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Lehmann, Heinz (Waffen SS)

Date of birth:
October 13th, 1909 (Stolp)
Date of death:
August 23rd, 1944 (Normandy, France)
Buried on:
German War Cemetery Champigny-St.-André
Plot: 10. Row: 04. Grave: 234.
Service number:
SS-Nr.: 365.755 // NSDAP-Nr.:
Nationality:
German

Biography

00.02.1939: SS-Sturmmann, 5. Sturm, SS-Standarte LSSAH
01.06.1941: promoted to SS-Rottenführer
20.04.1942: promoted to SS-Unterscharführer
00.04.1943: promoted to SS-Oberscharführer
09.06.1944: SS-Oscha, Kdt., Panther Nr. 404, 4. Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 12, 12. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 'Hitlerjugend' - fightings in Norrey en Bessin, Normandy, knocked out when hit three times by anti-tank guns near Le Bourg - SS-Rottenführer Heckl, Fahrer, WIA and evacuated to a Lazarett, SS-Schütze Wolfgang Finke (o24.02.1926), Funker, KIA
11.06.1944: SS-Oscha, Kdt, Panther Nr. 426, 4. Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 12, 12. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 'Hitlerjugend' - fightins in Rots, Normandy, knocked out 4 out 12 attacking Shermann tanks and hit 2 Shermann tanks and 1 Churchill Tank more
and credited with 2 anti-tank guns destroyed at Rots-Bretteville, France
01.07.1944: promoted to SS-Hauptscharführer
01.08.1944: promoted to SS-Untersturmführer
23.08.1944: SS-Ustuf, KIA

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
October 10th, 1940
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
September 20th, 1941
Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Schwarz
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
March 3rd, 1943
Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
April 1st, 1943
in silver
Panzerkampfabzeichen (ohne Zahl)
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
SS-Hauptscharführer (Sergeant Major)
Unit:
4. Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 12, 12. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 'Hitlerjugend'
Awarded on:
August 25th, 1944
Deutsches Kreuz in Gold

Sources

  • - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht

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