Date of birth:

April 5th, 1917 (Hartmannsöd, Germany)

Date of death:

January 1945 (Marienburg an der Elbing-Thorn / Pomerania - Poland)

Buried on:

Mausoleum Victims National Socialism "Kalkówce"

Nationality:

German

1938: volunteered - Gefreiter - 2./ Inf.Reg. 62 - 7.ID
03.1938: campaign in Austria
10.1938: campaign in the Sudete / Czechoslovakia
08.1939: Polish border
06.1941: Obergefreiter - 2./ Inf.Rgt. 62
11.1941: fightings in the outskirts of Moscow
02.1942: fightings around Gshatsk with the LVF - Légion des Volontaires Français
04.1942: promoted to Unteroffizier
10.1942: IR.62 renamed Gren.Rgt.62
Summer 1942-1943: fightings at Spas Demensk
Summer 1943: took part to Operation Zitadelle - Kursk as Unteroffizier and Zugführer
End 1943: fightings along the Desna river, then in Gomel and the contested bridgehead over the Narva river at Rozan
08.1944; on leave and promoted to Feldwebel
09.1944: fightings in West Prussia
Fall 1944: Feldwebel and Chef 2./ Gren.Rgt. 62
End1944: fightings along the Bug river
Karl Hamberger is listed as missing in action since the 1st of January 1945 during the hard fightings at Marienburg an der Elbing.
Officially declared KIA in 1959 after research by the German Red Cross.

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