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Hans Dorr (April 7, 1912 - April 17, 1945) was a German Waffen-SS Obersturmbannführer who served with the 5. SS-Panzer-Division Wiking and was a commander of the SS-Regiment Germania. He was wounded 16 times during WWII and died at a Field hospital near Judenburg only a month before the war's end. He was also awarded the prestigious Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern.
[edit] Summary of SS career
[edit] Dates of rank
- SS-Anwärter: May 01, 1933
- SS-Mann: October 01, 1934
- SS-Rottenführer: June 01, 1935
- SS-Unterscharführer: November 15, 1935
- SS-Scharführer: April 20, 1937
- SS-Oberscharführer: December 23, 1934
- SS-Oberjunker: April 01, 1938
- SS-Untersturmführer: November 09, 1938
- SS-Obersturmführer: March 11, 1940
- SS-Hauptsturmführer: November 09, 1941
- SS-Sturmbannführer: November 09, 1943
- SS-Obersturmbannführer: August 18, 1944
[edit] Notable Awards
[edit] References
- Florian Berger: Mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern. Die höchstdekorierten Soldaten des Zweiten Weltkrieges. 2., überarbeitete Auflage. Florian Berger, Wien 1999, ISBN 3-9501307-0-5.
- Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945. Friedburg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas, 2000. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
- Patzwall, Klaus D. and Scherzer, Veit. Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 - 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II. Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X.
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