Weber, Wilhelm 'der Zyklon' 'Willi' (Waffen SS)
- Date of birth:
- March 19th, 1918 (Pivitsheide-Detmold/Lippe, Germany)
- Date of death:
- March 2nd, 1980 (Bensheim/Hesse, Germany)
- Service number:
- SS-Nr.: 317.272 // NSDAP-Nr.:
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
Promotions:
00.00.1937: RAD-Truppführer
00.00.1939: SS-Rottenführer
00.00.1940: SS-Unterscharführer
00.07.1941: SS-Oberscharführer
10.03.1943: SS-Untersturmführer der Reserve
09.11.1944: SS-Obersturmführer der Reserve
00.04.1945: SS-Hauptsturmführer der Reserve
Career:
00.00.1932-01.05.1937: Hitlerjugend
00.00.1937: RAD-Truppführer, RAD
01.05.1937: joined the SS
00.09.1939: 15. Sturm, SS-Standarte "Germania", SS-VT - campaign in Poland
00.05.1940: campaign in the West
00.11.1940: 15. Kompanie, SS-Regiment "Germania", SS-Division "Wiking"
00.06.1941: SS-Oscha, Zugführer, 15. Kompanie, SS-Infanterie-Regiment "Germania", SS-Division "Wiking" - campaign in Russia
08.06.1942-08.12.1942: SS-Oscha, SS-Junker, 8. Kriegs-Junker-Lehrgang, SS-Junkerschule Braunschweig
10.03.1943: SS-Ustuf, Taktiklehrer, SS-Junkerschule Braunschweig
00.00.1943: SS-Ustuf, SS-Panzeraufklärungs-Ersatz-Abteilung
01.10.1944: SS-Ustuf, SS-Panzer-Aufklarungs-Abteilung 2, 2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich"
28.10.1944: SS-Ustuf, Führer, Stabskompanie, 33. Waffen-Division der SS 'Charlemagne
25.02.1945: SS-Ostuf, Führer, Wach und Ausbildungskompanie, 33. Waffen-Division der SS 'Charlemagne', Elsenau, Pomerania
29.04.1945: SS-Ostuf, Divisions-Kampfschule, 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS „Charlemagne", WIA for the 6th time in Berlin after having destroyed his 13th tank in close-combat and evacuated to a Lazarett in the Reichskanzlei
Panzerknacker credited with a total of 13 tank kills in close-combat
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Hitlerjugend Ehrenzeichen
- Awarded on:
- February 1934
- Awarded on:
- 1940
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Unit:
- 15. Sturm, SS-Standarte "Germania", SS-Division, SS-Verfügungstruppe
- Awarded on:
- November 1939
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
- Unit:
- Zugführer, 15. Kompanie, SS-Infanterie-Regiment "Germania", SS-Division "Wiking"
- Awarded on:
- October 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
- Unit:
- Zugführer, 15. Kompanie, SS-Infanterie-Regiment "Germania", SS-Division "Wiking"
- Awarded on:
- 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
- Unit:
- Zugführer, 15. Kompanie, SS-Infanterie-Regiment "Germania", SS-Division "Wiking"
- Awarded on:
- 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
- Unit:
- Zugführer, 15. Kompanie, SS-Infanterie-Regiment "Germania", SS-Division "Wiking"
- Awarded on:
- 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
- Unit:
- Zugführer, 15. Kompanie, SS-Infanterie-Regiment "Germania", SS-Division "Wiking"
- Awarded on:
- August 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Obersturmführer der Reserve (1st Lieutenant of Reserves)
- Unit:
- 33.(französische Nr. 1)SS-Grenadier-Division "Charlemagne"
- Awarded on:
- 1945
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Obersturmführer der Reserve (1st Lieutenant of Reserves)
- Awarded on:
- 1945
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Obersturmführer der Reserve (1st Lieutenant of Reserves)
- Unit:
- Führer, Panzerjagdkommando, Division-Kampfschule, 33.(franzosiche) SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division "Charlemagne"
- Awarded on:
- April 29th, 1945
Decorations awarded by SS-Brigadeführer Mohnke during the battle round the Reichskanzlerei Bunker between 20th and 30th April 1945. Awardings based on the research of the Ordensgemeinschaft der Ritterkreuzträger. No avidend available in the Bundesarchiv.
Sources
- Photo 1:
- - 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
- Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945
- Division Charlemagne.net
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