Boska, Karl-Heinz (Waffen SS)
- Date of birth:
- October 18th, 1920 (Kiel/Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
- Date of death:
- October 22nd, 2004 (Raisdorf-Kiel/Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
- Service number:
- SS-Nr.: 423.651 // NSDAP-Nr.: 7.184.665
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
00.00.1937: Napola Boska Plön
00.09.1939: SS-Radfahr-Ersatz-Bataillon 1
00.06.1940: 3. Kompanie, SS-Radfahr-Bataillon, SS-VT
00.02.1941: SS-Radfahr-Bataillon 'Reich' - campaign in the Balkans, Operation Marita
00.09.1941-00.04.1942: SS-Junkerschule Braunschweig
00.05.1942: SS-Untersturmführer, Zugführer, SS-Regiment 'Langemarck'
00.10.1942: SS-Untersturmführer, Zugführer, Stabskompanie, II. Bataillon, 2. SS-Panzer-Regiment 'Das Reich'
00.10.1943: SS-Ustuf, Kdr, 6. Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 2, 2. SS-Panzer-Regiment 'Das Reich'
00.11.1943: Schewtschenkiwka region
13.11.1943: Bolschaja Grab
16.12.1943: promoted to SS-Obersturmführer, Adjutant, II. Bataillon, SS-Panzer-Regiment 2, 2. SS-Panzer-Regiment 'Das Reich'
00.07.1944: Stab, VII. Armee
00.09.1944: 6. Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 2, 2. SS-Panzer-Regiment 'Das Reich' - fightings around Wien
00.05.1945: British POW
00.03.1948: released
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Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- August 28th, 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- February 21st, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- January 24th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- February 22nd, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Untersturmführer (2nd Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- Stabs-Kompanie, 11. Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 2
- Awarded on:
- April 18th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- September 7th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Obersturmführer (Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- Adjutant, II. Bataillon, SS-Panzer-Regiment 2, 2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich", 4. Panzerarmee, Heeresgruppe Süd
- Awarded on:
- December 16th, 1943
Submitted on December 4th 1943.
Preliminary document and decoration on December 24th 1943 to Panzer AOK 4.
Sources
- Photo 1: Norbert Beyerlein
- Photo: Beyerlein Sammlung
- - MOONEY, PETER, Waffen-SS Knights and their Battles, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2012.
- WEGMANN, GÜNTER, Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht 1939-1945, Biblio-Verlag, 2004.
- Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Federl, C., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Panzerdivisionen 1939-1945, VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, Germany, 2000
- Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
- Scheibert H., Die Träger Ehrenblattspange des Heeres und der Waffen-SS, Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, 1986, ISBN 978-3790902839
- Microfilm Publication A3343. US National Archives.
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