Ludendorff: The Tragedy of a Military Mind
About this ebook
It is believed that both Hindenburg and Ludendorff realized as early as 8 August 1918 that victory was not possible; however, neither could conceive of accepting defeat. Therefore, in late September 1918, a carefully planned ‘revolution from above’ resulted in the High Command being placed under government control which gave Hindenburg and Ludendorff the opportunity to shift the responsibility of seeking an armistice and military defeat from the High Command to the civilian government and the Reichstag.
First published in its English translation in 1932, this book by Austrian writer and journalist Karl Tschuppik is an analysis of Erich Ludendorff. The author demonstrates the power the High Command had over the Chancellor and Kaiser, and the book provides a useful in understanding the High Command’s power and for obtaining quotations regarding the High Command’s power.
About the author
KARL TSCHUPPIK (26 June 1876 - 22 July 1937) was an Austrian journalist, feuilleton, publicist and writer.
He was born in Horowitz or Melnik, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (today Czech Republic). Following his high school graduation, he studied technical sciences at the Technical Universities of Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) and Vienna (Technical University of Vienna).
He worked for newspapers such as the Prague Tagblatt from 1898 to 1917 as an editor and editor, and published stories in numerous newspapers and magazines in Vienna and Berlin, mostly attributable to the left-wing intellectual spectrum. He was one of the most important Austrian publicists before 1938. His publications have received great acclaim and he is widely regarded amongst important contemporary Austrian journalists and journalists such as Max Brod, Joseph Roth and Friedrich Funder.
Tschuppik rejected national socialism, German nationalism as well as Austro-Fascism, and he was a frequent target for national-socialist propaganda among other publicists; his work described as “harmful and undesirable literature”, his name appeared on the first “Black List” published in 1933.
His other biographies include Francis Joseph I: The Downfall of an Empire (1930) and Ludendorff: The Tragedy of a Military Mind (1932). He published one novel, Ein Sohn aus gutem Hause (A Son from a Good Home) in 1937, which was made into a film by the same name in 1989 by Austrian film director Karin Brandauer.
Tschuppik died in Vienna in 1937 at the age of 61.
