Sporck, Casper Antoine
- Date of birth:
- August 10th, 1922 (Heerlen, the Netherlands)
- Date of death:
- April 8th, 1945 (Reserve-Lazarett Bayreuth, Germany)
- Buried on:
- German War Graves Friedhof Sankt Georgen
Grave: 413. - Nationality:
- Dutch
Biography
Kaspar / Casper Antoine Sporck
Promotions:
01.09.1942: SS-Sturmmann
31.12.1943: SS-Rottenführer
01.05.1944: SS-Unterscharführer
Career:
26.04.1941: joined the Waffen SS
05.04.1942: WIA near Veliky Novgorod and evacuated to a Lazarett
13.07.1942-00.10.1942: sent to Bussum, Holland
commander of a Sdkfz 251/9 half-track Schützenpanzerwagen (armored personnel carrier) equipped with a 75 mm L/24 low velocity gun, nicknamed "Stummel"
00.01.1944: fightings in Gubanizy
31.01.1944: fightings in Kingisepp–Gdov - Battle for Narva Bridgehead
00.05.1944: SS-Unterscharführer, Geschützführer, 5.(schwere) Kompanie, SS-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 11, 11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division "Nordland
06.03.1945: WIA at the Stettin Bridgehead
08.04.1945: DOW in the Reserve-Lazarett in Bayreuth
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WA-Sportinsigne
Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Schwarz
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Sturmman (Private 1st Class)
- Awarded on:
- July 10th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Sturmman (Private 1st Class)
- Awarded on:
- August 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS- Rottenführer (Corporal)
- Awarded on:
- January 30th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS- Rottenführer (Corporal)
- Awarded on:
- February 7th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS- Rottenführer (Corporal)
- Awarded on:
- April 20th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Unterscharführer (Sergeant)
- Unit:
- Geschützführer, 5. schwere Schwadron, SS-Freiwilligen-Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 11, 11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division "Nordland", III.(germanische) SS-Panzer-Korps, Heeresgruppe Nord
- Awarded on:
- October 23rd, 1944
based on a recommendation dated 03.09.1944 and signed by Abt. Kdr. Rudolf Saalbach ; proposal endorsed on 05.10.1944 by Div. Kdr. Joachim Ziegler and approved on 08.10.1944 by Korps Kom. Gen. Felix Steiner
Sources
- Photo 1:
- Photo 2:
- Photo: Wilco Vermeer
- - das-ritterkreuz.de
- Krätschmer E.G., Die Ritterkreuzträger des Waffen-SS
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