Schmitz, Karl (Waffen-SS)
- Date of birth:
- June 2nd, 1913 (Prüm/Eifel)
- Date of death:
- 1950 (Ukhta-Pechora Camp, Vorkutlag, Vorkuta, Воркута́, Kom)
- Service number:
- SS-Nr.: 94.654 // NSDAP-Nr.: 5.360.854
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
Promotions:
09.11.1939: SS-Untersturmführer
01.09.1940: SS-Obersturmführer
30.01.1943: SS-Hauptsturmführer
30.01.1944: SS-Sturmbannführer
Career:
01.03.1933: joined the SS
00.03.1935: SD-Hauptamt
01.04.1938: joined the NSDAP
00.09.1939: Sicherheitspolizei - campaign in Poland
00.00.1941: SS-Ostuf, SD, Crimea
00.09.1941-00.12.1941: SS-Ostuf, SS-Sonderkommando - Poland
00.01.1942-00.01.1943: SS-Ostuf, Ic, Stab, HSSPF Russland-Süd, anti-partisans fightings - Crimea
00.12.1942: SD-Abschnitt Kiel
00.01.1943-00.12.1943: SS-Hstuf, BdS Kiew, anti-partisans fightings - Ukraine
00.00.1943: SD-Leitabschnitt Posen
00.01.1944-00.04.1944: SS-Stubaf, Führer, Aufklärungs-Abteilung, SS-Kampgruppe 'Prützmann', BdS Triest - Italy
00.01.1945-00.04.1945: SS-Stubaf, Führer, Еinsatzkommando 13, Einsatzgruppe H, Trencin, West Slovakia
00.05.1945: captured by the Soviet
00.00.1950: died of tuberculosis in Soviet POW camp, coal-mine Ukhta-Pechora Camp, Vorkuta, Arctic Circle
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Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2.Klasse mit Schwertern
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Obersturmführer (Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- SD
- Awarded on:
- April 20th, 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Obersturmführer (Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- SD
- Awarded on:
- May 9th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Obersturmführer (Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- SD
- Awarded on:
- June 16th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Obersturmführer (Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- Chef, Sonderkommando
- Awarded on:
- August 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1942
Ordinul Coroana Romaniei Cavaler
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain)
- Awarded on:
- 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain)
- Unit:
- Führer, SS-Sonderkommando, BdS Kiew
- Awarded on:
- March 13th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain)
- Unit:
- Führer, Sonderkommando, BdS Kiew, Ukraine
- Awarded on:
- August 7th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Sturmbannführer (Major)
- Unit:
- Führer, Aufklärungs-Abteilung, SS-Kampfgruppe 'Prützmann'
- Awarded on:
- March 31st, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Sturmbannführer (Major)
- Unit:
- Führer, Kampfgruppe 'Prützmann'
- Awarded on:
- July 2nd, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Sturmbannführer (Major)
- Unit:
- Kdr., Aufklärungs-Abteilung, Kampfgruppe 'Prützmann'
- Awarded on:
- 1944
Sources
- - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X
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