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~SOLD~ EULING Karl-Heinz
Hauptsturmführer
Euling, Karl-Heinz
* 16.08.1919 Dorndorf/Rhön
Awarded Knights Cross: 15.10.1944
as: Hauptsturmführer Kommandeur I./SS-PzGrenRgt 22 "Frundsberg"
Early life
Euling was born on 16 August 1919 in Dorndorf, in the region of Eisenach. On 22 March 1932 he joined the Hitler Youth, where he earned the Hitler Youth Proficiency Badge and the Golden Hitler Youth Badge. On 1 September 1937 he joined the NSDAP. After the Volksschule, Euling attended a reform high school and passed his matriculation examination in February 1938. He volunteered to join the SS-VT on 1 April 1938, assigned to the 2 Company, SS Totenkopf and participated in the Polish Campaign with them.
World War II
Euling was then selected to become an officer and posted to the SS-Junkerschule at Braunschweig between February and May 1940. After graduation he was promoted to Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant) in August 1940. After being wounded he was transferred to the SS Infantry Training nas Reserve Battalion Ost and from there to the 1st SS Infantry Brigade, where he served as a platoon commander and Adjutant earning the War Merit Cross I & II class with Swords and the Iron Cross I & II class. He was promoted to Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in November 1943 and transferred to the western front on the staff of the II SS Panzer Corps.
In June 1944 Euling was transferred to the 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg and given command of the I.Battalion, 21 SS Panzergrenadier Regiment, during the Battle of Normandy. Having been withdrawn to the Arnhem area to reform they were well placed to respond to Operation Market Garden, the Allied parachute landings in the Netherlands. On 19 September 1944 Euling and his battalion (I./22) broke off from the house-to-house fighting and the position they had held at the bridge at Nijmegen that blocked the road leading to Arnhem. Euling was awarded the Knight's Cross for his leadership and command of the Battalion during the Normandy landings and the Battle of Arnhem.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the onset of Operation Market Garden, Euling led his men back into the thick of the heaviest combat, launching a night attack against the British paratroopers at the Arnhem road bridge. However, Euling’s men were out-numbered and out-gunned and the attack was repulsed.
Euling’s orders changed and he immediately left for the ferry at Pannerden and led his men to Nijmegen. Responsible for the main defence of the road bridge in Nijmegen, Euling worked with Baumgaertel’s SS-Pioneers to erect the best defences that could be mustered, fortifying the approaches to both bridges.
The Allied attack in Nijmegen ground down Euling’s command and both bridges were eventually lost after heavy fighting, but Euling did not give up the fight. He gathered the last sixty men in his command and advanced through the night, out of Nijmegen. He stealthily moved his men through Allied units and crossed the Waal River to safety.
For his heroic bravery during and following the fighting in Nijmegen, Euling was awarded the Knight’s Cross on 15 October 1944.
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