sentences:  In this capacity, he played a role in the forced suicide of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.Burgdorf committed suicide in the "Führerbunker" on 2 May 1945 at the conclusion of the Battle of Berlin.Burgdorf joined the Prussian Army at the outbreak of World War I as an officer cadet and was commissioned as an infantry officer in Grenadier Regiment 12 in 1915.