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Ernst Wilhelm Lotz (* 6. February 1890 Culm on the Vistula , West Prussia ; † 26. September 1914 in Bouconville , France ) was a German poet of expressionism .
His childhood spent Lotz, son of a cadet school professor , at several locations: Köslin (Pomerania), Karlsruhe (Baden), Wahlstatt (Silesia) and Ploen (Holstein). 1906 began his officer training at the cadet school in Berlin-Lichterfelde . In 1907 he was in the infantry regiment no. 143 in Strasbourg for Ensign promoted shortly thereafter to lieutenant . After one and a half years as an officer in 1911, he took his leave and tried as a merchant for a Hamburger Import-Export Company. As a freelance writer, he translated poems by Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine . In 1914 he married Henny Romeycke. The spring of 1914 he spent together with Meidner in Dresden and moved together with it a residential studio. [1] At the outbreak of war in August 1914, he volunteered for the army, was readjusted in Strasbourg and used on the Western Front. On September 7, 1914 he was awarded the Iron Cross . He was 24-years as a company commander during a raid in a French trench.