GILLE, Herbert Otto
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Gille, Herbert Otto Date of birth:  March 8th, 1897 (Gandersheim, Harz, Germany) Date of death:  December 26th, 1966 (Stemmen/Hannover, Germany) Nationality:  German       1939 SPANGE ZUM EISERNEN KREUZES 2ER KLASSE 1914 Rank: SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-colonel) Unit: Kommandeur der I. Abteilung/ SS-Artillerie-Regiments 5. Awarded on: October 26th, 1939         1939 SPANGE ZUM EISERNEN KREUZES 1ER KLASSE 1914 Rank: SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-colonel) Unit: Kommandeur der I. Abteilung/ SS-Artillerie-Regiments 5. Awarded on: November 21st, 1939         INFANTERIE-STURMABZEICHEN Rank: SS-Standartenführer (Colonel) Unit: Kommandeur der Artillerie Regiment 5 /SS-Division "Wiking" Action: Awarded in May 1941.         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: SS-Oberführer Unit: Kommandeur der SS-Artillerie Regiment 5 / SS-Division "Wiking" Awarded on: February 28th, 1942         MEDAILLE "WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941/42" (OSTMEDAILLE) Rank: SS-Oberführer Unit: Kommandeur der Artillerie Regiment 5 /SS-Division "Wiking" Awarded on: September 15th, 1942         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: SS-Oberführer Unit: Kommandeur der SS-Artillerie Regiment 5 / SS-Division "Wiking" / LVII.Panzerkorps / 17.Armee / Heeresgruppe A Awarded on: October 8th, 1942         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB Rank: SS-Brigadeführer / Generalmajor der Waffen-SS (Brigadier) Unit: Kommandeur SS-Panzergrenadier Division "Wiking" Awarded on: November 1st, 1943 Details: 315th Award.         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB UND SCHWERTERN Rank: SS-Gruppenführer / Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS (Major-general) Unit: Kommandeur 5.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Wiking" Awarded on: February 20th, 1944 Details: 47th Award.         WEHRMACHTBERICHT Awarded on: April 6th, 1944         RITTERKREUZ, EICHENLAUB, SCHWERTERN UND BRILLANTEN Rank: SS-Gruppenführer / Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Unit: Kommandeur 5.SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking" Awarded on: April 19th, 1944 Details: 12th Award.         WEHRMACHTBERICHT Awarded on: September 2nd, 1944         SILBERES SA-SPORTABZEICHEN         VAPAUDENRISTIN 1.LUOKKA MIEKKOJEN KERA (VR 1 MK)         Provide alterations or additional information Picture source:   - Willi Schumacher Collection 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 - Schneider J.W., Their Honor was Loyalty!, R. James Bender Publishing, 1977 - Wiking-RUF