Hans Becker

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Hans Becker
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101III-Bueschel-152-27, Russland, zwei Angehörige der Waffen-SS.jpg Hans Becker (left) and Karl Rettlinger at Kursk summer 1943
Born	15 November 1911 Peenemünde, Germany
Died	Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. near Saint-Lambert, France
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Waffen-SS
Years of service	1939–44
Rank	Sturmbannführer
Unit	1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
Battles/wars	World War II
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Iron Cross 1st Class Iron Cross 2nd Class Tank Destruction Badge

Hans Becker (15 November 1911 — 20 August 1944) was a Sturmbannführer (Storm Unit Leader/Major) in the Waffen-SS who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, on 23 March 1943 while commanding the 2nd Company, of the 2nd SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment, LSSAH.

Becker while in command of the 1st Battalion, 2nd SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment, was killed in action 20 August 1944, in France.^[1]

Awards

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 28 March 1943 as SS-Hauptsturmführer and chief of the 2./SS-Panzerzgrenadier-Regiment 2 "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"^[2]^[3]

References

Citations

↑ Mitcham 2007, p. 226.
↑ Fellgiebel 2000, p. 126.
↑ Scherzer 2007, p. 209.

Bibliography

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v t e Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
SS-Division (motorized) SS-Infanterie-Regiment (motorized) "LSSAH"	Sepp Dietrich¹ (Oak Leaves, Swords & Diamonds) Gerhard Pleiß Heinrich Springer Theodor Wisch (Oak Leaves & Swords)
Stab	Rudolf Lehmann² (Oak Leaves)
SS-Panzer-Regiment 1 "LSSAH"	Josef Armberger Wilhelm Beck Hans Dauser Martin Groß Konrad Heubeck Heinrich Kling Herbert Kuhlmann Hans Malkomes Joachim Peiper³ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Werner Pötschke (Oak Leaves) Hans Reimling Rudolf von Ribbentrop Georg Schönberger Franz Staudegger Helmut Wendorff Michael Wittmann⁴ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Balthasar Woll Max Wünsche⁵ (Oak Leaves)
SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 1 "LSSAH"	Hermann Dahlke Albert Frey (Oak Leaves) Erich Göstl Erich Grätz Max Hansen (Oak Leaves) Frank Hasse Heinz Nowotnik Alfred Schneidereit Fritz Witt⁶ (Oak Leaves)
SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 2 "LSSAH"	Hans Becker Josef Diefenthal Gerhard Grebarsche Paul Guhl Georg Karck Hugo Kraas (Oak Leaves) Joachim Peiper³ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Georg Preuß Rudolf Sandig Bernhard Siebken Werner Wolff
SS-Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 1 "LSSAH"	Alfred Günther Heinrich Heimann Fritz Henke Karl Rettlinger Emil Wiesemann
SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 1 "LSSAH"	Kurt Sametreiter
SS-(Panzer-)Aufklärungs-Abteilung 1 "LSSAH"	Gerhard Bremer⁷ (Oak Leaves) Gustav Knittel Kurt Meyer⁸ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Hermann Weiser
SS-Flakartillerie-Abteilung 1 "LSSAH"	Walter Pitsch?
SS-Panzergrenadier Ausbildungs und Ersatz-Bataillon 1 "LSSAH"	Friedrich Blond?
¹Diamonds with the I SS Panzer Corps. ²Oak Leaves with the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. ³Knight's Cross with SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 2, Oak Leaves and Swords with SS-Panzer-Regiment 1. ⁴Swords with 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion. ⁵Oak Leaves with SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 "Hitlerjugend" (12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend). ⁶Knight's with SS-Infanterie-Regiment "Deutschland" (2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich). ⁷Oak Leaves with SS-Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 12 "Hitlerjugend" (12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend). ⁸Swords with the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. This along with the ? (question mark) indicates doubt regarding the veracity and formal correctness of the listing.