Date of birth:

February 17th, 1920 (Leverkusen-Wiesdorf/Rhineland, Germany)

Date of death:

February 22nd, 1995 (Leverkusen/North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Service number:

SS-Nr.: // NSDAP-Nr.:

Nationality:

German

00.00.1936-00.00.1939: Hitlerjugend
00.00.1939-00.00.1940: RAD
30.09.1940; joined the SS-VT as SS-Grenadier, 3. Kompanie, SS-Totenkopf-Standarte
00.10.1940: Infanterie-Gruppenführer-Lehrgang
00.11.1941: SS-Offizier-Anwärter, SS-Junkerschule Braunschweig
00.04.1942: SS-Standartenoberjunker, SS-Division 'Das Reich'
00.06.1942: SS-Untersturmführer der Reserve, Panzer-Kommandant, 2. Schwadron, SS-Panzer-Abteilung 2, 2. SS-Division 'Das Reich'
00.00.1943: SS-Ustuf, Zugführer, 3. Schwadron, SS-Panzer-Regiment 2, 2. SS-Panzer-Division 'Das Reich'
20.04.1944: promoted to SS-Obersturmführer der Reserve
00.05.1944: Chef, 7. Schwadron, SS-Panzer-Regiment 2, 2. SS-Panzer-Division 'Das Reich' - Normandy
24.12.1944-25.12.1944: severely WIA by shrapnells in the breast, Battle for Baraque de Fraiture, Ardennes - sent to a Lazarett
29.12.1944: proposed for the Ehrenblattspange des Heeres - proposal upgraded to the RK
08.05.1945: still in a Lazarett to heal his wounds

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• Photo 1: Willi Schumacher Collection
• Photo 2:
• - Delaforce P., The Battle of the Bulge: Hitlers Final Gamble, Pearson Education Limited, United Kingdom, 2004
  - Schneider J.W., Their Honor was Loyalty!, R. James Bender Publishing, 1977
  - das-ritterkreuz.de
  - dasreich.ca
  - Microfilm Publication A3343. US National Archives.