Date of birth:

February 5th, 1921 (Georgswalde, Jiříkov, Czechoslowakia)

Date of death:

February 12th, 1945 (Budapest, Hungary)

Service number:

SS-Nr.: 452.006 (V) // NSDAP-Nr.:

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

00.00.1938: joined the SS-VT - campaign in Austria and the Sudetes
00.00.1939: SS-Standarte "Deutschland", SS-VT
00.08.1941: SS-Uscha, SS-Infanterie-Regiment 'Deutschland' - campaign in Russia
00.00.1942: SS-Junker, SS-Junkerschule
00.04.1942: promoted to SS-Untersturmführer der Reserve
00.05.1942: SS-Ustuf d.R., Zugführer, 3. Schwadron, SS-Reiter-Regiment 3
00.10.1942: WIA
00.07.1943: WIA
00.00.1943: SS-Ustuf d.R., Zugführer, 4. Schwadron, SS-Reiter-Regiment 15
00.10.1944: SS-Ustuf d.R., Zugführer, 4. Schwadron, SS-Reiter-Regiment 15, 8. SS-Kavallerie-Division 'Florian Geyer' - campaign in Hungary
09.11.1944: promoted to SS-Obersturmführer der Reserve
00.02.1945: SS-Ostuf d.R., Führer, 1. Schwadron, SS-Reiter-Regiment 15, 8. SS-Kavallerie-Division 'Florian Geyer' - Battle of Budapest
11.02.1945: severely WIA and abandoned by his own unit at his own request
12.02.1945: reported MIA in Budapest

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• - Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
  - Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945