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| PERSONALIA |
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| Name: |
Brandner, Josef Wilhelm "Sepp" |
| Date of birth: | September 1st, 1915 (Hohenberg/Lower Austria, Austria)
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| Date of death: |
June 6th, 1996 (Vienna, Austria)
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Austrian |
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BIOGRAPHY:
Promotions:
24th October 1937: Vormeister in het Österreichisches Bundesheer.
1st October 1938: Obergefreiter in de Wehrmacht.
1st December 1938: Unteroffizier.
1st April 1940: Wachtmeister.
4th May 1940: Offizier Anwärter.
1st June 1942: Oberleutnant.
1st June 1943: Hauptmann.
April 1945: Major.
After the Second World War, Brandner served in the Austrian Army and was awarded with the Croix du Combattant de Europe (1st May 1975) and the Silbernes Verdienstabzeichen der Republik Österreich (7th July 1994).
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DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
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Hauptmann (Captain)
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Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 202
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Awarded on:
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September 14th, 1943
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Award 442/45.
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RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
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Hauptman (Captain)
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Kommandeur Heeres-Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 912 / 205.Infanterie-Division/ XXXVIII.Panzer-Korps / 16.Armee / Heeresgruppe Kurland
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Awarded on:
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March 17th, 1945
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4761st Award.
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RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB
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Major
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Führer Heeres-Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 912 / 16.Armee / Heeresgruppe Kurland
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Awarded on:
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April 26th, 1945
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The awarding of the Eichenlaub is according his own testimony. Although there are photos known with him wearing the Eichenlaub, no official confirmation is known. Based on the presumed date of awarding this should be the 846th Award, however numbring of the officially known awards had stopped after the 843rd Award.
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| Picture source: |
- Willi Schumacher Collection |
| 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
- 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
- Berger, F., Ritterkreuzträger aus Österreich und den k.u.k. Kronländern, Selbstverlag Florian Berger, Wien, Österreich, 2006
- Kurowski, F., Panzer Aces II – Battle Stories of German Tank Commanders of WWII, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, U.S.A., 2004
- Kurowski, F., Bridgehead Kurland – The six epic battles of Heeresgruppe Kurland, J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc., Winnipeg, Canada, 2002
- Ritterkreuztraeger 1939 - 1945
- Axis History Biographical Research via Axis History Forum
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