Beck, Wilhelm (SS-Pz.Rgt. 1)
- Date of birth:
- December 22nd, 1919 (Bitz/Württemberg, Germany)
- Date of death:
- June 10th, 1944 (La Cain/Normandy, Frankrijk)
- Buried on:
- German War Cemetery La Cambe
Plot: 36. Grave: 325. - Service number:
- SS-Nr.: 382.517 // NSDAP-Nr.:
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
In service from November 1st 1938.
Promotions:
1938: SS volunteer
1940: SS-Sturmmann
1940: SS-Oberscharführer
1940: SS-Untersturmfuhrer d.R.
1941: SS-Obersturmfuhrer d.R.
1943: SS-Hauptsturmführer d.R.
Career:
00.00.1940: SS-Oberscharführer, SS-Sturmgeschütz-Batterie, LSSAH
00.00.1943: II. Bataillon, SS-Panzer-Regiment 1, LSSAH
00.00.1943: SS-Hstuf, Chef, 2. Kompanie, 12. SS-Panzer-Division 'Hitlerjugend'
10.06.1944: KIA during a carpet bombing near Caen, Normandy
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Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- May 2nd, 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- September 14th, 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Obersturmführer (Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- Führer, 2. Kompanie, I. Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 1, SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler", Waffen-SS
- Awarded on:
- March 28th, 1943
Submitted on March 26th 1943.
Preliminary document and decoration on April 3rd 1943 to Heeresgruppe Süd.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- February 21st, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- March 15th, 1943
Voenen Orden "Za Hrabrost" IV stepen, 1 klas
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- July 10th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- August 20th, 1942
Sources
- Photo 1: Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv
- Photo: Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv
- - FEDERL, CH., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Panzerdivisionen 1939-1945, VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, 2000.
- FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
- MOONEY, PETER, Waffen-SS Knights and their Battles, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd, 2010.
- WEGMANN, GÜNTER, Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht 1939-1945, Biblio-Verlag, 2004.
- Axis Biographical Research
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