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Wendrinsky, Gustav (Waffen SS)

Date of birth:
January 24th, 1923 (Preßburg, Czechoslovakia)
Date of death:
February 13th, 1945 (Csobanka, Hungary)
Buried on:
German-Hungarian War Cemetery Budaörs
Grave: UNK.
Service number:
SS-Nr.: // NSDAP-Nr.:
Nationality:
Czechoslovakian (1918 - 1948, Republic)

Biography

00.00.1940: joined the Waffen SS
00.00.1940: SS-Reiter, SS-Totenkopf-Reiter-Standarte 2, Warsaw
00.06.1941: SS-Kavallerie-Regiment 2, SS-Kavallerie-Brigade
00.12.1941: Kampfgruppe, SS-Kavallerie-Brigade - fightings in Rzhev, Moscow
00.02.1942-00.09.1942: refit in Truppenübungsplatz Debica, Krakow, Poland
00.09.1942: 1. Kompanie, SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung, SS-Kavallerie-Division - Rjev, Don, Golaia, Orel
00.11.1942: 1. Kompanie, SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung, SS-Kavallerie-Division, XXX. Armee-Korps
00.01.1943: 1. Kompanie, SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung, SS-Kavallerie-Division, XXXXI. Panzer-Korps 'Lemelsen'
00.06.1943-00.08.1943: anti-partisan fightings along the Dniepr and the Pripjet
22.10.1943: 1. Kompanie, SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 8, 8. SS-Kavallerie-Division 'Florian Geyer'
00.12.1943: anti-partisan fightings in Croatia
19.11.1944: Operation 'Margarethe', Hungary
00.12.1944: SS-Oscha, 1. Kompanie, SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 8, 8. SS-Kavallerie-Division 'Florian Geyer' - destroyed 25 Soviet tanks near Budapest
00.12.1944: destroyed 2 soviet tanks with Panzerfaust near Vac
11.02.1945-12.02.1945: SS-Oscha, reported MIA and probably KIA near Csobanka, West of Budapest when trying to breakout of the encirclement of the capital
00.02.1945: posthumously promoted to SS-Hauptscharführer

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
1941
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
1942
Medaille
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
1942
(Allgemeines) Sturmabzeichen (ohne zahlen), I.Stufe
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
October 1st, 1943
Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
Unit:
1. Kompanie, SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 8, 8. SS-Kavallerie-Division 'Florian Geyer'
Awarded on:
December 1944
Panzervernichtungsabzeichen in Silber
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
Unit:
Zugführer, 1. Kompanie, SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 8, 8. SS-Kavallerie-Division 'Florian Geyer'
Awarded on:
December 1944
Panzervernichtungsabzeichen in Silber
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
Unit:
Zugführer, 1. Kompanie, Panzerjäger-Abteilung 8, 8. SS-Kavallerie-Division "Florian Geyer", Waffen-SS
Awarded on:
January 27th, 1945
Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

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