Date of birth:

September 28th, 1921 (Schaßlowitz Castolowitz(Tschastolowitz), Česká Lípa, Czechoslovakia)

Date of death:

November 6th, 2001 (Bayerbach/Ergoldsbach, Germany)

Service number:

SS-Nr.: 400.130 // NSDAP-Nr.:

Nationality:

Austrian

00.00.1937: joined the NSDAP, Sudeten German Freikorps
00.00.1938: joined the SS-VT
00.09.1939: SS-Unterführer, 15. (Kradschützen) Kompanie, SS-Standarte 'Germania', SS-VT - campaign in Poland
00.05.1940: SS-Junker, SS-Junkerschule
10.04.1941: promoted to SS-Untersturmführer der Reserve
00.06.1941: SS-Ustuf, Zugführer, SS-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 5, SS-Division 'Wiking'
00.10.1941: SS-Ustuf, WIA 2 times and evacuated to a Lazarett
00.02.1942: transferred to the Panzerwaffe
00.02.1942: SS-Ustuf, Zugführer, SS-Panzer-Abteilung 2, 2. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 'Das Reich' - Ržev and Kharkov
09.11.1943: promoted to SS-Obersturmführer der Reserve
00.11.1943-00.00.1944: SS-Ostuf, Chef, 7. Schwadron, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5, 5. SS-Panzer-Division 'Wiking' - battle of Cherkasy, Kovel : destroyed 28 enemy cannons, one tank and 8 anti-aircraft guns thus enabling a successful breakthrough of the battle group Gille
04.05.1944: awarded the RK
00.00.1944: fightings in Poland and Hungary
00.00.1944: promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer der Reserve
00.05.1945: SS-Hstuf, escaped captivity with comrades and after a shootout with the US military reported MIA near Steiermark, Austria - settled under his stepfather's name Schneider-Kunze in Germany
00.00.1946: graduated from the University of Agriculture and Forestry
00.00.1960: government adviser for hunting

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