PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Herpolsheimer, Horst
Date of birth: October 3rd, 1920 (Leipzig, Germany)
Nationality:  German
BIOGRAPHY: 
Promotions:
November 9th, 1944: SS-Untersturmführer.
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Unit: SS-Brigade (mot) 2
Awarded on: February 1st, 1942
 
     
VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN SCHWARZ
Unit: SS-Brigade (mot) 2
Awarded on: February 11th, 1942
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Rank: SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
Unit: 11. / III. / SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment "Der Führer" / SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Das Reich"
Awarded on: June 1st, 1943
 
     
VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN SILBER
Rank: SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
Unit: 11. / III. / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Der Führer" / SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Das Reich"
Awarded on: August 12th, 1943
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
Unit: 11. / III. / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Der Führer" / SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Das Reich"
Awarded on: November 26th, 1943
 
     
NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN BRONZE
Rank: SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
Unit: 11. / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Der Führer" / SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Das Reich"
Awarded on: 1943
 
     
NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN SILBER
Rank: SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)
Unit: SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich"
Awarded on: April 1st, 1944
 
     
MEDAILLE "WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941/42" (OSTMEDAILLE)
 
     
PANZERKAMPFABZEICHEN (OHNE ZAHLEN)
 
 
 
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Picture source:   - Willi Schumacher collection
Information source(s):   - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
- Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
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