Meusgeier, Fritz

Date of birth:: March 8th, 1913 (Scheuerfeld/Oberfranken, Germany)
Date of death:: August 30th, 1945 (Lipnik Railway Station, Czechoslovakia)
Nationality:: German

Biography

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Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Oberfeldwebel (Warrant Officer)
Unit:: Oberschirrmeister, 3. Kompanie, Panzerjäger-Abteilung 13, 13. Panzer-Division, Heer
Awarded on:: November 15th, 1941

The following wartime excerpt describes why Meusgeier received the Knight’s Cross…

“Oberfeldwebel Fritz Messfeier… was awarded the Knight’s Cross on the 15.11.1941 while serving as a Kompanie HQ squad leader in a Panzer-Jäger-Abteilung. He forced an enemy armoured car to surrender, overran Bolshevik covering parties at Mironowka and knocked out 10 enemy tanks north of Nowomoskowsk (he heavily damaged an additional 4).”