PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Burgholte, August
Date of birth: September 25th, 1914 (Eisdorf/Harz, Germany)
Date of death:  July 14th, 1982 (Hannover/Lower Saxony, Germany)
Nationality:  German
BIOGRAPHY: 
In service from April 4th 1934.
     
MEDAILLE ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DEN 1. OKTOBER 1938
Rank: Unteroffizier (Junior Sergeant)
Unit: 7. / Panzer-Regiment 6
Awarded on: November 3rd, 1939
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Rank: Oberfeldwebel (Warrant Officer)
Unit: Panzer-Regiment 6/3. Panzer-Division
Awarded on: July 3rd, 1941
 
     
PANZERKAMPFABZEICHEN (OHNE ZAHLEN)
Rank: Oberfeldwebel (Warrant Officer)
Unit: Panzer-Regiment 6 / 3.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: July 10th, 1941
Details: Silver version.
 
     
VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN SCHWARZ
Rank: Oberfeldwebel (Warrant Officer)
Unit: 5. / Panzer-Regiment 6 / 3.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: December 31st, 1941
Action: For receiving a single wound on November 19th 1941.
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Rank: Oberfeldwebel (Warrant Officer)
Unit: Panzer-Regiment 6 / 3.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: February 21st, 1942
 
     
VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN SILBER
Rank: Oberfeldwebel (Warrant Officer)
Unit: 5. / Panzer-Regiment 6 / 3.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: November 26th, 1942
Action: Received for a triple wound received on November 17th 1942.
 
     
MEDAILLE "WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941/42" (OSTMEDAILLE)
Rank: Oberfeldwebel (Warrant Officer)
Awarded on: October 3rd, 1944
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Oberfeldwebel (Warrant Officer)
Unit: Zugführer 3. / Panzer-Regiment 102 / 299.Infanterie-Division / 2.Armee / Heeresgruppe Mitte
Awarded on: December 9th, 1944
Details: Submitted on November 29th 1944.
Preliminary document and decoration on December 15th 1944 to AOK 2.
 
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Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer, Elite of the Third Reich - The Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-45: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, England, 2003
- Federl, C., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Panzerdivisionen 1939-1945, VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, Germany, 2000
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