Date of birth:

December 2nd, 1921 (Teschen/Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia)

Date of death:

May 17th, 2001 (Straubing/Bavaria, Germany)

Service number:

SS-Nr.: 455 613 // NSDAP-Nr.:

Nationality:

Austrian

Promotions:
December 1st, 1940: SS-Sturmmann;
November 1st, 1941: SS-Rottenführer;
April 20th, 1942: SS-Unterscharführer;
1943: SS-Standartenoberjunker;
March 10th, 1943: SS-Untersturmführer;
June 21st, 1944: SS-Obersturmführer.

Career:
?: 3. Kompanie, SS-Krad-Schützen-Ersatz-Bataillon, Ellwangen;
?: 3. Batterie, Panzerjäger-Bataillon SS-Division Reich;
January 1942: 2. Batterie, ss-Panzerjäger-Abteilung Nord;
June - December 1942: SS-Junkerschule, Braunschweig;
December 1942: SS-Panzerjäger-Ersatz-Abteilung, Hilversum;
February 1943: Zugführer Panzergrenadier-Regiment 21;
May 1943: Zugführer, 3. Batterie, SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 10;
January 1944 - February 1944: Panzerschule, Sagan;
February 1944: 7. Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 10 "Langemark".

Tank ace credited with the destruction of more than 40 tanks

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