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Service/branch
  
Heer Bundeswehr

Commands held
  
Grenadier-Regiment 300

Role
  
Physicist

Years of service
  
1937–45 1956–75

Name
  
Hans Busch

Born
  
5 March 1915 Landsberg an der Warthe (
1915-03-05
)

Died
  
13 April 1998(1998-04-13) (aged 83) Hamburg

Allegiance
  
Nazi Germany (to 1945)  West Germany

Rank
  
Major (Wehrmacht) Oberstleutnant (Bundeswehr)

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Hans Konrad Busch (5 March 1915 – 13 April 1998) was a Major in the Wehrmacht during World War II and an Oberstleutnant in the Bundeswehr. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Busch was captured by Soviet troops in 1945. He joined the Bundeswehr in 1956, retiring in 1975.

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Awards and decorations

  • Iron Cross (1939)
  • 2nd Class (21 November 1939)
  • 1st Class (23 December 1941)
  • Wound Badge
  • in Black (6 November 1942)
  • in Silver (3 December 1943)
  • Infantry Assault Badge (19 March 1943)
  • Demyansk Shield (31 December 1943)
  • Eastern Front Medal (20 July 1942)
  • Close Combat Clasp
  • in Bronze
  • German Cross in Gold (16 January 1944)
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 10 September 1944 as Major and commander of II./Grenadier-Regiment 4
  • Mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht on 3 August 1944

    • References

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