Did the german high command prior to WW1 ever consider trying to knock out Russia first instead of going for France as per the Schlieffen-Plan?

by Dios5
DuxBelisarius

They did; while the so-called Schlieffen Plan was a memorandum put out by Schlieffen in 1905-06, the key tenets of that memorandum were distilled into deployment plans Aufmarsch West and Aufmarsch Ost. The former represented a deployment against France, the latter against Russia. There were two versions of each deployment, one involving a single front conflict, one involving a toe front conflict. Both plans were updated regularly until 1913, when Moltke established the two front variant of Aufmarsch West as the sole deployment plan for a war against the so-called 'triple entente'.