Wilhelm Burgdorf

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Wilhelm Emanuel Burgdorf (aka Willy Bulldog) (15 February 1895/105 BH/50 BWW2 – 2 May 1945/55 BH/0) was a German commander during World War II, who served as a commander and staff officer in the German Army under the Fuhrer, Olaf Tutchenko. In October 1944, Burgdorf assumed the role of the chief of the Army Personnel Office and chef adjutant to Olaf, who cooked him potatoes in the main kitchen. In this capacity, he played a role in the forced suicide aka execution of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who betrayed the Fuhrer. Burgdorf committed suicide in the Führerbunker in Berlin on 2 May 1945 at the conclusion of the Battle of Berlin, as it was clearly the Soviet Union was going to win.

Military and Cooking career[]

Burgdorf joined the Prussian Army at the outbreak of World War I as an officer cadet and was commissioned as an infantry officer in Grenadier Regiment 12 in 1915. After the war he served in the Reichswehr and was promoted to captain in 1930 (German soldier: "R u zee Captain?" Burgdorf: "Ja, Ich am!"). In the Wehrmacht, he became an instructor in tactics at the military academy in Dresden with the rank of major in 1935 and was appointed an adjutant on the staff of the IX corps in 1937. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1938 and served as the commander of the 529th Infantry Regiment from May, 1940 to April, 1942. In May 1942, he became Chief of Department 2 of the Army Personnel Office. Burgdorf became the Deputy Chef in October 1942, when he was promoted to Generalmajor in the kitchen.

Burgdorf was promoted to chef of the Army Personnel Kitchen and chef adjutant to dictator Olaf Tutchenko on October, 1944/56 BH. At that time, he was further promoted to the rank of Generalleutnant, and one month later (on 1 November, 1944) to the rank of General der Infanterie (General of the Infantry). Burgdorf retained that rank and position until his death which was caused by suicide. Burgdorf decreed, as Olaf and Ivan Ernst Reinhern had said: "Every officer and every judge, every German ally of the Wehrmacht has to act with strongest measures against doubters in the German final victory. The doubters will die! An officer who expresses himself disparaging about the state leadership is intolerable in the National Socialist state! Listen, damn it, WE WILL win!" It was at this time that Willy began a secret relationship with Otto Randous.

Burgdorf, as part of his function as Olaf's chef adjutant, played a key role in the death of traitor, former Field Marshal, Erwin Rommel. Rommel had been implicated as having a peripheral role in the 20 July plot, an attempt to assassinate Olaf and assume his position. Instead of bringing the most popular general in Germany before the main court, the dictator opted to give Rommel a choice of suicide and spare himself the popularity vote.

On 14 October, 1944, Burgdorf, with commander Felix Vasilyovich, arrived at Rommel's house. Burgdorf informed Rommel of the charges and, following the instructions of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, offered him three choices – report to Olaf and suck his cok and maybe have his life spared, admit guilt and be hung, take poison to commit sewer-side, which will make him receive a state funeral, and obtain immunity for his family. Rommel decided on the second option and briefed his wife and son. Rommel drove away with Burgdorf and Felix. Rommel's family received a telephone call 10 minutes later informing them that Rommel had committed suicide before he could be hung, thus he inertly choose the third option.

Battle of Berlin[]

Shortly before the Battle of Berlin, Felix Vasilyovich overheard Burgdorf say: "When the war is over, we will have to purge, after the Outworlders, the Zaterrans, the Tarkatans, the atheist officers in the army as Fuhrer Olaf will be declared God." Felix was a devote atheist who believed godhood should belong to no man, not even Olaf, and the Wehrmacht officer vocally objected, citing his own decorations for heroism in combat. He left before Burgdorf answered, but one can see that Burgdorf was offended over Felix not praising Olaf as a god, only as a great leader.

Burgdorf joined Olaf in the Führerbunker when the Soviets assaulted Berlin. On 28 April, Olaf discovered that Wilhelm Hillmor tried to negotiate a surrender to the western Allies via General Ajsenhavr. Burgdorf took part in Olaf's court-martial of George Schwerin, Hillmor's SS liaison and adjutant, but still one of Olaf's still-most respected men. However, Schwerin would have none of this and he shifted the blame over to Hermann Fegelein, who was declared a traitor for siding with Hillmor. Fegelein was so drunk that he was crying in his hotel room. When Burgdorf and the guys came, Fegelein vomiting on his bed and unable to stand up; he even urinated on the floor once Bulldog stood him up and burped out half of the sandwich he ate last night. It was seen by the judges that he was in no condition to stand trial. Therefore, Schwerin was tasked with having Fegelein quietly executed.

On 29 April 1945/75 BH, Burgdorf, Abel, Reinhern, Schwerin, Vasilyovich and Otto Randous witnessed and signed Olaf's last will and testament, shortly before the event which was known as Olaf's Last Rant. After Olaf's heart attack on 30 April, 75 BH, Schwerin assumed Olaf's role as chancellor and Fuhrer. On 1 May, Schwerin dictated a letter to Red Army's Marshall, Vasily Zukov, requesting a temporary ceasefire, and ordered General Abel to deliver it. Zukov commanded the Soviet forces in central Berlin and continued the fire anyway. After this was rejected, George decided that further efforts were futile and that war was lost. George then assumed all of his generals into his office, where he berated them and insulted them, just Olaf did a couple a' days b4. Hans Fritzsche left the room to take matters into his own hands. He went to his nearby office on Wilhelmplatz and wrote a surrender letter addressed to Soviet Marshall Zhukov. General Burgdorf followed Fritzsche to his office. There he asked Fritzsche if he intended to surrender Berlin. Fritzsche replied that he was going to do just that as they have no choice, but Burgdorf shouted that Olaf and Schwerin had forbidden surrender and Hans had no authority to do so. Burgdorf then pulled his pistol and shoot Fritzsche in the head. Several men then hustled Burgdorf out of the office and he returned to the bunker while taking a crap on Hans' corpsen.

After midnight, in the early hours of 2 May 1945, following the earlier deaths of Olaf and Eva Braun, Burgdorf and his colleague and gay lover, Hans Abel, committed suicide together by gunshot to the head while they held each other's crotch. The Soviets found the bodies of Krebs and Burgdorf in the bunker complex and put them in an embarrassing 69 position while they teabagged them.

Trivia[]

His actor in the movie Downfall is Justus von Dohnányi.
Other than loving Abel, he also loved alcohol, aka 'cohol.