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Franz Hack

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Allegiance
  
Nazi Germany

Service number
  
SS #227,129

Name
  
Franz Hack

Service/branch
  
Waffen-SS

Years of service
  
1934–45

Battles/wars
  
World War II

Battles and wars
  
World War II

Rank
  
Obersturmbannfuhrer


Awards
  
Knight's Cross with Oakleaves Iron Cross 1st Class Iron Cross 2nd Class German Cross in Gold Wound Badge in Black Eastern Front Medal Sudetenland Medal with Prague Bar Close Combat Clasp in Gold

Died
  
June 9, 1997, Hamburg, Germany

Unit
  
5th SS Panzer Division Wiking

Similar People
  
Gerd von Rundstedt, Wladyslaw Sikorski, Heinz Guderian, John Vereker - 6th Visco, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb

Franz Hack (3 February 1915 – 9 June 1997) was an Obersturmbannfuhrer (Lieutenant Colonel) in the Waffen SS during World War II who was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves and the Close Combat Clasp in Gold.

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Hack was born in Mannheim, Germany on 3 February 1915. Upon joining the SS he was issued the service number 227,129, his first command was the 1st Company, Germania Regiment in 1938. He ended the war as the commander of the 10th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment Westland, 5th SS Panzer Grenadier Division Wiking. Hack died in Hamburg, Germany in June 1997.

Commands

  • 4th Company, Germania
  • III.(gep.)/Battalion 9th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment Germania
  • 5th SS Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion
  • 10th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment Westland

    • Awards

  • Iron Cross (1939)
  • 2nd Class (20 June 1940)
  • 1st Class (10 July 1941)
  • German Cross in Gold on 8 January 1943 as SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer in the III./SS-Infanterie-Regiment "Germania"
  • Close Combat Clasp
  • in Bronze on 1 March 1943
  • in Silver on 1 June 1944
  • in Gold on 1 May 1945 for 50 days in close combat
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
  • Knight's Cross on 14 May 1944 as SS-Sturmbannfuhrer and commander of the III.(gepanzert)/SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 9 "Germania"
  • (844th) Oak Leaves on 18 April 1945 as SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer and commander of SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 10 "Westland"

    • References

    Franz Hack Wikipedia
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