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- Mortimer von Kessel (25 May 1893 – 8 January 1981) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.
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Mortimer von Kessel (25 May 1893 – 8 January 1981) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Biography. Kessel joined the Imperial German Army in August 1914 and was then retained in the Reichswehr following World War I.
Guido Ernst Alfred Constantin Mortimer von Kessel war ein deutscher Offizier, zuletzt General der Panzertruppe im Zweiten Weltkrieg.
Biography. Mortimer von Kessel was born on May 25th, 1893 as the son to Konstantin von Kessel and Julie Freijn von Buddenbrock. On March 17th, 1928 he married Dorothee von Kessel.
Mortimer von Kessel was a Panzer General in the German army during the Second World War. He joined the Imperial German Army as an officer cadet in 1914 and was commissioned as a leutnant in the 12th Hussar Regiment on 22 March 1915 and was awarded the Iron Cross first and second class in the First World War.
Mortimer von Kessel (25 May 1893 – 8 January 1981) was a Panzer General in the German army during the Second World War. He joined the Imperial German Army as an officer cadet in 1914 and was commissioned as a leutnant in the 12th Hussar Regiment on 22 March 1915 and was awarded the Iron Cross...
To the north and east of Bobruisk, the Soviet 3rd Army under Colonel General Gorbatov ran into strong German defenses, reinforced by Generalleutnant Mortimer von Kessel’s 20th Panzer Division, Jordan’s mobile reserve.
Mortimer von Kessel war der Sohn des Hauptmann a.D. und Postdirektors Konstantin von Kessel und dessen Ehefrau Julie, geborene Freiin von Buddenbrock. Er trat bei Beginn des 1. Weltkrieges am 1. August 1914 als Fahnenjunker in die Königlich Preußische Armee ein. Er kam dabei zum Ersatztruppenteil vom Thüringisches Husaren-Regiment Nr. 12.
