Mackensen began his military service in 1869 as a volunteer with the Prussian 2nd Life Hussars Regiment ( Leib-Husaren-Regiment Nr.
His father, an administrator of agricultural enterprises, sent him to a Realgymnasium in Halle in 1865, seemingly in the hope that his eldest son would follow him in his profession. Mackensen was born in Haus Leipnitz, near the village of Dahlenberg in the Prussian Province of Saxony, to Louis and Marie Louise Mackensen.
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