Fleckenstein, Hubert (Grenadier-Regiment 106)

Date of birth:: June 6th, 1920 (Weller, Germany)
Date of death:: April 21st, 1945 (Frankfurt-Oder, Germany)
Nationality:: German

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Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant)
Unit:: Zugführer Stabskompanie / Grenadier-Regiment 106 / 15. Infanterie-Division
Awarded on:: January 31st, 1944

The following press excerpt describes why Fleckenstein would receive the Knight’s Cross as follows…

“The Führer has awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross to Feldwebel Hubert Fleckenstein, Zugführer in a Grenadier-Regiment…

Feldwebel Hubert Fleckenstein was dispatched to seal off an enemy penetration northeast of Krivoi Rog. Here he threw back superior Soviet forces in bitter close combat via an independently led counterattack, captured three operational anti-tank guns and laid the groundwork for the recapture of the old frontline.”

Another contemporary press article provides further insight into the circumstances that led him to receiving this high award…

“While it was still dark on a November morning, enemy forces launched a surprise thrust into the area around a train station on the southern sector of the Eastern front. As this strongpoint was of great strategic importance to the German leadership, the clearing of this area was ordered. Feldwebel Fleckenstein and his Infanterie-Pionierzug were to be used for this counterattack. With a Hurra on their lips Feldwebel Fleckenstein and his comrades stormed against the tenfold superior enemy, and they achieved the nearly impossible in bitter close combat. The enemy could not withstand the impetuous drive of our brave Mainfränkischen Grenadiere (which included several soldiers from the Aschaffenburg-Alzenau district), and they were forced to flee while leaving behind large numbers of dead, wounded and prisoners. This was achieved at the cost of only very minor losses on the German side.”