Hans Dorr

Hans Dorr
Hans Dorr
Born	(1912-04-07)7 April 1912 Sontheim, Allgäu
Died	17 April 1945(1945-04-17) (aged 33) near Judenburg
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Waffen SS
Years of service	1934-1945
Rank	SS-Obersturmbannführer
Unit	SS-Rgt "Germania"
Commands held	I./SS-PzGrenRgt "Germania"
Battles/wars	World War II
Awards	Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords

Hans Dorr (April 7, 1912 – April 17, 1945) was a German Waffen-SS Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) who served with the 5. SS-Panzer-Division Wiking and was a commander of the SS-Regiment Germania. He was wounded 16 times during World War II and died at a Field hospital near Judenburg only a month before the war's end. He was also awarded the prestigious Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern, Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.

Summary of SS career

Dates of rank

• SS-Anwärter: May 1, 1933
• SS-Mann: October 1, 1934
• SS-Rottenführer: June 1, 1935
• SS-Unterscharführer: November 15, 1935
• SS-Scharführer: April 20, 1937
• SS-Oberscharführer: December 23, 1934
• SS-Oberjunker: April 1, 1938
• SS-Untersturmführer: November 9, 1938
• SS-Obersturmführer: March 11, 1940
• SS-Hauptsturmführer: November 9, 1941
• SS-Sturmbannführer: November 9, 1943
• SS-Obersturmbannführer: August 18, 1944

Notable Awards

• Iron Cross (1939)
  • 2nd Class (14 November 1939)
  • 1st Class (20 August 1940)
• Sudetenland Medal with Clasp(12 June 1940)
• Infantry Assault Badge in Silver (20 April 1942)
• Wound Badge (1939)
  • Black (20 October 1940)
  • Silver (20 August 1941)
  • Gold (20 April 1942)
• Eastern Front Medal (1 September 1942)
• Tank Destruction Badges for Individual Combatants (28 April 1944)
• German Cross in Gold (27 December 1941)
• Close Combat Clasp
  • Bronze (15 September 1943)
  • Silver (3 May 1944)
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
  • Knight's Cross on 27 November 1942 as Hauptsturmführer and chief of the 4./SS-Infanterie-Regiment "Germania"
  • 327th Oak Leaves on 13 November 1943 as Hauptsturmführer and commander of the I./SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Germania"
  • 77th Swords on 9 July 1944 as Sturmbannführer and commander of SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 9 "Germania"

References

Citations

Bibliography

• Florian Berger (2000). Mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern. Die höchstdekorierten Soldaten des Zweiten Weltkrieges. 2., überarbeitete Auflage. Florian Berger, Wien. ISBN 3-9501307-0-5.
• Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000). Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 (in German). Friedburg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
• Krätschmer, Ernst-Günther (1999). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Waffen-SS (in German). Coburg, Germany: Nation Europa Verlag GmbH. ISBN 3-920677-43-9.
• Patzwall, Klaus D. and Scherzer, Veit (2001). Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 - 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II. Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall. ISBN 3-931533-45-X.
• Schaulen, Fritjof (2003). Eichenlaubträger 1940 - 1945 Zeitgeschichte in Farbe I Abraham - Huppertz (in German). Selent, Germany: Pour le Mérite. ISBN 3-932381-20-3.
• Scherzer, Veit (2007). Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Miltaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2.
• Thomas, Franz and Wegmann, Günter (1998). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht 1939–1945 Teil III: Infanterie Band 4: C–Dow (in German). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio-Verlag. ISBN 3-7648-2534-0.

External links

• Hans Dorr @ Lexikon der Wehrmacht