Eberhard von Mackensen
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Friedrich August Eberhard von Mackensen （24 September 1889 – 19 May 1969） was a German general and war criminal during World War II who served as commander of the 1st Panzer Army and the 14th Army.
Following the war, Mackensen stood trial for war crimes before a British military tribunal in Italy where he was convicted and sentenced to death.
The sentence was later commuted and Mackensen was released in 1952.
He died in West Germany in 1969.
Eberhard was born on 24 September 1889, in Bromberg, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, the fourth of five children to Field Marshal August von Mackensen and his wife Dorothea （née von Horn）.
Mackensen joined the Imperial German Army in 1908, where he became a Fahnenjunker （officer candidate） of the XVII Corps stationed in Danzig, and was promoted to lieutenant on 22 March 1910.
At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Mackensen served as a regimental adjutant in the 1st Hussar Regiment.
On 25 February 1915, he was promoted to first lieutenant, but after a severe wound on 23 August 1915, Mackensen was transferred to a staff job in the General Staff of the Army Group Scholtz.
On 20 May 1917, he was promoted to captain.
Following the armistice in 1918 ending the war, Mackensen remained in the army （now the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic） where he served as chief of the 1st squadron of the 5th （Prussian） Rider Regiment in Belgard,
but in 1919 also joined the right-wing Freikorps paramilitary group and fought in the Baltic states.
In 1925, Mackensen commanded the ar...