PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Brasche, Rudolf "Rudi"
Date of birth: Unknown
Date of death:  November 22nd, 1975 (Ziemetshausen/Bavaria, Germany)
Nationality:  German
BIOGRAPHY: 
Rudolf "Rudi" Brasche was Gruppenführer in 4./ Infanterie (Panzergrenadier)-Regiment 93 (later 93. Schützenbrigade) / 13.Panzer-Division.
Transferred to 1. / Panzergrenadier-Lehrregiment 901 in October 1943. After being wounded he was transferred to the Flammenwerferzug / Stabskompanie / Panzer-Lehrdivision (1944). He was wounded 6 times. Became an Unteroffizier in autumn 1942 and Feldwebel on 1st February 1945.
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Rank: Gefreiter
Awarded on: July 18th, 1940
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Awarded on: September 26th, 1942
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Obergefreiter
Unit: Gruppenführer 4. / Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 93 / 13.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: November 9th, 1942
 
     
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PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN SILBER
 
 
 
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Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- 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
- Axis History Biographical Research via Axis History Forum
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