Helmuth von Pannwitz Military person
Helmuth von Pannwitz (14 October 1898 – 16 January 1947) was a German general who distinguished himself as a cavalry officer during the First and the Second World Wars. Later he became Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht and Supreme Ataman of the XV. Kosaken-Kavallerie-Korps. He was executed in Moscow for war crimes in 1947 of which he has been rehabilitated by the military prosecutor in Moscow in April 1996 almost fifty years after his violent death. The revocation of the conviction of Pannwitz was itself overturned in June 2001.
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| allegiance | Germany |
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| military command | XVth Cossack Cavalry Corps |
| service start | 1914 |
| service end | 1945 |