Fritz Erich George Eduard Von Manstein
Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein (von Lewinski)(November 24, 1887, Berlin, German Empire – June 10, 1973, Irschenhausen, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district, Bavaria, West Germany) was a German military leader and German military theorist, Field Marshal (1942). He had a reputation as the most gifted strategist in the Wehrmacht and was the informal leader of the German generals. Nephew of Field Marshal Hindenburg