 Walter Heiman

Walter J. Heiman (March 12, 1901 in Essen, Germany – March 18, 2007 in University City, Missouri, United States) was a Jewish American man who at the time of his death had become one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War.Born and raised in Germany, he enlisted as a private in the German Luftstreitkräfte in March 1918, at 17 years of age, after finishing high school.