Riehs, Otto

     
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Riehs Riehs
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Otto Otto
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Otto Riehs
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šikovatel Feldwebel
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12.08.1921 Mariánské Lázně /
12.08.1921 Mariánské Lázně /
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29.05.2008 Frankfurt nad Mohanem
29.05.2008 Frankfurt am Main
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11.10.1943 Rytířský kříž -
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Florian Berger – Ritterkreuzträger aus Österreich und den K.u.K. Kronländern
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He was born on 12.08.1921 in Marienbad (Mariánské Lázně) in Czechoslovakia as the son of a barber, he was apprenticed in his father's trade. 06/1941 Eastern Front, deployed as a loader and aimer in 14.(Pz.Jäger) Kpn. 08/1941 wounded by shrapnel. 09/1941 Iron Cross II.Class, during winter fighting - frostbite. During one frontal assault by a Soviet tank brigade for the company's position, an hour-long battle ignited, taking place at a distance of 20 to 300 meters, with Riehs destroying 11 tanks, the other guns destroying 23 others. Despite enemy pressure, and partial man-to-man fighting in the anti-tank gun positions, the position was held. Riehs first received the Iron Cross First Class for this feat, but then received the Knight's Cross on 11 October 1943 and was personally named in Wehrmacht reports. 1943/44 further as a gunnery commander in combat deployment. 1.2.1944 promoted to chivalry, in the meantime he received a badge for destroying a tank, a Silver Pin for close combat, a gold badge for wounds. After being wounded again in the fighting from January 1945 near Poznan. Here he took command of a platoon of 88mm anti-tank guns, badly wounded (head and eye) fell into Soviet captivity, 1949 released. After the war, truck and taxi driver. Due to his close contacts to right-wing political groups, the 85-year-old Riehs ran as a candidate for the NPD in Hesse in 2006.


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Florian Berger - Ritterkreuzträger aus Österreich und den K.u.K. Kronländern
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