Pohl, Ortwin (Waffen SS)
- Date of birth:
- April 8th, 1920 (Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
- Date of death:
- September 2nd, 1994 (Bergisch Gladbach/Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany)
- Service number:
- SS-Nr.: 365.160 // NSDAP-Nr.:
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
SS-Hauptsturmführer der Reserve Ortwin Pohl was the son of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Oswald Ludwig Pohl (1892-1951)
Promotions:
00.09.1939: SS-Sturmmann
01.08.1940: SS-Untersturmführer der Reserve
21.06.1942: SS-Obersturmführer
20.04.1944: SS-Hauptsturmführer
Career:
01.09.1932-30.03.1938: Hitlerjugend
05.04.1938-24.10.1938: RAD
01.11.1938: joined the Waffen-SS
00.00.1941-15.11.1942: Zug-/Kompanieführer, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Deutschland", SS-Division 'Reich'
16.11.1942-14.04.1944: O.4, 2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich"
15.04.1944: Chef, 4. Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 2, 2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich"
28.07.1944: credited with 4 tank kills
30.07.1944: credited with 3 tank kills
24.12.1944-25.12.1944: credited with 4 tank kills
00.01.1945: Abteilungs-Führer Lehrgang
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Goldenes Hitlerjugend Ehrenabzeichen
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- September 5th, 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Untersturmführer der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant of Reserves)
- Unit:
- Zugführer, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 'Deutschland', SS-Division 'Reich'
- Awarded on:
- October 17th, 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Untersturmführer der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant of Reserves)
- Unit:
- Zugführer, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 'Deutschland', SS-Division 'Reich'
- Awarded on:
- February 6th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Untersturmführer der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant of Reserves)
- Unit:
- Zugführer, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 'Deutschland', SS-Division 'Reich'
- Awarded on:
- May 1st, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Obersturmführer (Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- Zugführer, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 'Deutschland', SS-Division 'Reich'
- Awarded on:
- August 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain)
- Unit:
- Kp.-Chef, 4. Kompanie, I. Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 2 "Das Reich", 2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich", Waffen-SS
- Awarded on:
- January 25th, 1945
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain)
- Unit:
- Kp.-Chef, 4. Kompanie, I. Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 2 "Das Reich", 2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich", Waffen-SS
- Awarded on:
- February 28th, 1945
Award date is handwritten on cover sheet of his DKiG Vorschlag.
According to Patzwall / Scherzer the awarding date is 10-2-1945.
Sources
- Photo 1:
- Photo 2:
- Photo 3:
- Photo: SS-Hauptsturmführer: the son of Oswald Pohl - Axis History Forum
- - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
- Mark C. Yerger, German Cross in Gold, Holders of the SS and Police, Volume 2, "Das Reich": Karl-Heinz Lorenz to Herbert Zimmermann, R. James Bender
- "For Multiple Deeds of Exceptional Bravery" SS & Police Recipients of the War Order of the German Cross 1941-1945 Volume II by Michael D. Miller
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