Years of service 1930–43 Name Rudolf Geisler | Commands held Pionier-Bataillon 662 Service/branch German Army | |
Allegiance Weimar Republic (to 1933)
Nazi Germany Rank Oberstleutnant (posthumous) Battles/wars World War II
Invasion of Poland
Battle of France
Operation Barbarossa
Eastern Front † Relations Siegfried Geisler (brother) Died April 13, 1944, Kovel, Ukraine Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Battles and wars World War II, Invasion of Poland, Battle of France, Operation Barbarossa, Eastern Front | ||
Rudolf Geisler (29 March 1911 – 13 April 1944) was a highly decorated Oberstleutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub). The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade the Oak Leaves was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Rudolf Geisler was severely wounded in defense of Kovel on 11 April 1944 by an artillery round while detaching from the front. He succumbed to his injury, a splinter wound in the pelvis, at the field hospital at Kovel on 13 April 1944, the same day he was awarded the Oak Leaves.
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