Erich Ludendorff

Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff, or simply Erich Ludendorff, is one of 'Die Drei Generäle' of the German Free State. Formerly, Ludendorff was a general who led the Imperial German Army during the Great War, and later became one of the de facto government leaders toward the end of the war. Following the Spartacist Revolution of 1920, Ludendorff and others fled to East Prussia and was granted protection by Poland, establishing the Freistaat.

Ludendorff believes that the Freistaat may only suffice if it reaches the same extremes as the German Socialist Republic. Believing democracy to be ineffective and monarchism dangerous for stability, Ludendorff suggested copying a similar model to that of Benito Mussolini's Italy, in order to mobilise the nation swiftly into a military state, thereby having the power to fight back Spartacism when war comes to be. The other two of the triumvirate, namely Paul von Hindenburg and Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, disapproved of this idea, believing that incorporating Fascism would turn the Freistaat into a fanatical state, and would be counterproductive in winning Allied support for the war.