SCHMELZER, Heinrich
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Schmelzer, Heinrich Date of birth:  March 14th, 1914 (Nesselroden/Hesse, Germany) Date of death:  1985 Nationality:  German       EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Awarded on: July 1st, 1940         EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE Awarded on: July 27th, 1940         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: SS-Hauptscharführer Unit: 3. / SS-Pionier-Bataillon 2 "Das Reich" Awarded on: October 27th, 1942         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: SS-Oberstrurmführer Unit: Führer 16. / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Das Reich" Awarded on: March 12th, 1944         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB Rank: SS-Hauptsturmführer Unit: Chef 1. / SS-Panzer-Pionier-Bataillon "Das Reich" Awarded on: February 28th, 1945 Details: 756th Award.         NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN GOLD Rank: SS-Hauptsturmführer Unit: Kompanieführer 16. / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "DR" Awarded on: 1945         Provide alterations or additional information 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 - 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 - Dörr M., Die träger der Nahkampfspange in Gold, Heer- Luftwaffe- Waffen-SS 1943-1945, Biblio Verlag Bisendorf, 2006.