Date of birth:

August 7th, 1912 (Mannheim/Baden, Germany)

Date of death:

July 6th, 1984 (Tübingen/Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

Service number:

SS-Nr.: 98.248 // NSDAP-Nr.: 3.266.024

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

SS-Obersturmbannführer der Waffen-SS
und Oberstleutnant der Schutzpolizei Karl-Heinz Felix Bühler

Promotions:
01.10.1936: Wachtmeister und Offiziersanwärter der Schutzpolizei
01.10.1936: Gefreiter der Reserve
15.08.1937: Unteroffizier der Reserve
01.09.1937: Wachtmeister der Reserve
21.03.1938: SS-Untersturmführer der Reserve
01.04.1938: Leutnant der Schutzpolizei
01.04.1939: Leutnant der Reserve
01.08.1939: Oberleutnant der Schutzpolizei
01.10.1939: Oberleutnant der Reserve
10.09.1939: SS-Obersturmführer der Reserve
09.11.1941: SS-Hauptsturmführer der Reserve - RDA 09.11.1939
27.12.1941: Hauptmann der Schutzpolizei
01.04.1942: SS-Hauptsturmführer der Waffen-SS
21.06.1943: SS-Sturmbannführer der Waffen-SS und Major der Schutzpolizei
01.05.1945: SS-Obersturmbannführer der Waffen-SS und Oberstleutnant der Schutzpolizei

Career:
27.12.1932: joined the SS
00.00.1933: joined the NSDAP
29.04.1933-31.07.1933: RAD
01.10.1935: 8. Batterie, Artillerie-Regiment 7, Augsburg
01.10.1936: joined the Schutzpolizei, assigned to 1. Hundertschaft, Kommando der Schutzpolizei, München
01.11.1936: Polizeioffizierschule, Fürstenfeldbruck
15.07.1937: 8. Batterie, Artillerie-Regiment 27, Augsburg
21.03.1938: Stammabteilung Süd
01.04.1938: Adjutant, Kommandeur der Schutzpolizei, Gotha / Thüringen
15.08.1938: 6. Batterie, Artillerie-Regiment 69, Landsberg am Lech
01.03.1939: Stammabteilung Fulda-Werra / 14
15.09.1939: joined the SS-Verfügungstruppe, assigned to SS-Artillerie-Ausbildungs- und Ersatz-Regiment Prag
01.10.1939: Batterieführer, SS-Artillerie-Ersatz-Abteilung, Berlin-Lichterfelde
01.11.1939: Batterieoffizier, Beobachter-Offizier, 4. Batterie, SS-Artillerie-Regiment 1, SS-Verfügungstruppe
23.05.1940: Batterieführer, SS-Artillerie-Regiment 4, 4. SS-Polizei-Division
01.08.1940: Batteriechefs-Lehrgang, Artillerie-Schule, Jüterbog
15.11.1940: Chef, 8. Batterie, SS-Artillerie-Regiment 5, 5. SS-Division "Wiking"
01.04.1942: transferred to the Waffen-SS
23.06.1942: Führer, 13. Batterie, IV. Abteilung, SS-Artillerie-Regiment 5, 5. SS-Panzer-Division 'Wiking'
27.08.1942: Führer, III. Abteilung, SS-Artillerie-Regiment 5, 5. SS-Panzer-Division 'Wiking'
02.10.1942: WIA to the head and the left shoulder
10.10.1943: WIA to the left shoulder
00.00.1944: Führer, II. Abteilung, SS-Artillerie-Regiment 5, 5. SS-Panzer-Division 'Wiking'
20.01.1945: WIA to the head and the right eardrum
25.03.1945: Kdr, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 9 'Germania', 5. SS-Panzer-Division 'Wiking'
00.05.1945: US POW
00.00.1948: released

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Nr. 74.826

Awarded on:

February 1934

Awarded on:

December 1st, 1938

Awarded on:

December 1st, 1938

Awarded on:

December 1938

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

June 4th, 1940

Date per Schneider. Document supplied by Dr. Bühler gives 15-6-1941. Scherzer gives 21-6-1940.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

July 25th, 1941

Date per Scherzer and Schneider. Document supplied by Dr. Bühler gives 10-8-1941.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

SS-Hauptsturmführer der Reserve (Captain of Reserves)

Unit:

Chef, 8. Batterie, SS-Polizei-Artillerie-Regiment, 4. SS-Polizei-Division

Awarded on:

March 14th, 1942

Document supplied by Bühler’s son, Dr. Klaus-Ulrich Bühler gives 10.04.1942; a document in his file gives 25.03.1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

April 15th, 1942

Date per document in his SS file. Document supplied by Dr. Bühler gives 15-3-1942. Scherzer gives 14-5-1942.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

September 1st, 1942

Date per document in his SS file. Document supplied by Dr. Bühler gives 9-11-1942.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

October 2nd, 1942

WIA 02.10.1942

Date per document in his SS file. Document supplied by Dr. Bühler gives 10-10-1942.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

1944

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

October 1st, 1944

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

SS-Sturmbannführer (Major)

Unit:

Kommandeur, II. Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 5, 5. SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking", IV. SS-Panzer-Korps

Awarded on:

December 25th, 1944

based on a downgraded recommendation for award of the Ehrenblatt-Spange des Heeres dated 12.11.1944 and signed by Rgt. Fhr. Hans Bünning; endorsed on 14.11.1944 by Div. Fhr. Karl Ullrich; approved on 18.11.1944 by Korps Kom. Gen. Herbert-Otto Gille

4961st Award.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

January 20th, 1945

WIA 02.10.1942 + 10.10.1943 + 20.01.1945

Date per document in his SS file.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

May 1st, 1945

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-colonel)

Unit:

Kommandeur, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 9 "Germania", 5. SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking", Waffen-SS

Awarded on:

May 6th, 1945

date per Veit Scherzer; Jost Schneider gives “8.5.1945”; A document supplied by Dr. Klaus-Ulrich Bühler gives 01.05.1945, and E.G. Krätschmer gives that date in his book

No evidence of the award to Karl-Heinz Bühler can be found in the German Federal Archives. The award was presumably awarded by SS-Oberstgruppenführer Sepp Dietrich, which would make it an unlawful presentation. The Order Commission of the OdR processed this case in 1977 and decided: "Knight's Cross no, 1 May 1945". The case Bühler was again processed in the fall of 1983. Whether or not additional or new evidence materialized remains unknown. The Order Commission decided this time: Knight's Cross yes, 8 May 1945. Von Seemen lists him on 7 May 1945, Krätschmer states 1 May 1945. Fellgiebel later re-dated the award on 6 May 1945. It remains subject to speculation why this was done. Bühler was a member of the OdR.

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• - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
  - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
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