Arndt Tammitz

Arndt Tammitz (* 13. July 1916; † - - -) was a german soldier.

Life
Tammitz was born in Potsdam in 1916. He grew up in harsh conditions, through his mother was a prostitute and his father was a heavy drinker. He soon appropriated his fathers properties, and cancelled his school. He was a well known drunkard in his town. He often disregarded the law and also developed a heavy Opium addiction. He got through the daily life by writing poems and also columns for an underground - antifascist Magazin, through he never got caught by the regime. in 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was send to Russia. He served as an Infantryman.