Westphalen zu Fürstenberg, Graf von, Hermenegild
- Date of birth:
- March 10th, 1909 (Lüdingshausen/Westfalia, Germany)
- Date of death:
- May 28th, 1944 (Reval/Estonian SSR, USSR)
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
He died at SS-Korpslazarett 1/103 in Reval of wounds sustained in fighting around the Kreenholm bridge on 9-4-1944. Gravesite: Kriegsgräberstätte in Tallin-Maarjamäe, Estonia.
NSDAP-Nr. 992582 (joined 1-4-1932).
SS-Nr. 44597 (joined 1-10-1932).
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Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-colonel)
- Unit:
- Kommandeur, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 24 "Danmark", 11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division "Nordland", Waffen-SS
- Awarded on:
- April 23rd, 1944
Vorschlag dated 23-3-1944 and signed by Div.-Kdr. Fritz von Scholz.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- May 28th, 1940
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- September 28th, 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- September 28th, 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Sources
- - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
- "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
- Death notice
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