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Knapp, Wilhelm Paul

Date of birth:
September 21st, 1910 (Basel/Basel-Stadt, Switzerland)
Nationality:
Suisse

Biography

Promotions:
01.01.1934: Leutnant (Swiss army)
01.01.1939: Oberleutnant (Swiss Army)
01.06.1942: SS-Obersturmführer
20.04.1944: SS-Hauptsturmführer

Career:
24.10.1941-19.01.1942: Adjutant and accountant during the first medical mission of the
Swiss Red Cross on the eastern front
20.04.1942: Entry in the Waffen-SS
01.06.1942-10.01.1943 : SS-Gerbirgsjäger-Ersatz-Bataillon "Nord"
10.01.1943-29.09.1943 : 7. SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division "Prinz Eugen"
XX.09.1943-XX.10.1943: SS-Lazarett Baden bei Wien, wounded by shrapnel to the thigh
29.09.1943-01.02.1944 : SS-Gebirgsjäger-Ausbildungs-und-Ersatz-Bataillon 7
01.02.1944-29.07.1944 : SS-Gebirgsjäger-Ausbildungs-und-Ersatz-Bataillon 6
29.07.1944-XX.XX.XX: SS-Hstuf, Chef, 6. Kompanie, Waffen-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment der SS 51, Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS "Skanderbeg"
XX.XX.1945: Missing in action in Yugoslavia

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Sources

  • - NARA Microfilm Publication A3343, Series SSO, Roll 185a, Frames 477-542

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