Hartrampf, Kurt (Waffen SS)

Date of birth:: April 29th, 1906 (Haynau/Goldberg (Lower Silesia), Germany)
Date of death:: March 23rd, 1983 (Hilden (Rhineland), Germany)
Service number:: SS-Nr.: 327.352 // NSDAP-Nr.:
Nationality:: German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

01.03.1927: 3. Schwadron, Reiter-Regiment 8, Militsch
01.06.1931: 3. Schwadron, Reiter-Regiment 8, Brieg
05.08.1934: Unteroffizier, Stab, Kraftfahrlehrkommando Zossen
00.09.1935: Panzer-Regiment 35, Wünsdorf
00.10.1937-12.09.1938: Heeresfachschule für Verwaltung
00.00.1938: joined the SS-Totenkopfstandarte "Brandenburg"
30.01.1939: promoted to SS-Untersturmführer
00.02.1939: SS-Ustuf, Stab, SS-Heimwehr Danzig
01.05.1939: promoted to SS-Obersturmführer, 1. Schwadron, SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 3, SS-Totenkopf-Division
01.09.1939-05.09.1939: SS-Ostuf, Polish campaign, his unit captured the Danzig Post Office after fifteen hours of combat
06.09.1939-14.09.1939: SS-Ostuf, combat at Gdynia
15.09.1939-19.09.1939: SS-Ostuf, combat at Oxhöft
16.10.1939: promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer
17.10.1939: SS-Hstuf, Chef, 14. Panzerjäger Kompanie, SS-Totenkopf-Infanterie-Regiment 2, SS-Totenkopf-Division
17.01.1940: SS-Hstuf, stellvertretender Ia, SS-Totenkopf-Division
19.05.1940: SS-Hstuf, Chef, 1. Schwadron, SS-Totenkopf-Panzerjäger-Abteilung, SS-Totenkopf-Division - deployed in France - Catillon, le Cateau, Cambrai
21.05.1940: SS-Hstuf, breakthrough at Arras - Bassée Canal at Béthune
28.05.1940: SS-Hstuf, fighting at Armentiéres and Bailleul
31.05.1940: SS-Hstuf, battle for Dunkirk - Authie estuary to Gravelines
13.06.1940: SS-Hstuf, breakthrough to the Seine, the Loire then Lyon
26.06.1940: SS-Hstuf, Southwest France to the Spanish border
00.07.1941: SS-Hstuf, Chef, 14. Panzerjäger Kompanie, III. Battalion, SS-Totenkopf-Infanterie-Regiment 3, SS-Totenkopf-Division
26.11.1941: SS-Hstuf, SS-Kraftfahr-Ersatz-Bataillon, SS-Totenkopf-Infanterie-Regiment 3
01.02.1942: SS-Hstuf, Kdr, SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 'Nord', SS-Gebirgsdivision "Nord"
00.07.1942: SS-Hstuf, Kdr, Stab, SS-Panzer-Ersatz-Abteilung
00.10.1942: SS-Hstuf, Bataillons-Komandeur-Lehrgang, Wünsdorf
18.12.1942: SS-Hstuf, Kdr, SS-Panzerjäger-Ersatz-Abteilung, the Netherlands
04.01.1943-23.01.1943: SS-Hstuf, 5. Lehrgang, Schnelltruppenschule, Paris
09.01.1943: SS-Hstuf, SS-Panzer-Ersatz-Abteilung II
30.01.1943: promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer
11.03.1943: SS-Stubaf, Kdr, II. Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 10, 10. SS-Panzer-Division 'Frundsberg' - France
20.12.1943: SS-Stubaf, Führerreserve, SS-FHA
07.03.1944-20.08.1944: SS-Stubaf, Kdr, schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 103, III. SS-Panzer-Korps
07.06.1944-21.06.1944: SS-Stubaf, Lehrgang, SS-Kraftfahrtechnische Lehranstalt Wien
30.06.1944: promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer
20.08.1944: SS-Ostubaf, Kdr, schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 102 - Normandy
00.09.1944: SS-Ostubaf, Kdr, schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 502 after renaming, Sennelager
00.02.1945: SS-Ostubaf, Kdr, SS-Pionierschule Hradischko
00.02.1945: SS-Ostubaf, fightings on the Oder River
11.03.1945: SS-Ostubaf, Kdr, schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 502, Heeresgruppe Weichsel - Stettin
22.03.1945: SS-Ostubaf, relief of Kustrin
31.03.1945: SS-Ostubaf, withdrawn to Seelow to refit
27.04.1945: SS-Ostubaf, breakout from the Halbe Pocket
30.04.1945: SS-Ostubaf, Cottbus-Berlin Autobahn - Battle of Berlin, encircled and destroyed in the Halbe Pocket
01.05.1945: SS-Ostubaf, Wunsdorf-Baruth road - linked up with the foremost units of general Wenck’s XII. Armee - Wunder forest warden’s lodge
02.05.1945: the last remaining Tiger was abandoned due to lack of fuel near Elsholz, and the crew made their way to Tangermünde on the Elbe, surrendering to US troops
00.05.1945: US POW

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Ehrendegen des Reichsführers-SS

SS-Ehrenring

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)

Danziger Kreuz I.Klasse

Rank:: SS-Untersturmführer (2nd Lieutenant)
Unit:: Stab, SS-Heimwehr Danzig
Awarded on:: August 31st, 1939

Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain)
Unit:: Chef, 14. Panzerabwehr Kompanie, SS-Totenkopf-Infanterie-Regiment 2, SS-Totenkopf-Division
Awarded on:: June 22nd, 1940

Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)

Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: SS-Sturmbannführer (Major)
Unit:: Kommandeur, schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 502
Awarded on:: April 28th, 1945

Awarded for distinguishing himself with his Abteilung during the final battles in Germany over the course of March/April 1945.

Veit Scherzer noted that there is no proof of the award in the files of the Bundesarchiv. In a letter of 07.08.1980 from E. G. Krätschmer to Gerhard von Seemen, this award and several others were reported as officially confirmed by Führerhauptquartier (FHQ), Berlin via radio message on 28.04.1945 to the 9th Amry (then in the Halbe Kessel). Incoming radio messages of 9th Army are no longer extant, and Scherzer points out, radio connection to FHQ in Berlin was cut off from 0500 hours on 28.04.1945. The case was reviewed by the OdR’s Ordenskommission in 1980, and their decision- clearly based in large part on the aforementioned Krätschmer letter- was “Ja, 28.4.1945”. Hartrampf is recognized as a Knight’s Cross holder by the Ordensgemeinschaft der Ritterkreuzträger e.V. [OdR], of which he was a member.