Count Gottlieb Ferdinand Albert Alexis von Haeseler (January 19 1836 in Potsdam - October 25 1919 in Harnekop ), was a German military officer of the Imperial Wilhelmine period, with final rank of Generalfeldmarschall.
Haeseler, whose parents were August Alexis Eduard Haeseler and Albertine von Schönermark, entered the Prussian army as Lieutenant in 1853 and became aide-de-camp of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia in 1860. He served in the wars of 1864 and 1866 and in the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. From 1879 he headed the military history department of the general staff, and from 1890 to 1903 he was General of the Cavalry and head of the 16th Army Corps in Metz. In 1905 he received the rank of a General Field Marshall. From 1903 he was member of the Prussian Herrenhaus and worked for the development of the vocational school system.
Among other things, the barracks of the paratrooper battalion No. 261 in Lebach/Saar are named after Haeseler.