Jaeger, Karl-Heinz
- Date of birth:
- June 25th, 1914 (Dortmund/Westphalia, Germany)
- Date of death:
- December 20th, 1992 (Essen/North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
1936: volunteered for the Jäger-Bataillon Kassel then for the Infanterie-Regiment 64
1939-1940: Infanterie-Regiment 193 : campaign in Norway
1941: Kriegsschule Ohrdruf
11.1941: Unteroffizier - Infanterie-Regiment 167 : campaign in Russia
07.10.1942: Offizierslehrgang
01.10.1942: promoted to Leutnant der Reserve
12.1942: Zugführer, 1./ Grenadier-Regiment 167
12.01.1943: Kdr 1./ Grenadier-Regiment 167
15.07.1943: fightings around Orel
01.11.1943: promoted to Oberleutnant der Reserve and Führer II. / Grenadier-Regiment 184
Fall 1944: fightings on the Weichsel and the Warka bridgehead
01.10.1944: promoted to Hauptmann der Reserve
13.02.1945: Kdr Grenadier-Regiment 448 : fightings in the Tuchola Forest
01.04.1945: Kdr Füsilier-Bataillons der RAD-Division "Friedrich Ludwig Jahn"
01.05.1945: promoted to Major der Reserve
09.05.1945: broke through the encirclement of Berlin and then US POW
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Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- December 22nd, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- July 10th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Leutnant der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- Führer 1. / Grenadier-Regiment 167 / 86.Infanterie-Division / XXXXI.Panzer-Korps / 9.Armee / Heeresgruppe Mitte
- Awarded on:
- August 4th, 1943
1927th Award.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Hauptmann der Reserve (Captain of Reserves)
- Unit:
- II. / Grenadier-Regiment 184 / 84.Infanterie-Division
- Awarded on:
- December 7th, 1944
Award 666/42.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Hauptmann der Reserve (Captain of Reserves)
- Unit:
- Führer Grenadier-Regiment 448 / 251.Infanterie-Division / XXVII.Armee-Korps / 2.Armee / Heeresgruppe Weichsel
- Awarded on:
- March 16th, 1945
786th Awarded.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1944
Sources
- Photo 1: Wehrkundearchiv
- Photo: Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv
- - THOMAS, FRANZ & WEGMANN, GÜNTER, Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945, Biblio-Verlag, 1997.
- Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Kwasny A., Kwasny G., Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945 (CD), Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv, Lage-Waddenhausen, 2001
- Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
- Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X
- Meyer-Detring, W., Die 137. Infanterie-Division im Mittelabschnitt der Ostfront, Nebel Verlag GmbH, Eggolsheim, Deutschland, 2006
- Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945
- Lexikon der Wehrmacht -
- http://www.ritterkreuztraeger.info/rkel/j/EL786Jaeger.pdf
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