Date of birth:

June 16th, 1906 (Dortmund, Germany)

Date of death:

August 10th, 1991 (Munich, Germany)

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

1. April 1925: Fahnenjunker - 15. (Preuß.) Reiter-Regiment
1. November 1925: promoted to Unteroffizier
1. September 1927: promoted to Fähnrich
23. May 1929: promoted to Leutnant
October 1931: Bereit-Offizier - Kavallerie-Schule
1. April 1933: promoted to Oberleutnant
1. October 1933: Ordonnanzoffizier - Stab - 15. (Preuß.) Reiter-Regiment
1. October 1934: Adjutant - Stab - 15. (Preuß.) Reiter-Regiment (renamed Kavallerie-Regiment 15)
20. April 1936: promoted to Rittmeister
12. October 1937: Chef - 3. Schwadron - Kavallerie-Regiment 13
1. February 1939: Adjutant - Heeres-Reit- und Fahrschule - Hannover
1939-1940: Adjutant - Divisionsstab - 96. Infanterie-Division
22. December 1939: Adjutant - OKH - Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres
22. February 1941: promoted to Major
22. September 1941: 1. Kavallerie-Division
12. February 1942: Führer - Aufklärungs-Abteilung 22 after Oberstleutnant Oskar von Boddien was KIA in Crimea
17. February 1942: Kommandeur - Aufklärungs-Abteilung 22
15. July 1942: promoted to Oberstleutnant
29. December 1942: Adjutant - Stab - LV. Armeekorps
24. August 1943: Führerreserve des OKH
8. January 1944: Kommandeur - Grenadier-Regiment 220
6. March 1944: WIA to the head near the Narva River and sent to a Lazarett
End April 1944: back to the Führerreserve des OKH
20. June 1944: promoted to Oberst
27. June 1944: Oberst - appointed to the Stab - Aufklärungs- und Kavallerie-Schule
24. August 1944: Kommandeur der Aufklärungs- und Kavallerieschule - Bromberg
17. December 1944: sent to the Führer-Reserve
15. March 1945: Kommandeur - Reiter-Regiment 41
10. May 1945: British POW

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant-colonel)

Unit:

Kommandeur Grenadier-Regiment 220 / 58. Infanterie-Division

Awarded on:

February 10th, 1944

Awarded the Knight’s Cross for repulsing the attacks of three Soviet Guards divisions with his Grenadier-Regiment in the area northwest of Newel. During this attack two Soviet battalions thrust through to his command post over the icy Sswiblo lake. In response Oberstleutnant Canstein threw back the enemy back while fighting at the head of a handful of messengers, clerks and signals troops.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

May 14th, 1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

October 23rd, 1941

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

July 15th, 1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

December 10th, 1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

March 31st, 1943

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

August 27th, 1927

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

October 2nd, 1936

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

April 1st, 1937

• Photo: Knight's Cross Holders Identification - Axis History Forum
  
• - THOMAS, FRANZ & WEGMANN, GÜNTER, Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht 1939-1945, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, 1998.
  - Oberst Ulrich von Canstein.
  - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht - Lexikon der Wehrmacht -