Date of birth:

January 22nd, 1922 (Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

Date of death:

June 22nd, 1993 (Bad Wildbad, Calw, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

Nationality:

German

Oberleutnant and Chef 2./ Grenadier Regiment 396 - 216. Infanterie Division - Eastern Front

Career:
22.06.1940: enlisted in the Heer - Infanterie Ersatz Bataillon 59 - Olmütz/Olomouc
End 1940: 5./ Inf.Reg.460 - 260.ID
05.1941: sent to the Infanterie-Schule - Döberitz as Offizier-Anwärter
08.08.1941: promoted to Leutnant
09.1941: Eastern Front as Zugführer in the 3./ Inf.Rgt. 413 - 206.ID
End 1941: defense of Rzhev, Volga River, North of Moscow
13.03.1942: WIA for the second time and sent to the Reserve Lazarett in Brunzlau
04.04.1942: sent on leave
25.04.1942: Eastern Front as Zugführer in the 3./ Inf.Rgt. 413 - 206.ID
15.06.1942: Kompanie-Führers Lehrgang - Infanterie Ersatz Bataillon 151 - Germany
09.1942: appointed Führer 2./ Infanterie Regiment 396 - 216. Infanterie Division - Rzhev Salient
01.01.1943: promoted to Oberleutnant
03.1943: evacuation of the Rzhev Salient
07.1943: Battle of Kursk,
14.10.1943: severely WIA by woundshot to the chest during the withdrawal of the Dnjepr River and evacuated to a Lazarett
10.12.1943: returned to the 2./ Infanterie Regiment 396 - Divisional Group 216
10.01.1944: officialy presented with the DKiG
10.04.1944: evacuated for vision problems caused by a concussion suffered from an exploding shell
06.07.1944: discharged and assigned to Grenadier Ersatz Bataillon 396 - Nordheim
14.01.1945: appointed to the Grenadier Ersatz und Ausbildungs Bataillon 398 - Goslar
28.02.1945: Chef, Marsch Kompanie XI/272/4 - 272. Volks-Grenadier Division
10.03.1945: Feld-Ersatz Bataillon 272 - 272. VGD - Remagen bridgehead
15.03.1945: assigned to the Füsilier Kompanie 272 - 272. VGD
17.03.1945: departure from Hanroth to Solscheid (15km) to defend the village located 1km south-west of Niederbreitbach , on the eastern bank of the Wied River
18.03.1945: failed defense due to hasty US attack on Solscheid and Langscheid the 17.03 at 13h45
18.-22.03.1945: sent to Ehlscheid to prepare new defensive positions
25.03.1945: defense of Bonefeld and counter-attack with remnants of the Grenadier Regiment 981 - 272. VGD and surrendered ivo Wilhelmsruh's Forester Lodge located 300m southeast of Bonefeld.
26.03.1945: US POW

Do you have more information about this person? Inform us!

• - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht
  - Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001
  - Scheibert, H., Die Träger des Deutschen Kreuzes in Gold (Das Heer), Podzun-Pallas Verlag, Friedberg, Germany, 1983
  - "Victory Was Beyond Their Grasp: With the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division by Douglas E. Nash