August von Kageneck

August Graf von Kageneck (1922–2004) was a German tank commander in the armored forces, writer and a journalist. He served in the German Wehrmacht in World War II as a tank commander, before being wounded in 1942 and evacuated back to Germany. His life included time as a tank commander during WWII in the Eastern Front. After the war he became a journalist and author of several books. He was instrumental in the postwar reconciliation between France and Germany. Early life August von Kageneck was born in the Rhineland, Germany on 31 August 1922; and was the fifth son born into an aristocratic family living midway between Treves and Koblenz on the banks of the Moselle. His father had commanded a brigade of cuirassiers during the First World War, had previously been a military attaché to Vienna and aide-de-camp to Emperor Wilhelm II. August spent his childhood in Wittlich, the site of a French garrison, until 1930.