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Rennert, Kurt (Waffen SS)

Date of birth:
September 26th, 1919 (Thalheim)
Service number:
SS-Nr.: 378.006 // NSDAP-Nr.: 5.355.622
Nationality:
German

Biography

Promotions:
20.04.1941: SS-Untersturmführer
09.11.1942: SS-Obersturmführer
21.06.1944: SS-Hauptsturmführer

Career:
01.05.1933-01.04.1939: Hitlerjugend
01.09.1937: joined the NSDAP
01.04.1939-03.10.1939: RAD
13.11.1939: joined the SS
20.04.1941: SS-Ustuf, VB, SS-Artillerie-Regiment 2, SS-Division "Reich"
00.11.1942-00.12.1942: SS-Ostuf, Adjutant, IV. Abteilung, SS-Artillerie-Regiment 2, SS-Division "Reich"
00.12.1942-15.07.1943: SS.Ostuf., VB, SS-Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 2, 2. SS-Division 'Das Reich'
00.01.1943: SS-Ostuf, Chef, 11. Batterie, SS-Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 2, 2. SS-Division 'Das Reich'
00.02.1943: SS-Ostuf, Chef, 12. Batterie, SS-Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 2, 2. SS-Division 'Das Reich'
15.07.1943-00.06.1944: SS-Ostuf., SS-Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 9, SS-Panzer-Regiment 9, 9. SS-Panzer-Division 'Hohenstaufen'
00.06.1944-26.07.1944: SS-Hstuf., Chef, 8. Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 9, 9. SS-Panzer-Division 'Hohenstaufen'
26.07.1944-05.12.1944: SS-Hstuf., Kdr, I. Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 9, 9. SS-Panzer-Division 'Hohenstaufen'

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
SS-Untersturmführer (2nd Lieutenant)
Awarded on:
July 28th, 1941
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
SS-Untersturmführer (2nd Lieutenant)
Awarded on:
August 25th, 1941
Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
1942
Medaille
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain)
Unit:
Chef, 8. Kompanie, II. Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 9, 9. SS-Panzer-Division "Hohenstaufen", II. SS-Panzer-Korps
Awarded on:
August 19th, 1944
based on a recommandation signed by Eberhard Tellkamp the 15.07.1944 endorsed by Otto Meyer and Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock and approved by Wilhelm Bittrich
Deutsches Kreuz in Gold

Sources

  • - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht
    - Tieke, W., In the firestorm of the last years of the war – II SS.–Panzerkorps with the 9. and 10. SS–Divisions "Hohenstaufen" and "Frundsberg", J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc., Winnipeg, Canada, 1999

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