Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.

* 1935 – Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer

The main evidence of Liddell Hart's deceit and " tendentious " report of history can be found in his letters to the German Generals Erich von Manstein and Heinz Guderian, as well as relatives and associates of Erwin Rommel.

* Manstein, Erich von, and Anthony G. Powell.

Erich von Däniken and others who believe the Earth has been visited in the past by intelligent extraterrestrial beings have been excited, to a considerable degree, by Ezekiel's vision.

At the same time, the system's commercial regimentation and focus on glamorous escapism discouraged daring and ambition beyond a certain degree, a prime example being the brief but still legendary directing career of the iconoclastic Erich von Stroheim in the late teens and the ‘ 20s.

The following year in 1927, Wray was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures In 1928, director Erich von Stroheim cast Wray as the main female lead in his film The Wedding March, released under Paramount, a film noted for its high budget and production values.

* 1865 – Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist ( d. 1949 )

Lang epitomized the stereotype of the tyrannical German film director such as Erich von Stroheim and Otto Preminger ; he was known for being hard to work with.

The high command under Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff increasingly controlled the Reich as they gambled on one last offensive in spring 1918 ( before the Americans could arrive in force ).

Contributors included Erich Mühsam, Kurt Hiller, John Henry Mackay ( under the pseudonym Sagitta ) and artists Wilhelm von Gloeden, Fidus and Sascha Schneider.

* 1949 – Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist ( b. 1865 )

He reportedly kept the " von " name in homage to Erich von Stroheim and Josef von Sternberg, both of whom also added it later in life.

* 1899 – Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German Nazi official ( d. 1972 )

* 1957 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian director and actor ( b. 1885 )

In 1900, however, his work was " re-discovered " by three European scientists, Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns, and Erich von Tschermak.

* 1887 – Erich von Manstein, German military commander ( d. 1973 )

The writer Theodor Fontane, painter Adolf von Menzel, and Dadaist Kurt Schwitters were all guests ; Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacus Communist movement leader read a lot here and even made some key political speeches from the pavement terrace, while author Erich Kästner wrote part of his 1929 bestseller for children, Emil und die Detektive ( Emil and the Detectives ), on the same terrace and made the café the setting for an important scene in the book.

Legendary director Erich von Stroheim once called him " the world's greatest director.

David Lean also admitted he was deeply indebted to Ingram, and MGM studio chief Dore Schary once listed the top creative people in Hollywood as D. W. Griffith, Ingram, Cecil B. DeMille, and Erich von Stroheim ( in declining order of importance ).

Under the theories of Erich von Falkenhayn it is more distinguishable as purely attrition with a coincidental presence of fortifications on the battlefield.

* Field Marshal Erich von Manstein

* May 12 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian actor and director ( b. 1885 )

After the encirclement of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad, the 6. Panzer, now fully reformed, was sent to Ukraine to join Generaloberst Erich von Manstein's Army Group Don, currently struggling to halt the advancing Soviet forces.

General Erich von Manstein's bold plan for invading France through the Ardennes Forest proved successful, and ultimately led to the capture of France.

The German Operation Wintergewitter, led by Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's Army Group Don, made an attack on the Stalingrad Front in an effort to relieve the Sixth Army in Stalingrad.

However, it was quickly reformed and used by Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's Operation Winter Storm efforts to relieve General Friedrich Paulus ' trapped Sixth Army still in Stalingrad.

After the disaster at Stalingrad, III Panzerkorps took part in the battles around Kharkov as part of Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein's Heeresgruppe Don.

Together with the attached Army units, the 1st Panzer Army included over 200, 000 troops, and was the most powerful formation of Generalfeldmarshall Erich von Manstein's Army Group South.

Between 1940 and 1942 he served as the Chief of Operations to General ( later Field Marshal ) Erich von Manstein in the 11th Army on the Eastern Front.

The strategic objective was illustrated after the victories of Erich von Manstein and his 11th Army in the Crimea.

Over a month later, during the capture of Kiev, Generaloberst Erich von Manstein was given command of the German 11th Army on 17 September.

The German 11th Army, commanded by Erich von Manstein, besieged Sevastopol.

* 1918 – Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.

German General Erich Ludendorff later calls this the " black day of the German Army.

* June 29 – WWII: The German Eleventh Army under Erich von Manstein takes Sevastopol, although fighting rages until July 9.

During a National People's Army exercise in southern East Germany, 1960: Ivan Yakubovsky, Otto Grotewohl, Erich Honecker, Heinz Hoffmann

Through his courage and personal example he earned the respect of the troops and the senior Bulgarian and German commanders, even that of the Generalquartiermeister of the German Army Erich Ludendorff, who preferred dealing personally with Boris and described him as excellently trained, a thoroughly soldierly person and mature beyond his years.

General Erich von Falkenhayn, agitated by the additional losses in one sector of the Somme front, sacked the Chief of Staff of the Second Army and replaced him with Colonel Fritz von Lossberg, his operations officer.

During 1943 Tresckow tried without success to recruit senior Army field commanders such as Field Marshal Erich von Manstein and Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, to support a seizure of power.

On 14 May, German Army Group A burst through the Ardennes and advanced rapidly to the west toward Sedan, then turned northward to the English Channel, in what Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein called the " Sickle Cut " ( known as " Plan Yellow " or the Manstein Plan ), effectively flanking the Allied forces.

The 6. Panzer ended the campaign as a part of General Erich Höpner's Panzergruppe 4, acting as a reserve for Army Group Centre forces attempting to hold the line against fierce Soviet counterattacks.

" Hitler asserted the technique was used by Jews to unfairly blame Germany's loss in World War I on German Army officer Erich Ludendorff.

A relief effort by Army Group Don under Field Marshal Erich von Manstein failed in December.

Like his overall commander and cousin, General Erich Ludendorff, Hutier maintained that the German Army had not been defeated in the field, but was " stabbed in the back " by domestic enemies on the home front.

Portrait of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, commander of Army Group South at the time of the battle.

Erich von Falkenhayn later claimed that his tactics at Verdun were designed not to take the city, but rather to destroy the French Army in its defense.

The Germans employed large forces of Waffen-SS and regular troops, plus auxiliary forces made up of Soviet Army deserters, who acted particularly brutally, under the command of Erich von dem Bach.

* 26 September 1944-2 February 1945 -- Erich Koch ( b. 1896-d. 1986 ), NSDAP ( de facto ousted on 13 October 1944 when the Soviet Red Army took Riga, although Ostland wasn't officially dissolved until 2 February 1945 )

In this campaign Army Group South was led by Gerd von Rundstedt and his chief of staff Erich von Manstein.

In the same month, Franz Walter Stahlecker of Einsatzgruppe A wrote that Army Group North had been exemplary in co-operating with his men to murder Jews and that relations with the Fourth Panzer Army commanded by General Erich Hoepner were " very close, almost cordial ".

As the war went on and the losses of human life rose week by week, SPD members began to question the adherence to the Burgfrieden (" truce ") of 1914 ; also, from 1916, the guidelines of German policy was ' de facto ' set not by the Emperor and the Imperial Government but by the Supreme Army Command () under the generals Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff.

Consequently, parts of Army Group B were taken away from Weichs ' command and incorporated into a new Army Group Don, led by Erich von Manstein.

Richthofen provided direct and indirect support to the German Sixth Army, in particular, to Erich Hoepner's XVI Army Corps, part of the Sixth Army.