Nickname(s) Heinz Name Heinrich Kling | Battles and wars World War II Years of service 1933–45 Rank Sturmbannfuhrer | |
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Born 10 September 1913Kassel, Hessen ( 1913-09-10 ) Commands held 18/LSSAH13s./1st SS Panzer Regiment LSSAHII./1st SS Panzer Regiment LSSAH101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion Unit 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler | ||
Heinrich Kling (10 September 1913 – 30 September 1951) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era, who served with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH).
Kling graduated from the SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz in 1938. On November 14, 1939 he joined the 12th SS Totenkopf Standarte in Łódź, which shot a thousand residents of the psychiatric hospital in Owinsk near Poznań. He participated in so called operations against "partisans", which meant the execution of Polish intellectuals and Jews. For his service he was awarded with the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the War Merit Cross with swords. Prior to Operation Barbarossa he came to the Leibstandarte.
Since late November 1943 the SS Panzer Regiment 1 was commanded by Joachim Peiper, who made Kling leader of the 2nd Battalion. Peiper also nominated Kling for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which Kling reveived on 23 February 1944.