Erich von Ludendorff (1865-1937) German General. Ludendorff served as head of the deployment section during WW I. A highly militaristic man, Ludendorff held that peace was merely the interval between wars, and that the nation's chief duty was to provide the means with which to conduct war. In the pre-war period he assisted with the fine-tuning of the invasion strategy for France, the Schlieffen Plan. 9†x 6 ¼†black and white photograph with eight others, including Hitler, signed.