Schlieffen Plan Schlieffen Plan The Schlieffen Plan (, ) was the name given, after the First World War, to German war plans and the influence of Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen and his thinking on the invasion of France and Belgium on 4 August 1914. Schlieffen was Chief of the General Staff of the German Army from 1891 to 1906. In 1905 and 1906, Schlieffen devised an army deployment plan for a war-winning offensive against the French Third Republic. After losing the First World War, German official historians of the and other writers described the plan as a blueprint for victory. (Colonel-General)
Germans in Azerbaijan to Yelizavetpol (currently name,Ganja), built two colonies near Shamkhor: Helenendorf (currently name, Khanlar region) and Annenfeld (currently name, Shamkir). The settlement was based on the plan. One of the colonies, Annenfeld German colony, remained in the province of Yelizavetpol until 1917. On August 22, 1819, the first German colony of Helenendorf was founded in Azerbaijan. The moving of the Germans to the Caucasus began in 1817 with the agreement of the Russian Tsar. Helenendorf was founded by the people coming from Württemberg. Then several German settlements were built in the area. In 1938, the settlement was named Khanlar, and in