Wachter, Josef
- Date of birth:
- May 22nd, 1912 (Kaltenberg/Bavaria, Germany)
- Nationality:
- German (1933-1945, Third Reich)
Biography
Promotions:
?: SS-Oberscharführer.
Career:
November 11th, 1939: MG-Schütze 1;
June 1st, 1940: stellvertretender Gruppenführer;
April 1st, 1941: Gruppenführer;
December 1st, 1943: Zugführer, 7. Kompanie, SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 49.
Josef Wachter was recommended to received the DKiG by the regimentskommandeur SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 49 on October 20th, 1944.l The documentation was forwarded by the office of the Reichsführer SS to the 1. Staffel, P5, PA, OKH on November 11th, 1944. Of a final awarding there are no details known for now.
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Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Unit:
- stellvertretender Gruppenführer
- Awarded on:
- November 13th, 1940
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Unit:
- Gruppenführer
- Awarded on:
- March 24th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Unit:
- Gruppenführer
- Awarded on:
- August 14th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Unit:
- Gruppenführer
- Awarded on:
- April 12th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Unit:
- Zugführer, 7. Kompanie, II. Bataillon, SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 49, 4. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Brigade "Nederland", Waffen-SS
- Awarded on:
- April 20th, 1944
Sources
- - Vorschlag für die verleihung des Deutschen Kreuzes in Gold
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