Date of birth:

April 24th, 1911 (Graz/Steiermark, Austria)

Date of death:

April 1st, 1999 (Vienna, Austria)

Nationality:

Austrian (1938-1945, Reichsgau)

Promotions:
1936: Leutnant;
?: Hauptmann;
January 1st, 1943: Major;
June 1st, 1944: Oberstleutnant;
January 1st, 1945: Oberst.

Career:
1930: Alpenjäger-Regiment 11;
August 1938: Schützen-Regiment 12;
1942: Kommandeur, Kradschützen-Bataillon 61;
July 20th, 1944: Kommandeur Panzergrenadier-Lehr-Regiment;
April 1st, 1945: Kommandeur Panzer-Lehrdivision.

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

November 3rd, 1939

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

August 1st, 1940

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Hauptmann (Captain)

Unit:

Kommandeur, Kradschützen-Bataillon 61, 11. Panzer-Division, Heer

Awarded on:

September 20th, 1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

October 5th, 1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Major

Unit:

Kommandeur, Kradschützen-Bataillon 61, 11. Panzer-Division, Heer

Awarded on:

January 25th, 1943

Awarded for a number of wartime actions, the most important of which took place on the 28.08.1942 during a major Soviet armoured attack southwest of Kaluga. In the previous 12 days Hauser’s Bataillon had fended off a total of 38 hostile attacks, in which a total of 14 penetrations were eliminated in counterthrusts personally led by Hauser himself. On this particular day the German frontline was again held onto, and a total of 45 Soviet tanks were destroyed in this sector.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant-colonel)

Unit:

Kommandeur, Panzergrenadier-Lehr-Regiment 901, Panzer-Lehr-Division, Heer

Awarded on:

October 28th, 1944

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

• - THOMAS, FRANZ & WEGMANN, GÜNTER, Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945, Biblio-Verlag, 1997.
  - Lexikon der Wehrmacht