Heinrich Springer

Heinrich Springer
Heinrich Springer
Born	(1914-11-03)3 November 1914 Kiel, German Empire
Died	27 October 2007(2007-10-27) (aged 92) Oelixdorf, Germany
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Waffen-SS
Years of service	1933–45
Rank	Sturmbannführer
Unit	SS Division Leibstandarte
Battles/wars	World War II
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Heinrich Springer (November 3, 1914 – October 27, 2007) was a Sturmbannführer (Major) in the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. He died in Oelixdorf, Germany in 2007.

Awards

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 12 January 1942 as SS-Hauptsturmführer and leader of the 3./"Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler".^[1]

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.

Springer, Heinrich (1996). Stationen eines Lebens in Krieg und Frieden: Zeitgeschichtliches Zeugnis des SS-Sturmbannführers und Ritterkreuzträgers der Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. DVG Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft. ISBN 978-3-920722-40-5.

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 Hans Malkomes Kurt Meyer⁸ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Heinz Nowotnik Joachim Peiper(Oak Leaves & Swords) Gerhard Pleiß Werner Pötschke (Oak Leaves) Hans Reimling Karl Rettlinger Rudolf von Ribbentrop Georg Preuß Rudolf Sandig Kurt Sametreiter Alfred Schneidereit 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.

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 47572833 LCCN: nb2002015835

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