The short biography I will be making of Michael Wittmann and his many achievements I will prioritize posting here before X, as a way to acknowledge the good work of the Volk team.

Michael Wittmann was born on 22 April 1914 in the small Bavarian village of Vogelthal (near Dietfurt in the Upper Palatinate). He was the first-born son of farmer and trader Johann Wittmann and his wife Ursula (née Lachermayer), he grew up in a Catholic family with a younger brother, Johann Jr., and three sisters—Franziska, Anni, and Theresa.
Like many rural German families in the years after the first world war, the Wittmanns faced the many economic hardships of the postwar period, including hyperinflation and the Great Depression. Michael, like many in this age, would grow tired of the system and depravity of the country, and it would lead him to eventually join the solution that would arise.
No early childhood photos exist of Wittmann, resources were simply to scarce for a small rural family.