Edgar Feuchtinger

Who was Edgar Feuchtinger?

Edgar Feuchtinger was a German General 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 German military and transferring this information to the Soviet Union.

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.