Allegiance Nazi Germany Role SS officer Name Wilhelm Weber | Rank SS-Obersturmfuhrer Years of service 1937–45 Service/branch German Army | |
Battles/wars World War II
Invasion of Poland
Battle of France
Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Smolensk (1941)
Battle of Moscow
East Pomeranian Offensive
Battle of Berlin Died March 2, 1980, Bensheim, Germany Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Unit 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) Battles and wars Invasion of Poland, Battle of France | ||
Wilhelm Weber (19 March 1918 – 2 March 1980) was a mid-level commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a member of the SS Division Charlemagne and was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
In April 1945, about 350 men of the division volunteered to go to fight in the Battle of Berlin in a unit which became known as Sturmbataillon Charlemagne. Weber went with the group to Berlin as a group commander. During the fighting on 29 April, Weber was wounded and evacuated to the make-swift field hospital in the basement of the Reich Chancellery. It was his sixth combat wound of the war. While there he briefed area commander, SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke as to the situation along front lines of the government district. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross by Mohnke on 29 April.