Rickmers, Boy (Grenadier-Regiment 586)
- Date of birth:
- December 20th, 1895 (New York City/New York, USA)
- Date of death:
- December 4th, 1957 (Nieblum/Insel Föhr)
- Service number:
- SS-Nr.: 69.498 // NSDAP-Nr.: 2.749.921
- Nationality:
- German (1933-1945, Third Reich)
Biography
Oberstleutnant Boy Cornelius Rickmers
Promotions:
February 7th, 1918: Leutnant d.R.;
20.04.1935: SS-Untersturmführer
October 1st, 1936: Oberleutnant d.R. (31);
February 1st, 1938: Hauptmann (E) m.W.v. 1-11-1937;
June 1st, 1940: Major;
July 1st, 1942: Oberstleutnant.
Career:
August 26th, 1939: Kp.chef 10./Inf.Rgt. 469;
August 15th, 1940: beim Inf.Ers.Btl. 469 und 209;
January 19th, 1941: Kdr. III./Inf.Rgt. 585;
January 23rd, 1943: Fhr. Gren.Rgt. 586;
June 1st, 1943: wieder Führer Gren.Rgt. 586;
September 1st, 1943: Führer-Reserve OKH;
December 5th, 1943: Kdr.verstärkten Gren.Rgt. 1023;
March 1st, 1944: Kdr. Festungs-Inf.Rgt. 713.
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Eisernes Kreuz 2.Klasse (1914)
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- December 31st, 1915
Hamburgisches Hanseatenkreuz
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- July 31st, 1918
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- July 31st, 1918
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- August 1st, 1918
Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
- Period:
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Awarded on:
- 1935
- Awarded on:
- 1936
- Awarded on:
- December 1st, 1937
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant-colonel)
- Unit:
- Führer, Grenadier-Regiment 586, 320. Infanterie-Division, Heer
- Awarded on:
- March 26th, 1943
“Oberstleutnant Rickmers and his Kampfgruppe smashed through numerically superior enemy forces in the Donez region over the course of 2 days of battle, and in the process they wiped out 3 Soviet battalions.”
Sources
- Photo 1: Known to STIWOT
- - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
- axishistory.com
- Die Grenz-Zeitung (Edition 95)
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