Helmuth von Pannwitz

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Helmuth von Pannwitz was a German general best known for commanding Cossack units in the Wehrmacht during World War II and for his subsequent execution for war crimes.

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Label Occurrences
Helmuth von Pannwitz canonical 1

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf German general
human
allegiance German Empire
Nazi Germany
awardReceived Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 1st Class NERFINISHED
Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class NERFINISHED
Iron Cross (1914) 1st Class NERFINISHED
Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class NERFINISHED
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath execution by hanging
conflict World War I
World War II
convictedOf war crimes
countryOfCitizenship German Empire NERFINISHED
Germany
dateOfBirth 1898-10-14
dateOfDeath 1947-01-16
ethnicGroup German
familyName von Pannwitz NERFINISHED
givenName Helmuth NERFINISHED
mannerOfDeath capital punishment
memberOf Cossack units of the Wehrmacht NERFINISHED
German Army (Wehrmacht) NERFINISHED
militaryBranch Imperial German Army NERFINISHED
Reichswehr NERFINISHED
Wehrmacht
militaryRank Generalleutnant NERFINISHED
notableFor being executed in the Soviet Union for war crimes after World War II
commanding Cossack units in the Wehrmacht during World War II
notableWork command of Cossack units in the Wehrmacht
occupation military officer
participatedIn anti-partisan operations on the Eastern Front
placeOfBirth Botzanow, Province of Posen NERFINISHED
German Empire
placeOfDeath Moscow
Soviet Union
positionHeld commander of the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division
commander of the XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps
sexOrGender male
triedBy Soviet military tribunal NERFINISHED

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Helmuth von Pannwitz
Description of subject: Helmuth von Pannwitz was a German general best known for commanding Cossack units in the Wehrmacht during World War II and for his subsequent execution for war crimes.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Helmuth hasNotableBearer Helmuth von Pannwitz