CARIUS, Otto  
 
PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Carius, Otto
Date of birth: May 27th, 1922 (Zweibrücken/Palatinate, Germany)
Date of death:  Unknown (Herschweiler/Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
Nationality:  German
BIOGRAPHY: 
In service from April 1st 1940.
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Rank: Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant)
Unit: Zugführer 10./Panzer-Regiment 21
Awarded on: July 19th, 1942
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Rank: Leutnant der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit: Zugführer 2. / schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502
Awarded on: November 23rd, 1943
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Leutnant der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit: Zugführer 2. / schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502 / 61.Infanterie-Division / / XXXXIII.Armee-Korps / Armeegruppe Narwa / Heeresgruppe Nord
Awarded on: May 4th, 1944
Details: 3066th Award.
Sublitted on April 26th 1944.
Preliminary document and decoration on May 10th 1944 to Heeresgruppe Nord.
 
     
PANZERKAMPFABZEICHEN II STUFE
Rank: Leutnant der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit: 2. / schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502
Awarded on: July 15th, 1944
 
     
RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB
Rank: Leutnant der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit: Führer 2. / schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502 / II.Armee-Korps / 16.Armee / Heeresgruppe Nord
Awarded on: July 27th, 1944
Details: 535st Award.
 
     
PANZERKAMPFABZEICHEN III STUFE
Rank: Leutnant der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit: Führer 2. / schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502
Awarded on: September 1st, 1944
Action: Awarded for 50 days of battle.
 
     
VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN GOLD
Rank: Leutnant der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit: Führer 2. / schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502
Awarded on: September 11th, 1944
Action: Awarded in accordance with his on July 8th 1941, December 9th 1942, December 2nd 1943, April 20th 1944 and July 24th 1944 received wounds.
 
     
PANZERKAMPFABZEICHEN IV STUFE ("75")
Rank: Oberleutnant der Reserve (1st Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit: 2. / schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 512
Awarded on: April 21st, 1945
 
 
 
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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, 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
- Wikipedia.org
- Achtungpanzer.com
- Onderzoek via Panzer-Archiv Forum
   
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