Erwin Rommel was Germany’s Patton. Both shared a dislike for politics.
Both Officers were Career Military and great statisticians and theorists. Both Patton and Rommel fought in WW1 and WW2.
The Germans SHOULD be proud of Rommel. He invented tank warfare as we still know it today. One of my best friends on earth was a tank platoon commander in Desert Storm.
He told me that Rommel was the father of all of it, and that for the purely tank part of it, little has changed. Patton added coordinated air support.
When tanks got super fast in comparison, tactics changed too, but not far afield from what Rommel had first conceived.
I think you meant tacticians, not statisticians.