RENTSCHLER, Emil Heinrich  
 
PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Rentschler, Emil Heinrich
Date of birth: March 29th, 1912 (Schorndorf/Württemberg, Germany)
Date of death:  December 28th, 1984 (Esslingen am Neckar/Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Nationality:  German
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Awarded on: June 27th, 1940
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Awarded on: December 24th, 1941
 
     
ANERKENNUNGSURKUNDE DES OBERBEFEHLSHABERS DES HEERES
Awarded on: September 7th, 1943
Details: 2036th Award.
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Hauptmann (Captain)
Unit: Kommandeur III. / Grenadier-Regiment 537 / 387.lnfanterie-Regiment/ XXX.Armee-Korps / 1.Panzer-Armee / Heeresgruppe Süd
Awarded on: October 18th, 1943
Details: 2230th Award.
 
     
NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN GOLD
Rank: Oberstleutnant
Unit: Kommandeur Grenadier-Regiment 1093
Awarded on: November 5th, 1944
 
     
KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD
Rank: Oberstleutnant
Unit: Grenadier-Regiment 1093
Awarded on: December 7th, 1944
Details: Award 666/88.
 
     
RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB
Rank: Oberstleutnant
Unit: Kommandeur Grenadier-Regiment 1093
Awarded on: March 14th, 1945
Details: Not numbered awarding. The awarding is not by all recognized and verified.
 
     
PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN SILBER
 
     
PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN SILBER
 
 
 
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Picture source:   - Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv
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
- Kwasny A., Kwasny G., Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945 (CD), Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv, Lage-Waddenhausen, 2001
- 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
   
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