PEICHL, Adolf
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Peichl, Adolf Date of birth:  December 8th, 1917 (Vienna, Austria) Date of death:  June 4th, 1969 (Vienna, Austria) Nationality:  Austrian       EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE Awarded on: August 23rd, 1941         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Awarded on: October 28th, 1941         PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN SILBER Awarded on: September 6th, 1943         PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN SILBER Awarded on: September 6th, 1943         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant) Unit: Zugführer 12. / SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment "Der Führer" Awarded on: September 16th, 1943         PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN SILBER Awarded on: September 1943 Details: For a tank destroyed on 20th September 1943.         NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN BRONZE Awarded on: October 22nd, 1943         NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN SILBER Awarded on: October 22nd, 1943         NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN GOLD Rank: SS-Hauptscharführer (Warrant Officer) Unit: Zugführer 12. / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 Awarded on: October 26th, 1943         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: SS-Hauptscharführer (Warrant Officer) Unit: Zugführer 12.(gepanzerte) / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 "Der Führer" Awarded on: October 16th, 1944         INFANTERIE-STURMABZEICHEN         PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN SILBER         PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN GOLD Details: Received for his fifth personally destroyed enemy tank. Uncertain is wether he received first five silver ones that were later replaced by a golden one or that he received the golden for his fifth destroyed tank.         PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN GOLD Details: Received for his tenth personally destroyed enemy tank. Uncertain is how many silver badges he received between the golden one for his fifth and the golden one for his tenth tank.         PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN SILBER Details: Adolf Peichl destroyed personally a total of eleven enemy tanks.         Provide alterations or additional information Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002 - Bender R.J., Breyette T., Tank Killers, RJ Bender Publications, 2000, ISBN 0-912138-83-1 - Dörr M., Die träger der Nahkampfspange in Gold, Heer- Luftwaffe- Waffen-SS 1943-1945, Biblio Verlag Bisendorf, 2006. - 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