HACK, Franz
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Hack, Franz Date of birth:  February 3rd, 1915 (Mannheim/Baden, Germany) Nationality:  German       EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE Awarded on: June 20th, 1940         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Awarded on: July 10th, 1941         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captein) Unit: Kommandeur III. / SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 9 “Germania” / 5.SS-Panzer-Division “Wiking” Awarded on: January 8th, 1943 Details: Award 266/11.         VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN GOLD Awarded on: May 5th, 1944         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: SS-Sturmbannführer (Mojor) Unit: Kommandeur III. / SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 9 “Germania” / 5.SS-Panzer-Division “Wiking” / Heeresgruppe Mitte Awarded on: May 14th, 1944 Details: 3129th Award.         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB Rank: SS-Sturmbannführer (Major) Unit: Kommandeur SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 10 “Westland” / 5.SS-Panzer-Division “Wiking” / IV.SS-Panzer-Korps Awarded on: April 20th, 1945 Details: Franz Hack was the first person whose awarding of the Eichenlaub did not occur with a number. According to his own words the award was made by SS-Obergruppenführer Gille and SS-Oberführer Ulrich. The awarding was confirmed by an entry between 15th - 20th A[ril in the recmmendations book of OKH/PA/P 5 and an entry in the Soldbuch of Hack with the date of 20th April 1945. According the countings it would have been the 844th Award.         NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN GOLD Rank: SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-colonel) Unit: Kommandeur SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 10 Awarded on: May 1st, 1945         Provide alterations or additional information 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 - Durante T.M., The German Close Combat Clasp of World War II, Philippe De Bock, Tom Durante, Pascal Huysmans, Belgium, 2007, ISBN 9789081230117 - 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 - Dörr M., Die träger der Nahkampfspange in Gold, Heer- Luftwaffe- Waffen-SS 1943-1945, Biblio Verlag Bisendorf, 2006.