Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.