German sturmbannführer, in the waffen ss during world war ii.
Died June 9th, 1944 at 34 years old in France (ballistic trauma).
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel