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Becker, Helmuth (SS-Totenkopf-Division)
- Date of birth:
- August 12th, 1902 (Alt-Ruppin/Brandenburg, Germany)
- Date of death:
- February 28th, 1953 (POW camp Sverdlovsk/Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union)
- Nationality:
- German (1933-1945, German Reich)
Biography
In service from January 1st 1934. Last achieved rank was SS-Brigadeführer.
For sabotage killed as Soviet prisoner of war.
NSDAP-Nr: 1 592 593;
SS-Nr: 113 174.
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Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- May 24th, 1940
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- June 22nd, 1940
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Standartenführer (Colonel)
- Unit:
- SS-Totenkopf-Infanterie-Regiment 3, SS-Division Totenkopf, Waffen-SS
- Awarded on:
- September 26th, 1942
Award 191/9.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Standartenführer (Colonel)
- Unit:
- Kommandeur, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Theodor Eicke", SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Totenkopf", Waffen-SS
- Awarded on:
- September 7th, 1943
Preliminary document dated on September 20th 1943.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Oberführer
- Unit:
- Kommandeur, 3. SS Panzer-Division "Totenkopf", Waffen-SS
- Awarded on:
- September 21st, 1944
595th Award.
Submitted on September 9th 1944.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- February 1st, 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)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Sources
- Photo 1: Public Domain
- Photo: Public Domain
- - FEDERL, CH., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Panzerdivisionen 1939-1945, VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, 2000.
- PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
- Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Kwasny A., Kwasny G., Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945 (CD), Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv, Lage-Waddenhausen, 2001
- Axis Biographical Research
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