Help needed: GIGANTIC German / Prussian medal. Identity of portrait?

Dentuck

I bought this in an antique shop in Griffin, Georgia, weekend before last.

Any clue to the identity of the officer portrayed? (See below for a closeup
of his signature.)

STLNATS

The portrait looks like August von Mackensen but I can't quite get the letters to work out.

Here's the wiki-link:

linky

spoon

Yep, he's right - it's Mackensen. The loopy thing is the K and the F looking thing is an S. Here's something with his John Hancock from a German autograph dealer's site:

MacCrimmon

Ja, das ist Herr Generalfeldmarschall August von Mackensen.


Check halfway down the page

Preussen

Looks like him; very cool.

Here is a quick shot of another medal of him. -Preussen

Dentuck

Thank you all for confirming that!

A very distinctive face on the old general. I think in my postcard collection I have some photographs of him at the funerals of Kaiserin Augusta Victoria (in 1921) and Kaiser Wilhelm II (in 1941).