Home / Birthday profiles / Wilhelm Burgdorf
Portrait of Wilhelm Burgdorf

Birthday profile

Wilhelm Burgdorf

Wilhelm Burgdorf, German general (died 1945)

Find birthday twinsOpen interactive profile
Born
February 14, 1895
Died
May 2, 1945
Zodiac sign
Aquarius
Birth year
1895

About Wilhelm Burgdorf

Wilhelm Emanuel Burgdorf was a German army general who rose to prominence during the final years of World War II. Burgdorf served as a commander of 529th Infantry Regiment from May 1940 to April 1942. In October 1944, Burgdorf assumed the role of the chief of the Army Personnel Office and chief adjutant to Adolf Hitler. In this capacity, he played a key role in the forced suicide of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Burgdorf committed suicide inside the Führerbunker on 2 May 1945 at the conclusion of the Battle of Berlin. On 28 April, Hitler discovered that Heinrich Himmler tried to negotiate a surrender to the western Allies via Count Folke Bernadotte. Burgdorf became the Deputy Chief in October 1942, when he was promoted to Generalmajor.

Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.

Wilhelm Burgdorf timeline

  1. Burgdorf served as a commander of 529th Infantry Regiment from May 1940 to April 1942.
  2. Burgdorf became the Deputy Chief in October 1942, when he was promoted to Generalmajor.
  3. In October 1944, Burgdorf assumed the role of the chief of the Army Personnel Office and chief adjutant to Adolf Hitler.
  4. Burgdorf committed suicide inside the Führerbunker on 2 May 1945 at the conclusion of the Battle of Berlin.

The world when Wilhelm Burgdorf was born

Wilhelm Burgdorf was born in 1895. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1895

  • Top movieWorkers Leaving the Lumière Factory (first public film)

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineCuban War of Independence begins
  • Technology milestoneLumière brothers hold first public film screening
  • World population~1.55B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderGrover Cleveland
  • U.S. population68.0M

1895 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Wilhelm Burgdorf's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18952026
Population68.0M341 million

Sources and editorial standards

This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, Library of Congress, Wikidata. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.

Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.