Date of birth:

December 13th, 1908 (Stettin/Pomerania, Germany)

Date of death:

July 29th, 1944 (Sinimaëd, Peipus Lake, Estonia)

Buried on:

German War Cemetery Narwa / Narva
Grave: UNK.

Service number:

SS-Nr.: 6.909 // NSDAP-Nr.: 261.271

Nationality:

German

SS-Standartenführer Hans Viktor Karl Oskar Collani

27.07.1944: WIA at Tannenberg, Narva River, Estonia
29.07.1944: DOW in the Lazarett near the Lake Peipus

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Awarded on:

1938

Awarded on:

March 2nd, 1939

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

May 22nd, 1939

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

September 25th, 1939

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

June 16th, 1942

with swords

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

September 10th, 1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

October 18th, 1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

January 1943

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-colonel)

Awarded on:

June 7th, 1943

with swords

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-colonel)

Unit:

Kommandeur, SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 49 "de Ruyter", 4.SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Brigade "Nederland"

Awarded on:

April 24th, 1944

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-colonel)

Unit:

Kommandeur, SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 49 "de Ruyter", SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Brigade "Nederland"

Awarded on:

August 19th, 1944

Collani’s Knight’s Cross recommendation was sent by radio and reads as follows…

“The Regiment ‘de Ruyter’ under the command of SS-Obersturmbannführer Collani has stood in the thick of the fighting and repulsed major armoured attacks. By doing so it prevented an enemy breakthrough towards Reval, however in the process the regimental commander died a heroic death. It is requested that the deceased receive a belated award of the Knight’s Cross to the Iron Cross.”

The document refers to the successes of the Regiment during the fighting on the Narwa front in summer 1944.

This medal was posthumously awarded. He was also promoted posthumously to SS-Standartenführer (Colonel).

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