Date of birth:

June 23rd, 1903 (Taurkalne, Russian Empire)

Date of death:

July 4th, 1986 (Madliena hospital, Latvian SSR , USSR)

Service number:

SS-Nr.: // NSDAP-Nr.:

Nationality:

Latvian

00.00.1921: entered the Latvian army 2nd Ventspils Infantry Regiment
01.10.1924: Corporal
00.00.1925-00.00.1939: 9th Rēzekne Infantry Regiment
30.03.1926: Sergeant
00.00.1926: Military Academy
01.09.1926: promoted to Lieutenant
11.11.1929: promoted to First Lieutenant
00.00.1937: course of physical education of the Army
00.00.1940: Latvian occupation - remained in his service in the now Soviet Red Army
00.06.1941: demobilised before Operation Barbarossa started
00.09.1941: volunteered to join the Wehrmacht
00.10.1941: Waffen-Obersturmführer, Chef, 16. Polizei-Bataillon Zemgale / Semigallia - anti-partisan duties in the Leningrad Front near the Lake Ilmen and Staraya Russa
01.05.1943: promoted to Waffen-Hauptsturmführer - RDA 01.11.1942
00.00.1943: 16. Polizei-Bataillon Zemgale, 2. Lettische Brigade, Lettische Legion
00.10.1944: Waffen-Sturmbannführer, Kdr, I. Bataillon, Waffen-Grenadier-Regiment der SS 42 (lett. Nr.1), 19. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (lett. Nr. 2)
00.03.1945: Waffen-Obersturmbannführer, Kdr, Waffen-Grenadier-Regiment der SS 43, 19. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (2. Lettische) - Kurland pocket
00.00.1947: handed over to NKVD by a former comrade
00.00.1948: sentenced to 25 years in Vorkuta prison camps
00.00.1958: released

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Waffen-Hauptsturmführer

Awarded on:

October 24th, 1943

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Waffen-Hauptsturmführer

Awarded on:

February 16th, 1944

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Waffen-Sturmbannführer

Unit:

Führer, I. Bataillon, Waffen-Grenadier-Regiment der SS 42 (lett. Nr.1), 19. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (lett. Nr. 2), Waffen-SS

Awarded on:

November 28th, 1944

The unit is written in Patzwall / Scherzer as I./SS-GR 42

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

April 1945

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Waffen-Sturmbannführer

Unit:

Kommandeur, Waffen-Grenadier-Regiment der SS 43 (lett. Nr.2), 19. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (lett. Nr. 2), Waffen-SS

Awarded on:

May 11th, 1945

Proposal arrived at HPA on 25.03.1945 ; official HPA proposal (HPA-VV) with date 30.03.1945 ; Karteikarte in the section for rejected proposals existing ; book "Verliehene Ritterkreuze" has no entry in section "verliehen" [awarded] ; no confirmation for an award to find ; award date determined by OdR.

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• - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
  - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
  - das-ritterkreuz.de
  - axishistory.com