German Parliament
. Consistently pursuing a purely military line of thought, Ludendorff developed, after the war, the theory of “
Total War
,” which he published as
Der Totale Krieg
(
The Total War
) in 1935, in which he argued that the entire physical and moral forces of the nation should be mobilized, because, according to him,
peace
was merely an interval between wars.
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Ludendorff was a recipient of the
Grand Cross of the Iron Cross
and the
Pour le Mérite
.
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