Willibald Borowietz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Willibald Borowietz

German General and Knight's Cross recipient

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1893

Place of Birth: Racibórz, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 01-Jul-1945

Profession: military personnel, non-fiction writer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Willibald Borowietz (17 September 1893 – 1 July 1945) was a German general during World War II who commanded several divisions.
He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Borowietz surrendered to Allied forces together with the Afrika Korps.
He was held as a POW by the United States in Camp Clinton, Mississippi, where he committed suicide by electrocuting himself in a bathtub on 1 July 1945.
Officially his death was attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage.His wife, Eva Ledien, was of Jewish descent.
She committed suicide in October 1938 so that their children could be Aryanized.
Eva's sister, Käthe (Ledien) Bosse, was killed in Ravensbrück concentration camp on 16 December 1944.