Date of birth:

September 20th, 1911 (Lindau/Bavaria, German Empire)

Date of death:

August 20th, 1984 (Reutlingen/Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

Service number:

SS-Nr.: 28.501 // NSDAP Nr.: 917.208

Nationality:

German

Promotions:
1938: SS-Hauptsturmführer
30.07.1942: SS-Sturmbannführer
09.11.1943: SS-Obersturmbannführer

Career:
08.01.1934-18.04.1935: SS-VT
18.04.1935-18.04.1936: SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz
20.04.1936-10.07.1937/ F.i. IV./ SS-T.V. Ostfriesland
10.07.1937- : Adjutant, VI./ 2.T.V. Brandenburg
00.04.1938-00.00.1939: Chef 6. Hundertschaft - SS-Totenkopf-Standarte 'Brandenburg'
05.-08.1940: Chef 9./ III./ SS-Totenkopf-Infanterie-Regiment 2 - SS-Totenkopf-Division
07.05.1942: Führer I./ Totenkopf-Infanterie-Regiment 1
07.1943-30.06.1944: Kdr III./ Pz.Gren.Reg. 19 - 9. SS-Pz. Div. 'Hohenstaufen'
30.01.-01.07.1944: Kdr SS-Feld-Ersatz-Bataillon 9
23.07.1944-01.1945: Kdr of the SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment ‘H’ composed of survivors from the ‘Hohenstaufen Division’ that were pulled together to one single regiment after their retreat from Normandy
05.02.-08.05.1945: Kdr SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 21 - 10 .SS-Division "Frundsberg"

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• - DöRR, M., Die Inhaber der Anerkennungsurkunde des Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres 1941-1945, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, 1993.
  - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
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