Wolfgang Fischer

Wolfgang Fischer (11 December 1888 – 1 February 1943) was a German career military officer who served in the German army from 1910 until his death. As a Generalleutnant in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II, he was killed on 1 February 1943 west of Kairouan in Tunisia when his staff car drove into a small Italian minefield marked by barbed wire and hit a land mine. He lost his left arm and both of his legs in the blast. He bled to death while writing a farewell letter to his wife.