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Otto Binnig

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Allegiance
  
Nazi Germany

Rank
  
Unteroffizier

Name
  
Otto Binnig

Years of service
  
1942–45

Other work
  
Farmer

Service/branch
  
German Army

Unit
  
3./Grenadier-Regiment 463

Battles/wars
  
World War II Siege of Leningrad Baltic Offensive Riga Offensive (1944) Courland Pocket

Died
  
May 27, 2005, Mosbach, Germany

Awards
  
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Battles and wars
  
Siege of Leningrad, Baltic Offensive, Riga Offensive, Courland Pocket, World War II

Otto Binnig (18 December 1923 – 27 May 2005) was a highly decorated Unteroffizier in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Otto Binnig was captured by Soviet troops in the Courland Pocket in May 1945, he was released in 1949.

Awards and decorations

  • Iron Cross (1939)
  • 2nd Class (10 March 1943)
  • 1st Class (15 March 1944)
  • Wound Badge
  • in Black (6 November 1943)
  • in Silver (20 September 1944)
  • Infantry Assault Badge (10 March 1944)
  • Tank Destruction Badge for Individual Combatants (3 March 1944)
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 5 October 1944 as Obergefreiter and messenger in the 7./Grenadier-Regiment 463

    • References

    Otto Binnig Wikipedia
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