August von Mackensen
August von Mackensen (1849 - 1945), German Field Marshal, born in Haus Leipnitz, Saxony, to Louis and Marie Louise Mackensen, manager of domains.
He began his military service in 1869 as a volunteer with the 2nd Life Hussars regiment. During the Franco-Prussian War he was promoted to second lieutenant and recommended for the Iron Cross, Second Class. After an interlude at Halle University, Mackensen formally entered the German Army in 1873, with his old regiment. In 1876 he was promoted to first lieutenant and appointed the General Staff, despite never attending the War Academy.
In 1901 he was promoted to General à la suite of His Majesty. Shortly after the start of the First World War he took over the command of the 9th Army(Lodz) and became the owner of the k.u.k. Austrian-Hungarian Husaren-Regiment No. 10, on June 11th 1915. After his promotion to general field marshal he held command of the occupation army in Rumania, at the end of the First World War. In 1920, after the end of the war, he retired from active duty.
He died on November 8th 1945 after the Second World War, at the age of 96.
I. Staff service 1880's
II. Ennoblement in 1890's
III. WWI
In May 1915, von Mackensen commmanded the successful German offensive directed at Gorlice-Tarnow, in which the Germans advanced 95 miles in two weeks
IV. Interwar years
V. The Third Reich
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