Heubeck, Konrad (Waffen SS)

Date of birth:: April 22nd, 1918 (Alberndorf/Ansbach, Germany)
Date of death:: September 1st, 1987 (Celle, Germany)
Service number:: SS-Nr.: // NSDAP-Nr.:
Nationality:: German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

00.11.1943: SS-Hscha. Aufkl.zug, I./ SS-Pz.Rgt.1
00.06.1944: SS-Hscha. 1./ SS-Pz.Rgt.1 LAH
09.11.1944: promoted to SS-Untersturmführer
00.09.1945: SS-Ustuf., 1./ SS-Pz.Rgt.1, LAH
23.03.1945: WIA at Veszprem, lost a leg
Credited with more than 52 tanks destroyed

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Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: June 30th, 1940

Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen in Bronze

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)

Medaille "Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42" (Ostmedaille)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)

Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: September 1st, 1942

Panzerkampfabzeichen (ohne Zahl)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)

Deutsches Kreuz in Gold

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: SS-Hauptscharführer (Sergeant Major)
Unit:: Zugführer, 1. (s.) Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 1, 1. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 'LSSAH'
Awarded on:: June 4th, 1944

Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: SS-Untersturmführer (2nd Lieutenant)
Unit:: Führer, 1. Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 1 "LSSAH"
Awarded on:: April 17th, 1945

During urban combat in the Hungarian town of Varpalota SS-Untersturmführer Heubeck destroyed 11 Soviet IS-2 tanks with his Panther. In doing so he raised his total of destroyed enemy armour to 52. He would be awarded the Knight’s Cross in recognition of this feat.

Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Gold

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: March 1945

WIA 23.03.1945

Sources

Photo 1: Known to STIWOT
- WEGMANN, GÜNTER, Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht 1939-1945, Biblio-Verlag, 2009.
- Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht
- Scheibert H., Die Träger des Deutschen Kreuzes in Gold (Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS) und Deutschen Kreuzes in Silber (Heer, Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS)