Karl-Heinz Euling

Karl-Heinz Euling

Heinz Harmel with Euling (on right) and Otto Paetsch in February 1945.
Born (1919-08-16)16 August 1919
Dorndorf, Germany
Died 14 April 2014(2014-04-14) (aged 94)
Munich, Germany
Allegiance  Nazi Germany
Service/branch Waffen SS
Years of service 1938–45
Rank Hauptsturmführer
Unit SS-VT
SS Division Totenkopf
10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg
Battles/wars World War II
Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Karl Heinz Euling (16 August 1919 – 14 April 2014)[1] was a Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in the Waffen SS during World War II. He 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.

Born in 1919, Euling joined the Nazi party in 1937. He volunteered to join the SS-VT on in 1938 and was assigned to SS Division Totenkopf, with which he participated in the Invasion of Poland. In 1940 he was transferred to the SS Infantry Training Reserve Battalion Ost and from there to the 1st SS Infantry Brigade, where he served as a platoon commander. In November 1943 he was transferred to the western front on the staff of the II SS Panzer Corps. In June 1944 Euling was transferred to the SS Division Frundsberg and took part in the Battle of Normandy, and later in the fighting against Operation Market Garden, the Allied parachute landings in the Netherlands. Euling was awarded the Knight's Cross for his leadership and command of the battalion during the Normandy landings and the Battle of Arnhem.

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Further reading

  • 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. 
  • Mitcham, Samuel W (2007). Retreat to the Reich : the German defeat in France, 1944. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-3384-7. 
  • Mitcham, Samuel W (2007). The German Defeat in the East, 1944–45. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-3371-7. 
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