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Michael Kitzelmann (born January 29 1916 in Horben, today part of Gestratz, Westallgäu; died June 11th 1942 in Orel, Orel today in Central) was a lieutenant in the German Army during World War II, who was executed for undermining military strength. Kitzelmann came from a strict Catholic family. With the support of his teacher and his pastor in 1928 he joined the Gymnasium in Dillingen an der Donau. He graduated from the Catholic minor seminary in 1936 with the Abitur. In the same year he completed six months of the Reich Labor Service in Pfronten-Ried and began September 1936 with a three-semester study at the Theological Academy of St. Stephen in Augsburg with the aim of becoming a priest.[1] In 1937 he applied for an additional teacher at the Hochschule in Munich-Pasing. They rejected his request because he was not willing to enter into the prescribed Nazi organizations.[2] To do his military service Kitzelmann moved in the summer of 1937 to 20 Infantry Regiment in Lindau, but then as a volunteer and officer candidate in the 91st Infanterie-Regiment. Infantry Regiment.
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