Mortimer von Kessel (25 May 1893 – 8 January 1981) was a Panzer General in the German army during the Second World War.He joined the Imperial German Army as an officer cadet in 1914 and was commissioned as a leutnant in the 12th Hussar Regiment on 22 March 1915 and was awarded the Iron Cross first and second class in the First World War.