Erich Rossner

Erich Rossner

Born	26 May 1918 Helmbrechts, Germany
Died	30 July 1941 (1941-07-31) (aged 23) Eastern Front
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Waffen SS
Years of service	1938–41
Rank	Unterscharführer
Unit	SS Division Das Reich
Battles/wars	World War II Soviet Yelnya Offensive
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Erich Rossner (26 May 1918 – 30 July 1941) was a Unterscharführer in the Waffen-SS during World War II who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Eric Rossner was born on the 26 May 1918 in Helmbrechts. He volunteered to join the SS and was posted to an artillery battery in the SS Division Das Reich. He was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class on the 25 July 1941, 1st class on the 3 August 1941 and the Knight's Cross on the 25 August 1941, for reportedly destroying 13 Soviet tanks before being fatally wounded. Rossner died of his wounds on the Eastern Front on 30 July 1941.^[1]

References

Citations

↑ Scherzer 2007, p. 640.

Bibliography

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.

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich

Staff	Otto Baum¹ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Paul Hausser² (Oak Leaves & Swords) Matthias Kleinheisterkamp³ Walter Krüger⁴ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Werner Ostendorff Herbert-Ernst Vahl

Units	Wilhelm Bittrich⁵ (Oak Leaves) Heinz Harmel⁶ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Heinz Macher (Oak Leaves) Günther-Eberhardt Wisliceny (Oak Leaves) Fritz Witt⁸ (Oak Leaves) Helmut Kämpfe Georg Keppler Ludwig Kepplinger Otto Kumm⁹ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Heinz Lammerding Adolf Peichl Sylvester Stadler¹⁰ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Ernst Barkmann Friedrich Holzer Dieter Kesten Fritz Langanke Karl Mühleck Adolf Reeb Albin Freiherr von Reitzenstein Willy Simke Johann Thaler Christian Tychsen (Oak Leaves) Johann Veith Karl-Heinz Worthmann Wolfgang Gast Karl Kreutz Hans Schabschneider Walter Kniep Wolfgang Röhder Erich Rossner Fritz Klingenberg Ernst Krag (Oak Leaves) Fritz Rentrop Heinrich Schmelzer (Oak Leaves) Alfred Siegling Felix Steiner⁷ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Otto Weidinger¹¹ (Oak Leaves) Fritz Vogt¹² (Oak Leaves)

¹Knight's Cross and Oak Leaves with the SS Division Totenkopf). ²Oak Leaves with the II SS Panzer Corps, Swords with the 7th Army. ³Oak Leaves with the XI SS Panzer Corps. ⁴Knight's Cross with the SS Polizei Division, Swords with the VI Waffen-SS Army Corps. ⁵Oak Leaves with the II SS Panzer Corps, Swords with the SS Division Florian Geyer. ⁶Swords with the SS Division Frundsberg. ⁷Oak Leaves with the SS Division Wiking, Swords with the III SS Panzer Corps. ⁸Oak Leaves with the SS Division Leibstandarte). ⁹Oak Leaves with the SS Division Prinz Eugen. ¹⁰Swords with the SS Division Hohenstaufen. ¹²Oak Leaves with the SS Division Nordland).

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