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Stix, Otto (Waffen SS)

Date of birth:
October 16th, 1919 (Vienna, Austria)
Date of death:
April 22nd, 1945 (Brno)
Buried on:
German War Graves Brno
Grave: UNK.
Service number:
SS-Nr.: 470.255 // NSDAP-Nr.: 6.336.448
Nationality:
Austrian

Biography

00.00.1934-00.00.1937: Hitlerjugend
00.00.1937: entered the NSDAP
01.05.1938: entered the SS-VT, SS-Regiment "Der Führer"
00.10.1939: SS-Division "Reich"
22.10.1943: NKSiG
00.09.1943-00.06.1944: Chef, 12. Kompanie, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 "Der Führer"
09.11.1943: promoted to SS-Untersturmführer der Reserve
01.06.1944: DKiG
00.07.1944: reported MIA in Normandy
00.00.1944: according to M. Yerger returned to the division
00.10.1944: transferred to the 10. SS-Panzer-Division "Frundsberg"
22.04.1945: KIA near Brno

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
July 25th, 1940
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
March 15th, 1943
Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
Unit:
Zugführer, 12.(gp.) Kompanie, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 'Der Führer', 2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich"
Awarded on:
October 22nd, 1943
Nahkampfspange in Gold
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
Unit:
Zugführer, 12.(gp.) Kompanie, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 'Der Führer', 2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich"
Awarded on:
June 1st, 1944
Deutsches Kreuz in Gold

Sources

  • - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht.
    - Dörr M., Die träger der Nahkampfspange in Gold, Heer- Luftwaffe- Waffen-SS 1943-1945, Biblio Verlag Bisendorf, 2006.

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