Fiedler, Johann (Waffen SS)
- Date of birth:
- April 28th, 1922 (Stangendorf, Czechoslovakia)
- Date of death:
- September 23rd, 1999 (Wechingen/Bavaria, Germany)
- Service number:
- SS-Nr.: // NSDAP-Nr.:
- Nationality:
- Czechoslovakian (1918 - 1948, Republic)
Biography
Promotions:
00.00.0000: SS-Sturmmann
00.00.0000: SS-Rottenführer
00.00.0000: SS-Unterscharführer
00.00.0000: SS-Scharführer
00.00.0000: SS-Oberscharführer
00.00.1941: 3. SS-Panzer-Division 'Totenkopf'
00.02.1942-00.04.1942: Demyansk Pocket
00.00.1944: Zugführer, 5. Kompanie, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 6 'Theodor Eicke', 3. SS-Panzer-Division 'Totenkopf'
00.06.1944: SS-Unterscharführer, Battle of the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket
00.00.1945: SS-Infanterie-Ersatz-Bataillon 'Totenkopf'
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Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Schwarz
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- June 3rd, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- June 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- June 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- October 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- October 14th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Unterscharführer (Sergeant)
- Unit:
- Zugführer, 5. Kompanie, II. Bataillon, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 6 "Theodor Eicke", 3. SS-Panzer-Division "Totenkopf", Waffen-SS
- Awarded on:
- June 16th, 1944
“On the 26.04.1944 the SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 6 ‘Theodor Eicke’ attacked towards Pascani with the intent of improving its own lines. After overwhelming the first hostile trenches an enemy flanking position containing numerous bunkers that had not previously been identified made itself very uncomfortably felt. Under fire from the flanking bunkers and field positions, the friendly attack initially bogged down.
In this situation SS-Unterscharführer Fiedler led his squad into an attack against the enemy trench on his own initiative and rolled it up in bitter close combat. He eliminated the bunkers that formed part of the enemy’s defensive network with great prudence and exemplary bravado.
Through this independently conducted action Fiedler took out the enemy flanking threat, and in doing so he enabled the attack of the two forwardly deployed Bataillone to proceed. He personally captured the following:
35 prisoners
1 anti-tank gun
2 heavy machine-guns
5 light machine-guns
39 machine-pistols.
Over 40 enemy dead lay amongst the trenches and bunkers he had cleared. Through this achievement Unterscharführer Fiedler has achieved a decisive success far out of proportion to his battlefield importance.
I ask that SS-Unterscharführer Fiedler (who has already been wounded in the East a total of 9 times) be awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross for his heroic deed and its associated success.”
Sources
- Photo 1: Igor Poul
- - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
- SCHNEIDER, J.W., Their Honor Was Loyalty!, Bender (R.James) Publishing, 1993.
- THOMAS, FRANZ & WEGMANN, GÜNTER, Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht 1939-1945, Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf, 2003.
- Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
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