Date of birth:

June 9th, 1914 (Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Date of death:

April 3rd, 1945 (Möllersdorf, Vienna/Lower Austria, Austria)

Buried on:

German War Cemetery Blumau
Plot: 3. Row: 1. Grave: 59.

Service number:

SS-Nr.: 149.486 // NSDAP-Nr.: 4.198.299

Nationality:

German

SS-Sturmbannführer Dieter Fritz Paul Wilhelm Kesten

Promotions:
20.04.1937: SS-Untersturmführer
30.01.1939: SS-Obersturmführer
20.04.1941: SS-Hauptsturmführer der Waffen-SS - RDA 20.04.1940
20.04.1944: SS-Sturmbannführer der Waffen-SS

Career:
01.09.1933: joined the SS, serving in the SS-Standarte 7 then SS-Standarte 79
00.00.1935-00.04.1936: SS-Junkerschule Braunschweig
00.04.1936: SS-Ustuf, SS-Junkerschule Braunschweig
01.05.1937: joined the NSDAP
00.00.1937: SS-Ustuf, II. Bataillon, SS-Regiment 'Germania' then Ordonnanz-Offizier, Stab, SS-Regiment 'Germania', SS-VT
00.05.1940: SS-Ustuf, Adjutant, SS-Brigadeführer Fritz Herrmann, the future commander of SS-Division 'Nord'
00.12.1940: SS-Ustuf, Adjutant, Kdr, commander of the Waffen-SS 'Ost'
00.05.1941: SS-Ustuf, Adjutant, SS-Kampfgruppe 'Nord'
00.05.1942: SS-Ustuf, Adjutant, SS-Division 'Das Reich'
00.00.1942: Führer, 1. Kompanie, SS-Regiment 'Langemarck', 27. SS-Freiwilligen-Division 'Langemarck' then divisional adjutant
00.00.1943-00.11.1943: Führer, 6. Schwadron, SS-Panzer-Regiment 2, 2. SS-Panzer-Division 'Das Reich' - battle of Kursk, Mius River, Kharkov
22.07.1943: fightings near Starja-Ljubotin and Kommuna - 53 Soviet tanks destroyed
23.07.1943: fightings 12km West of Kharkov - 7 Soviet tanks destroyed
24.07.1943: fightings between Udy-Bogens and Orkan, south west of Kharkov - 60 T-34 destroyed - Kesten's panzers knocked out 29 of the 60 tanks
00.11.1943: Kdr, II. Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 2, 2. SS-Panzer-Division 'Das Reich'
03.04.1945: KIA near Möllersdorf, south of Vienna

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• - MOONEY, PETER, Waffen-SS Knights and their Battles, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2012.
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