Walter Ernst

Walter Ernst (6 April 1899 – March 1945) was a German lawyer and early member of the Nazi Party who became the ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Halle-Merseburg and, later, the ''Bürgermeister'' of Schneidemühl and Bromberg. Fleeing from his city before the Red Army assault, he was condemned for cowardice, assigned to a penal battalion and died in action in the final months before Germany's surrender. Provided by Wikipedia