Hertel, Rüdiger
- Date of birth:
- August 26th, 1919 (Bromberg/Posen, Germany)
- Date of death:
- August 27th, 1995 (Bergneustadt/North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
- Nationality:
- German
Biography
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Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- Zugführer 11. / Schützen-Regiment 33 / 4.Panzer Division
- Awarded on:
- May 25th, 1940
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- Führer 3. / Schützen-Regiment 33 / 4.Panzer Division
- Awarded on:
- December 17th, 1940
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- Kompaniechef 3. / Schützen-Regiment 33 / 4.Panzer-Division
- Awarded on:
- January 2nd, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- Adjutant I. / Schützen-Regiments 33 / 4.Panzer Division
- Awarded on:
- May 10th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Hauptmann (Captain)
- Unit:
- Stab, Panzergrenadier-Regiment 33, 4. Panzer-Division, Heer
- Awarded on:
- August 12th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Hauptmann (Captain)
- Unit:
- Adjutant Panzergrenadier-Regiment 33 / 4.Panzer-Division
- Awarded on:
- November 7th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Hauptmann (Captain)
- Unit:
- Stab / Panzergrenadier-Regiment 33 / 4.Panzer-Division
- Awarded on:
- July 7th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Hauptmann (Captain)
- Unit:
- I. Bataillon, Panzergrenadier-Regiment 12, 4. Panzer-Division, Heer
- Awarded on:
- October 20th, 1944
Awarded for his six wounds inflicted on the 5th of March 1942, 1st of April 1942, 8th of July 1943, 3rd of September 1944, 17th of September 1944 and the 21st of September 1944.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Hauptmann (Captain)
- Unit:
- Führer I. / Panzergrenadier-Regiment 12
- Awarded on:
- October 28th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Sources
- Photo 1: Marcel Gillen
- - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- 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
- Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X
- Berger, F., Ritterkreuzträger mit Nahkampfspange in Gold, Selbstverlag Florian Berger, Wien, Österreich, 2004
- Dörr M., Die träger der Nahkampfspange in Gold, Heer- Luftwaffe- Waffen-SS 1943-1945, Biblio Verlag Bisendorf, 2006
- Scheibert H., Die Träger Ehrenblattspange des Heeres und der Waffen-SS, Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, 1986, ISBN 978-3790902839
- Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945
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