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- Birth nameAnton Ludwig August Mackensen
- August von Mackensen was born on December 6, 1849 in Haus Leipnitz, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia [now Saxony, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Totenkopfreiter (1917), Hearst-Selig News Pictorial, No. 28 (1915) and Pathé News, No. 100 (1916). He died on November 8, 1945 in Habighorst [now Lower Saxony], Germany.
- He was a top German field commander during World War I.
- Mackensen and Erich Ludendorff were the principal former senior officers of the old Imperial German army to actively support Hitler's Nazi Party.
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