Date of birth:

November 8th, 1911 (Hettenleidelheim, Rheinland-Pfalz - Germany)

Nationality:

German

lastly promoted to Leutnant der Reserve in the 13th Company, 3rd Battalion, 98th Gebirgsjäger Regiment, 1st Mountain Division.
1939: campaign in Poland
1940: campaign in France
08.06.1940: WIA
1941: campaign in the Balkans then in Russia: south Russia at Uman, Stalino and Mius
06.11.1941: WIA for the 2d time ivo Mius
1942: campaign in Mius, Kharkov, and then in the Caucasus : Kluchorpass, Litschtal, Elbruspass, Canaikatal and Schemacho
27.08.1942 : WIA for the 3rd time
02.10.1942: WIA for the 4th time
06.10.1942: WIA for the 5th time
Beginning 1943: retreat retreat from the Caucasus to the Kuban
03.1943: campaign in the Balkans, Greece: Ioannina
15.05.-16.06.1943: operations against the Partisans during the Case Black operation
07.1943: in Albania, in the Korce region (Borovë) from the Macedonia part of Yugoslavia
25.07.1943:
Fall 1943: commissioned as Leutnant and acting company commander of the 13th Company
1944: campaign in Hungary in the Operation Margerethe: Avala mountain near Belgrade, Baranja near Cseto some 30 kilometres south of Kaposvar and south of Lake Balaton

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Oberjäger (Corporal)

Unit:

13./ III./ Gebirgsjäger Regiment 98

Awarded on:

June 1940

WIA 08.06.1940

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Oberjäger (Corporal)

Unit:

13. Kompanie, III. Bataillon, Gebirgsjäger Regiment 98

Awarded on:

June 1940

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Obergefreiter (Corporal)

Unit:

13. Kompanie, Gebirgsjäger Regiment 98

Awarded on:

July 25th, 1941

in silver

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Oberjäger (Corporal)

Unit:

13./ III./ Gebirgsjäger Regiment 98

Awarded on:

October 4th, 1942

WIA the 08.06.1940 + 06.11.1941 + 27.08.1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Oberjäger (Corporal)

Unit:

13. Kompanie, III. Bataillon, Gebirgsjäger Regiment 98

Awarded on:

December 28th, 1941

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant)

Unit:

13./ III./ Gebirgsjäger Regiment 98

Awarded on:

January 21st, 1943

WIA the 08.06.1940 + 06.11.1941 + 27.08.1942 + 02.10.1942 + 06.10.1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant)

Unit:

13./ III./ Gebirgsjäger Regiment 98

Awarded on:

June 27th, 1943

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant)

Unit:

13. Kompanie, III. Bataillon, Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 98, 1. Gebirgs-Division, Heer

Awarded on:

July 20th, 1943

Award of the German Cross in Gold was made on 20th July 1943, and can be assumed to be for his actions during Operation Case Black during May to June 1943 and in response to the ambush of his regiment in two different places near the village of Borovë by Albanian National Liberation Movement, led by Riza Kodheli and the reprisal operations in early July 1943.
The regiment then launched a reprisal against the village of Borove on 6th July 1943. Among the 107 inhabitants killed were five entire families. The 98th Gebirgsjäger Regiment armed with flame throwers, set every house in the village on fire and massacred all the inhabitants of the village of Borovë that they could find on that day. Some of the victims were killed in place while many were grouped inside the village church and burned alive.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Leutnant der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant of Reserves)

Unit:

13. Kompanie, III. Bataillon, Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 98, 1. Gebirgs-Division, Heer

Awarded on:

February 25th, 1945

• Photo: Germany - Third Reich: The important and rare Gebirgsjäger Fall of France 1940, Eastern Front 1941 to 1943 southern Russian, Caucasus to Kuban, Yugoslavia, Albania and Greece Anti-Partisan Operation Case Black and July 1943 German Cross in Gold and Hungar | London Medal Company
  
• - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
  - Scheibert, Horst. Die Träger der Ehrenblattspange des Heeres und der Waffen-SS/ Die Träger der Ehrentaffelspange der Kriegsmarine/ Die Inhaber des Ehrenpokals für Besondere Leistung im Lukftkrieg. Friedberg, Ger.: Podzun-Pallas Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-7909-0283-7
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