Manteuffel, Hasso, Freiherr von
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▪ German military strategist
born Jan. 14, 1897, Potsdam, Ger.
died Sept. 24, 1978, Tyrol, Austria
German military strategist whose skillful deployment of tanks repeatedly thwarted Allied offensives in World War II.
Manteuffel was the descendant of a Prussian family noted in politics and military affairs; his granduncle was the Prussian field marshal Edwin, Freiherr von Manteuffel (1809–85).
A major at the outbreak of World War II, he earned rapid promotion and commanded a division at Tunis in North Africa, where his counterattack almost cut communications behind the Allies' front. In the Ukraine his 7th Panzer Division in November 1943 stemmed a victorious Soviet offensive, and in May 1944 his mobile defense checked Marshal I.S. Koniev's drive into Romania. He also commanded the 5th Panzer Army during the desperate and crucial Battle of the Bulge that took place in Belgium in December 1944. In that action Manteuffel almost succeeded in breaching the Allied front.
After the war, Manteuffel sat in the Bundestag (1953–57) as a Free Democrat, but in 1959 his military past was revived. A court sentenced him to 18 months in prison for ordering a 19-year-old shot for desertion in 1944. After serving four months, Manteuffel was released.
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