PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Wisliceny, Günther Eberhardt
Date of birth: September 5th, 1912 (Rogulowken/Angerburg/Eastern Prussia, Germany)
Date of death:  August 25th, 1985 (Hannover/Lower Saxony, Germany)
Nationality:  German
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Awarded on: June 27th, 1941
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Awarded on: November 7th, 1941
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: SS-Hauptsturmführer
Unit: III. / Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment "Deutschland"
Awarded on: April 24th, 1943
Details: Award 366/36.
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: SS-Sturmbannführer
Unit: Kommandeur III. / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 3 “Deutschland” / SS-Panzer-Division “Das Reich” / II.SS-Panzer-Korps / Heeresgruppe Süd
Awarded on: July 30th, 1943
Details: 1912th Award.
 
     
RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB
Rank: SS-Obersturmbannführer
Unit: Kommandeur SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 3 “Deutschland” / SS-Panzer-Division “Das Reich” / Oberbefehlshaber West
Awarded on: December 26th, 1944
Details: 687th Award.
 
     
NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN GOLD
Rank: SS-Obersturmbannführer
Unit: Kommandeur SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 3 "Deutschland"
Awarded on: March 31st, 1945
 
     
RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB UND SCHWERTERN
Rank: SS-Obersturmbannführer
Unit: Kommandeur SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 3 "Deutschland"
Awarded on: May 6th, 1945
Details: 151th Award.
According to several sources this awarding was not confirmed by the authorities. Number is according to the date of awarding. Confirmation is made on the basis of a statement under oath to the Ordensgemeinschaft der Ritterkreuzträger made by Generaloberst der Waffen-SS Sepp Dietrich.
 
     
INFANTERIE-STURMABZEICHEN
Details: Silver version.
 
     
PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN SILBER
 
     
PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN SILBER
 
     
VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN GOLD
 
     
WEHRMACHTBERICHT
 
 
 
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Picture source:   - Willi Schumacher Collection
Information source(s):   - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
- PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
- SCHNEIDER, J.W., Their Honor Was Loyalty!, Bender (R.James) Publishing, 1993.
- Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Kwasny A., Kwasny G., Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945 (CD), Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv, Lage-Waddenhausen, 2001
- Dörr M., Die träger der Nahkampfspange in Gold, Heer- Luftwaffe- Waffen-SS 1943-1945, Biblio Verlag Bisendorf, 2006.
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