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Hamberger, Karl (Grenadier-Regiment 62)

Date of birth:
April 5th, 1917 (Hartmannsöd, Germany)
Date of death:
January 1945 (Marienburg an der Elbing-Thorn / Pomerania - Poland)
Buried on:
Mausoleum Victims National Socialism "Kalkówce"
Nationality:
German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

1938: volunteered - Gefreiter - 2./ Inf.Reg. 62 - 7.ID
03.1938: campaign in Austria
10.1938: campaign in the Sudete / Czechoslovakia
08.1939: Polish border
06.1941: Obergefreiter - 2./ Inf.Rgt. 62
11.1941: fightings in the outskirts of Moscow
02.1942: fightings around Gshatsk with the LVF - Légion des Volontaires Français
04.1942: promoted to Unteroffizier
10.1942: IR.62 renamed Gren.Rgt.62
Summer 1942-1943: fightings at Spas Demensk
Summer 1943: took part to Operation Zitadelle - Kursk as Unteroffizier and Zugführer
End 1943: fightings along the Desna river, then in Gomel and the contested bridgehead over the Narva river at Rozan
08.1944; on leave and promoted to Feldwebel
09.1944: fightings in West Prussia
Fall 1944: Feldwebel and Chef 2./ Gren.Rgt. 62
End1944: fightings along the Bug river
Karl Hamberger is listed as missing in action since the 1st of January 1945 during the hard fightings at Marienburg an der Elbing.
Officially declared KIA in 1959 after research by the German Red Cross.

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Obergefreiter (Corporal)
Unit:
2./ Inf.Rgt. 62
Awarded on:
November 26th, 1941
after fightings outside of Moscow outskirts
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Obergefreiter (Corporal)
Unit:
2./ Inf.Rgt. 62
Awarded on:
February 1st, 1942
for fightings in the spring for Gshatsk
Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Unteroffizier (Junior Officer)
Unit:
Zugführer 2. / Grenadier-Regiment 62 / 7.Infanterie-Division
Awarded on:
May 20th, 1944
after his 50th credited close combat day
Presented at the Führer's HQ on 27 August 1944
Nahkampfspange in Gold
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant)
Unit:
Zugführer 2. / Grenadier-Regiment 62 / 7.Infanterie-Division
Awarded on:
September 7th, 1944
Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Feldwebel (Staff-sergeant)
Unit:
Stellvertretender Führer 2. / Grenadierregiment 62 / 7.Infanterie-Division
Awarded on:
November 8th, 1944
Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Gefreiter (Lance Corporal)
Unit:
2./ Inf.Rgt. 62
Awarded on:
1939
Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. März 1938
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Gefreiter (Lance Corporal)
Unit:
2./ Inf.Rgt. 62
Awarded on:
1939
Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Obergefreiter (Corporal)
Unit:
2./ Inf.Rgt. 62
Awarded on:
1942
Medaille
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Obergefreiter (Corporal)
Unit:
2./ Inf.Rgt. 62
Awarded on:
February 1st, 1942
in silver
Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Obergefreiter (Corporal)
Unit:
2./ Inf.Rgt. 62
Awarded on:
1942
Nahkampfspange in Bronze
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Obergefreiter (Corporal)
Unit:
2./ Inf.Rgt. 62
Awarded on:
1942
Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Schwarz
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Unteroffizier (Junior Officer)
Unit:
2./ Inf.Rgt. 62
Awarded on:
1943
Nahkampfspange in Silber

Sources

  • Photo: TITLE
  • - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
    - Berger F., Ritterkreuzträger mit Nahkampfspange in Gold, Wien, 2004
    - 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
    - Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001
    - Dörr M., Die träger der Nahkampfspange in Gold, Heer- Luftwaffe- Waffen-SS 1943-1945, Biblio Verlag Bisendorf, 2006.
    - TITLE
    - Detailansicht

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