✦ History

Part of World War I

Battle of Tannenberg

August 26–30, 1914 · Tannenberg, East Prussia

Result German victory

German victory over the Russian Second Army in East Prussia in the first month of the First World War. The Russian army was encircled and largely destroyed, and its commander, Alexander Samsonov, took his own life.

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Russian Empire
German Empire
Alexander Samsonov military commander Yakov Zhilinskiy military commander
Paul von Hindenburg Took command of the Eighth Army with Ludendorff; encircled the Russian Second Army Erich Ludendorff Hindenburg's chief of staff; planned the encirclement Max Hoffmann military commander Hermann von François military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
123,000–180,000
Casualties
70,000–120,219
Strength
150,000
Wounded
7,461
Missing
4,686

Units

1st Army (Russian Empire) Paul von Rennenkampf 2nd Army (Russian Empire) 13th Army Corps (Russian Empire) 15th Army Corps (Russian Empire) 1st Army Corps (Russian Empire) 20th Army Corps (Russian Empire) 23rd Army Corps (Russian Empire) 2nd Army Corps (Russian Empire)
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3rd Army Corps (Russian Empire) 4th Army Corps (Russian Empire) 6th Army Corps (Russian Empire) 2nd Infantry Division (Russian Empire) 226th Zemlyansky Infantry Regiment
8th Army (German Empire) Maximilian von Prittwitz Paul von Hindenburg 1914 I Reserve Corps (German Empire) XVII Corps (German Empire) XX Corps (German Empire) 1st Cavalry Division (German Empire) 2nd Division (German Empire) 35th Division (German Empire) 36th Division (German Empire)
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37th Division (German Empire) 41st Division (German Empire)
I Corps (German Empire) 1st Division (German Empire)

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