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Julius Jacob von Haynau
Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786–1853) was an Austrian general, nicknamed the Hyena of Brescia, who crushed the Hungarian Revolution and ordered the 1849 Arad executions.
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg was an Austrian field marshal who commanded the allied armies against Napoleon at Leipzig in 1813 and captured Paris in 1814.
Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin
Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (1684-1757), Prussian Generalfeldmarschall under Frederick the Great; Dutch and Mecklenburg service, victor of Mollwitz 1741, fell at the Battle of Prague 6 May 1757.
Kurt von Schleicher
Kurt von Schleicher (1882-1934), German general and last Weimar chancellor (3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933), Reichswehr political operator behind presidential cabinets, murdered by the SS on 30 June 1934.
Kurt Zeitzler
Kurt Zeitzler (1895–1963), German Generaloberst; Chief of the Army General Staff (OKH) September 1942 to July 1944, succeeding Halder; panzer staff officer under Kleist; urged Stalingrad breakout, championed Kursk, broke with Hitler in 1944.
Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau
Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau, the "Old Dessauer" (der alte Dessauer), 1676–1747, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and Prussian Generalfeldmarschall; reformed the Prussian infantry with the iron ramrod and cadenced step, won Kesselsdorf 1745.
Leopold Joseph von Daun
Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705–1766) was an Austrian field marshal and president of the Hofkriegsrat, best known for repeatedly defeating Frederick II of Prussia in the Seven Years' War.
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (Ludwig Wilhelm, called Türkenlouis, "Turkish Louis"), ruled Baden-Baden from 1677 and won his greatest triumph over the Ottomans at Slankamen in 1691.
Ludwig Beck
Ludwig August Theodor Beck (1880–1944), German colonel general and chief of the Army General Staff 1935–1938, resigned over Hitler's Czechoslovakia war plans, led the military resistance with Goerdeler, and died after the failed 20 July 1944 coup.
Ludwig von Benedek
Ludwig August Ritter von Benedek (1804–1881) was an Austrian general of Hungarian descent, regarded before 1866 as the Habsburg monarchy's most trusted soldier and defeated at Königgrätz.
Max Hoffmann
Max Hoffmann (Carl Adolf Maximilian Hoffmann, 1869–1927), Prussian general; planned Tannenberg (1914), chief of staff of the German Eastern Front from 1916, and German military lead negotiator at Brest-Litovsk; later advocated the anti-Soviet Hoffmannplan.
Maximilian Ulysses Browne
Maximilian Ulysses Browne was an Austrian field marshal of Irish descent who commanded Habsburg forces against Frederick the Great and died of wounds from the 1757 Battle of Prague.
Michael Wittmann
Michael Wittmann (1914–1944) was a German Waffen-SS tank commander famous for his Tiger attack on a British column at Villers-Bocage in Normandy in June 1944.
Miklós Pálffy
Miklós Pálffy (1552–1600) was a Hungarian nobleman and general in Habsburg service, remembered as the "hero of Győr" for recapturing the fortress from the Ottomans in 1598.
Niklas Graf Salm
Niklas Graf Salm (1459–1530) was a Lower Austrian nobleman and soldier who, as supreme field commander of Archduke Ferdinand I, directed Vienna's defense against the Ottoman siege of 1529.
Oskar Dirlewanger
Oskar Dirlewanger (1895-1945) was a German SS-Oberführer who commanded the SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger, a penal unit of convicted poachers and criminals that massacred civilians in Belarus and Warsaw's Wola district in 1944. He died in French custody at Altshausen in June 1945.
Oskar Potiorek
Oskar Potiorek (1853–1933), Austro-Hungarian Feldzeugmeister, deputy chief of the General Staff and governor of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1911; survived the Sarajevo assassination he was meant to protect against, then commanded the failed 1914 Serbian invasions and was dismissed in December 1914.
Paul Hausser
Paul Hausser (1880–1972), German Reichswehr generalleutnant turned SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer, built Waffen-SS officer training, led Das Reich and II SS Panzer Corps, and later championed Waffen-SS rehabilitation through HIAG.
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881–1954), German Generalfeldmarschall, led Panzergruppe Kleist at Sedan in 1940 and 1st Panzer Army and Army Group A on the Eastern Front; dismissed by Hitler in 1944, he died in Soviet captivity.
Paul von Schoenaich
Paul von Schoenaich (1866–1954) was a Prussian cavalry general who became a pacifist, leading the German Peace Society from 1929 to 1933 and again from 1946 to 1951.
Prince Eugene of Savoy
Prince Eugene of Savoy (François-Eugène de Savoie, 1663–1736), Habsburg general, diplomat, and president of the Imperial War Council, victor of Blenheim with Marlborough and Belgrade, and patron behind Vienna's Belvedere.
Raimondo Montecuccoli
Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609-1680) was an Italian general and military writer in the service of the Holy Roman Empire, victor over the Ottoman Turks at Sankt Gotthard in 1664.
Sepp Dietrich
Sepp Dietrich (Josef Dietrich, 1892-1966), Hitler's favorite Waffen-SS commander, led the Leibstandarte, I SS Panzer Corps, and 6th SS Panzer Army; convicted in the Malmedy massacre trial, paroled 1955, later HIAG board member.
Svetozar Boroević
Svetozar Boroević, also Svetozar Borojević (1856–1920), was an Austro-Hungarian field marshal from Croatia who held the Isonzo front against Italian offensives from 1915 to 1917.
Theodor Busse
Theodor Busse (1897–1986), German general of infantry; chief of staff of Army Group South under Manstein, commander of the Ninth Army at Seelow Heights and the Halbe breakout, later West German civil defense leader.
Theodor Eicke
Theodor Eicke (1892–1943) was an SS-Obergruppenführer, Dachau commandant, and Inspector of Concentration Camps who created the Nazi camp model, and commander of the SS Division Totenkopf until his death at Kharkov.
Walter Leslie
Walter Leslie, Count Leslie (1606–1667), was a Scottish soldier of fortune who helped assassinate General Wallenstein at Eger in 1634 and rose to Habsburg field marshal.
Walter Model
Walter Model (1891–1945), German Generalfeldmarschall, Hitler's defensive specialist on the Eastern and Western Fronts; Rzhev, Kursk, Ardennes; committed Nazi, suicide in the Ruhr pocket.
Walter von Reichenau
Walter von Reichenau (1884–1942), German field marshal and early Nazi supporter; commanded 10th and 6th Armies and Army Group South; issued the 10 October 1941 Severity Order calling for annihilation of the "Jewish-Bolshevik system"; died of a stroke in January 1942.
Walther von Brauchitsch
Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948), German Generalfeldmarschall, commanded the Heer from February 1938 to 19 December 1941, led the Poland, France, Balkans, and USSR campaigns, was dismissed by Hitler after the Moscow failure, and died in British custody.