Tjaden Stackfleet (1888-10 November 1918) was a German soldier who served in the Imperial German Army on the Western Front of World War I.
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Tjaden Stackfleet was born in Germany in 1888, and he never went to school. Instead, he joined the Imperial German Army during World War I, with the dream of remaining with the Prussians after the war and becoming a ranger, seeing military life as his only option. He was deployed to the Western Front with the 78th Reserve Infantry Regiment, and he befriended Albrecht Katczinsky and the new arrivals Peter Bäumer, Albert Kropp, and Franz Muller. On 10 November 1918, he was wounded in the leg during a French armored assault on the Germans' recently-captured trench, and, rather than live as a cripple, he repeatedly stabbed himself in the jugular with a fork, causing him to bleed out.