Date of birth:

October 20th, 1914 (Hamburg/Hamburg, Germany)

Date of death:

March 9th, 1945 (Esztergom, Hungary)

Service number:

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

Nationality:

German

Oswald Krauss was reported missing in action on 9th March 1945 in Hungary as SS-Obersturmbannführer.

Promotions:
SS-Untersturmführer
SS-Obersturmführer
SS-Hauptsturmführer
11.10.1944: SS-Sturmbannführer
SS-Obersturmbannführer

Career:
01.07.1944-11.02.1945: SS-Hstuf, Kdr, SS-Freiwilligen-Kavallerie-Regiment 15, 8. SS-Kavallerie-Division 'Florian Geyer'

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

September 20th, 1944

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

SS-Sturmbannführer (Major)

Unit:

Führer, SS-Kavallerie-Regiment 15, 8. SS-Kavallerie-Division "Florian Geyer", Waffen-SS

Awarded on:

January 27th, 1945

Krauss’s Knight’s Cross recommendation was submitted via telex, and reads as follows…

“Since the start of combat in the Budapest pocket SS-Sturmbannführer Krauss and his Regiment have repelled or cleaned up 75 attacks in battalion or company strength. On the 02.01.1945, following days of hard and eventful combat around the rocky Hill 300, he launched an envelopment attack with his last 35 men on his own initiative and definitively brought the hill under our control. Enemy losses amounted to 90 dead, numerous infantry weapons and 5 anti-tank guns.”

• - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
  - Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945
  - Microfilm Publication A3343. US National Archives.