August Graf von Kageneck (1922–2004) was a German tank commander in the armored forces, writer and a journalist.
He served in the German Wehrmacht in World War II as a tank commander, before being wounded in 1942 and evacuated back to Germany.
His father had commanded a brigade of cuirassiers during the First World War, had previously been a military attaché to Vienna and aide-de-camp to Emperor Wilhelm II.
In December 1944, he was finally assigned to the Western Front and finished serving in the war, fighting against the Americans, in the heart of the Harz, in the ranks of the reconnaissance battalion of the famous Panzerlehr-Division.
For 16 years, he went on to be the correspondent in France for the national German daily Die Welt as well as for Germany's official television stations.