Benutzer:Ben AlHürxe/Heinrich Kling
Vorlage:Infobox military person Heinrich Kling (10 September 1913 – 30 September 1951) was a German Waffen-SS commander during the Nazi era, who served with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH).
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Kling graduated from the SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz in 1938. On November 14, 1939 he joined the 12th SS Totenkopf Standarte in Łódź, which shot a thousand residents of the psychiatric hospital in Owinsk near Poznań.Vorlage:Sfnb He participated in so called operations against "partisans", which meant the execution of Polish intellectuals and Jews.Vorlage:Sfnb For his service he was awarded with the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the War Merit Cross with swords.Vorlage:Sfnb Prior to Operation Barbarossa he came to the Leibstandarte, and commanded its 13th (heavy) company of Tiger I tanks.Vorlage:Sfnb As an ardent Nazi, Kling was popular among his fellow Waffen-SS soldiers.Vorlage:Sfnb
Since late November 1943 the SS Panzer Regiment 1 was commanded by Joachim Peiper, of whom Kling was a personal favorite. Peiper consequently made Kling leader of the 2nd Battalion,Vorlage:Sfnb and nominated him for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.Vorlage:Sfnb Kling received the award on 23 February 1944.[1]
Kling was heavily wounded during Operation Overlord.Vorlage:Sfnb On 19 March 1945, he was appointed commander of the 501st Heavy SS Panzer Battalion.Vorlage:Sfnb
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- ↑ @ALEX Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Reichsgesetzblatt Teil I S. 613; 28 September 1941
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- Jens Westemeier: Himmlers Krieger: Joachim Peiper und die Waffen-SS in Krieg und Nachkriegszeit. Krieg in der Geschichte Auflage. Verlag Ferd.Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77241-1 (google.com).
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