OSTERMEIER, Hans-Arno
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Ostermeier, Hans-Arno Date of birth:  February 10th, 1903 (Budapest, Austrian-Hungarian Empire) Date of death:  June 13th, 1989 (Waldkraiburg/Bavaria, Germany) Nationality:  German       EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE Awarded on: July 27th, 1941         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Awarded on: September 30th, 1941         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: Hauptmann der Reserve (Captain of Reserves) Unit: Führer Alarm-Kampfgruppe / Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Feldherrnhalle" / 4.Armee / Heeresgruppe Mitte Awarded on: August 23rd, 1944 Details: 3481st Award.         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: Major der Reserve Unit: Führer Fallschirm-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 3 "Hermann Göring" / Fallschirm-Panzergrenadier-Division 2 "Hermann Göring" Awarded on: March 6th, 1945         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB Rank: Major der Reserve Unit: Führer Fallschirm-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 3 "Hermann Göring" / Fallschirm-Panzergrenadier-Division 2 "Hermann Göring" Awarded on: April 15th, 1945 Details: 834st Award.         NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN GOLD Rank: Major Unit: Führer Fallschirm-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 3 "Hermann Göring" / Fallschirm-Panzergrenadier-Division 2 "Hermann Göring" Awarded on: April 30th, 1945         PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN SILBER Rank: Hauptmann der Reserve (Captain) Unit: Führer Alarm-Kampfgruppe / Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Feldherrnhalle"         NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN SILBER Rank: Major der Reserve Unit: Fallschirm-Panzergrenadier-Division 2 "Hermann Göring"         Provide alterations or additional information Picture source:   - Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv Information source(s):   - 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 - Bender R.J., Breyette T., Tank Killers, RJ Bender Publications, 2000, ISBN 0-912138-83-1 - Berger, F., Ritterkreuzträger aus Österreich und den k.u.k. Kronländern, Selbstverlag Florian Berger, Wien, Österreich, 2006 - Bender and Petersen, “Hermann Göring”: from Regiment to Fallschirmpanzerkorps, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., USA, 1993 - 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 - Dörr M., Die träger der Nahkampfspange in Gold, Heer- Luftwaffe- Waffen-SS 1943-1945, Biblio Verlag Bisendorf, 2006. - http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de