Erich Göstl

Dr. jur. Erich Göstl
Born	17 April 1925 Vienna, Austria
Died	28 October 1990 (1990-10-29) (aged 65) Sankt Jakob, Austria
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Waffen SS
Years of service	1943–45
Rank	Schütze
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
Other work	Earned a doctorate in law (Dr. jur.)^{[Note 1]} from the University of Vienna

Erich Göstl (17 April 1925 – 28 October 1990) was a member of the Waffen SS who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.

Göstl was born in Vienna on April 17, 1925. In World War II, he was a member of the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler during the Normandy Campaign where he was in the 6th Company, 1st SS Panzergrenadier Regiment, deployed near the French town of Tilly, a few kilometers from Caen.

Awards

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 31 October 1944 as SS-Panzergrenadier and machine gun operator 1 in the 6./SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 1 "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"^[1]

Notes

↑ In German a Doctor of Law is abbreviated as Dr. iur. (Doctor iuris) or Dr. jur. (Doctor juris).

References

Citations

↑ Fellgiebel 2000, p. 198.

Bibliography

Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) [1986]. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile [The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.
Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives [The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives] (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Miltaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2.
Huß, Jürgen (2009). Ritterkreuzträger im Mannschaftsstand 1941 - 1945. Zweibrücken: VDM Nickel. ISBN 978-3-86619-042-9.

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients of the SS Division Leibstandarte

Staff	Sepp Dietrich¹ (Oak Leaves, Swords & Diamonds) Theodor Wisch (Oak Leaves & Swords) Rudolf Lehmann² (Oak Leaves)

Units	Hans Becker Josef Diefenthal Albert Frey (Oak Leaves) Erich Göstl Erich Grätz Martin Groß Paul Guhl Alfred Günther Max Hansen (Oak Leaves) Frank Hasse Heinrich Heimann Fritz Henke Konrad Heubeck Georg Karck Hugo Kraas (Oak Leaves) Heinrich Kling Herbert Kuhlmann Gustav Knittel Kurt Meyer⁸ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Heinz Nowotnik Joachim Peiper (Oak Leaves & Swords) Gerhard Pleiß Werner Pötschke (Oak Leaves) Karl Rettlinger Rudolf von Ribbentrop Georg Preuß Rudolf Sandig Bernhard Siebken Heinrich Springer Hermann Weiser Fritz Witt⁶ (Oak Leaves) Michael Wittmann⁴ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Werner Wolff Max Wünsche⁵ (Oak Leaves)

¹Diamonds with the I SS Panzer Corps. ²Oak Leaves with the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. ⁴Swords with 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion. ⁵Oak Leaves with the SS Division Hitlerjugend. ⁶Knight's with the SS Division Das Reich. ⁸Swords with the SS Division Hitlerjugend.

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