Biography
Hutier was born in Erfurt, in the Prussian Province of Saxony. He spent the first year of the war as a divisional commander in France, performing well but not distinguishing himself until the spring of 1915, when he was transferred to the Eastern Front. There he became a corps commander attached to the German Tenth Army, and helped that force conquer large parts of Russian-ruled Poland and Lithuania during the next two years.
Rising to army command early in 1917, Hutier began to apply the lessons learned from his three years of commanding troops, as well as his study of tactics of other armies. He devised a new strategy for the Germans to break the stalemate of trench warfare. His tactics were so successful in 1917 and 1918 that the French named them "Hutier tactics", although today they are called "infiltration tactics".
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