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Käding, Gerhard (Grenadier-Regiment 156)

Date of birth:
February 12th, 1918 (Schwennenz/Pommerania, Germany)
Date of death:
December 6th, 1943 (north of Lissaja-Balza, Ukraine, Soviet Union)
Buried on:
Soviet War Cemetery Kirovohrad
Plot: 13. Row: 41. Grave: 2891.
Nationality:
German

Biography

06.12.1943: Oberleutnant Gerhard Käding was KIA 1km North of Lissaja-Balza, Ukraine and buried in Kropyvnytskyi/Kirovohrad

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Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Oberleutnant der Reserve (1st Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit:
Chef, 12. Kompanie, Grenadier-Regiment 156 (motorisiert), 16. Panzergrenadier-Division
Awarded on:
January 27th, 1944
posthumously awarded
Deutsches Kreuz in Gold

Sources

  • Photo 1: Danny Käding
  • - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
    - 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

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