deaths
November 13, 1954
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (born 1881)
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during World War II. Born into the Prussian noble family von Kleist, Kleist entered the Prussian Army in 1900 and commanded a cavalry squadron during World War I. Kleist joined the Reichswehr of inter-war Germany before being discharged in 1938.