Edgar Feuchtinger

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Edgar Feuchtinger
Generalleutnant Edgar Feuchtinger in 1944
Born	(1894-11-09)9 November 1894 Metz, Alsace-Lorraine
Died	21 January 1960(1960-01-21) (aged 65) Berlin, Germany
Allegiance	German Empire (to 1918)  Weimar Republic (to 1933)  Nazi Germany (to 1945)
Service / branch	Army
Years of service	1914–45
Rank	Generalleutnant
Commands	21st Panzer Division
Battles / wars	World War I Battle of Verdun Battle of the Somme Second Battle of the Aisne World War II Operation Barbarossa Case Anton D-Day Falaise pocket
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Deutsches Kreuz in Silver

Edgar Feuchtinger (9 November 1894 – 21 January 1960) was a German General (Generalleutnant) during the Second World War. Feuchtinger was commander of the 21st Panzer Division during the Normandy Invasion. Later in 1944 he was tried and convicted of treason by the Reich court, demoted and sentenced to execution. The sentence was commuted by the intervention of Adolf Hitler. Feuchtinger did not report to his next assignment, and avoided the German military police until he could surrender to the Allies.

Later in life, while a private citizen, Feuchtinger was pressured by the KGB into finding and disclosing secret information on the West German military and transferring this information to the Soviet Union.^[1]

In 2008 his conviction by the Reich court in 1944 came up during a German national discussion on the review of war veterans convicted by the Nazi government of treason. His earlier conviction was not overturned.^[2]