Bauer, Helmut (SS-Pz-Reg.5 "Wiking")

Date of birth:: February 2nd, 1920 (Mittelschefflenz/Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Date of death:: November 30th, 1967 (Wertheim am Main/Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Service number:: SS-Nr.: 468.175 // NSDAP-Nr.:
Nationality:: German

Biography

In service from November 1st 1938.

Promotions:
1938: SS-Mann
01.06.1943: SS-Oberscharführer
1943: SS-Untersturmführer
1944: SS-Obersturmführer

Career:
01.11.1938: entered 17./ SS-Regiment "Deutschland" in Ellwangen
01.09.1939-10.05.1940: Kradschützen-Kompanie der SS-Aufklärungsabteilung zbV - Campaign in Poland and France
1940-1941: Aufklärungs-Abteilung "Germania" then Aufklärungs-Abteilung "Wiking"
Summer 1942: Zugführer - Aufklärungszug - 3./ SS-Panzer-Abteilung 5 equipped with Panzer II
02.1943: Zugführer - 3./ SS-Panzer-Regiment 5, equipped with Panzer IV
Beginning 1944: severely WIA
Summer 1944: Abteilungsadjutant and later Kompanieführer - SS-Panzerregiment 5 "Wiking"
1945: Führer der Panzergruppe 'Bauer' - 5. SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking"

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Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: July 27th, 1941

Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: March 7th, 1943

Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
Unit:: Zugführer, 3. Kompanie, II. Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5 "Wiking", 5. SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking", Waffen-SS
Awarded on:: September 12th, 1943

Submitted on September 13th 1943.
Preliminary document dated on September 21st 1943.