Bujak, Hans

Date of birth:: February 5th, 1914 (Gogolin/Silesia, Germany)
Date of death:: March 20th, 1990 (Stuttgart/Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Nationality:: German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

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Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Feldwebel der Reserve
Unit:: Zugführer 10. / Grenadier-Regiment 7 / 252.Infanterie-Division
Awarded on:: August 27th, 1944

On the 15.07.1944 the Russians succeeded in breaking into the frontline of the 252. Infanterie-Division in a forest north of Lake Luksias. An immediate counterthrust to seal off this penetration failed, and in the process the commander of the III./Grenadier-Regiment 7 (Hauptmann Gräbsch) fell in battle.

During this time Bujak’s Zug (consisting of 21 men) had the mission of holding a hill and a defile between lakes. In the late afternoon of this day the Soviets penetrated between Bujak’s Zug and the lake, and they went on to firmly establish themselves in a forest along the Division’s retreat route. Nonetheless Bujak and his men held their important position. During the evening of the same day a renewed German counterattack with Sturmgeschütz support managed to throw the enemy out of the forest. As the enemy was falling back Bujak struck their flank with a part of his Zug, and by doing so he significantly contributed to the ability of the German forces in this area to definitively resolve this dangerous situation and recapture the old frontline northeast of Lake Luksias.

Bujak would later be awarded the Knight’s Cross for his outstanding achievements on this day.