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Blond, Friedrich "Friedel" (Waffen SS)

Date of birth:
April 29th, 1920 (Braunau, Austria)
Date of death:
May 24th, 2009 (Wolfurt, Austria)
Service number:
SS-Nr.: // NSDAP-Nr.:
Nationality:
Austrian (1938-1945, Reichsgau)

Biography

00.00.1938: SS-Standarte 'Deutschland'
00.09.1939: campaign in Poland
00.05.1940: campaign in France
00.04.1941: campaign in the Balkans - Operation Marita
00.06.1941: Barbarossa
00.07.1944: SS-Junkerschule Posen-Treskau
SS-Untersturmführer, Kommandeur, 12. Kompanie, SS-Panzergrenadier-Ausbildungs- und Ersatz-Bataillon 1 "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler", Hagen
00.04.1945: fightings in Berlin with 23. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division 'Nederland'
28.04.1945: WIA for the 4th time
00.00.1956: Oberst, Austrian Army

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
1942
Medaille
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
SS-Untersturmführer (2nd Lieutenant)
Unit:
Kommandeur, 12. Kompanie, SS-Panzergrenadier-Ausbildungs- und Ersatz-Bataillon 1 "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"
Awarded on:
April 28th, 1945

Awarding in the Halbe pocket and directly after the outbreak form that, by SS-Brigadeführer Wagner with approval of SS-Gruppenführer / Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Kleinheisterkamp. Although there is any evidence at hand,the Bundesarchiv shows no proof.
Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

Sources

  • Photo 1: Willi Schumacher Collection
  • - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
    - Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
    - Schneider J.W., Their Honor was Loyalty!, R. James Bender Publishing, 1977
    - Ritterkreuz Archiv II/2009, Veit Scherzer, Ranis, Juni 2009, ISSN 1866-4709

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