Helmuth von Pannwitz

Helmuth von Pannwitz 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 SS Cossack Cavalry Corps. 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 death. The revocation of the conviction of Pannwitz was itself overturned in June 2001.

Pannwitz was born into a family of Prussian nobility on his fathers estate Botzanowitz , Silesia, near Rosenberg , now part of Poland but directly on the GermanRussian border of that time. His family was originally from the village of Pannwitz in Lusatia. From the 14th to 16th century the family held the office of Burggraf of Glatz.

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