Hans Dorr

Hans Dorr (April 7, 1912 – April 17, 1945) was a German Waffen-SS Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) who served with the 5. SS-Panzer-Division Wiking and was a commander of the SS-Regiment Germania. He was wounded 16 times during World War II and died at a Field hospital near Judenburg only a month before the war's end. He was also awarded the prestigious Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern, Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.

Dates of rank

 * SS-Anwärter: May 1, 1933
 * SS-Mann: October 1, 1934
 * SS-Rottenführer: June 1, 1935
 * SS-Unterscharführer: November 15, 1935
 * SS-Scharführer: April 20, 1937
 * SS-Oberscharführer: December 23, 1934
 * SS-Oberjunker: April 1, 1938
 * SS-Untersturmführer: November 9, 1938
 * SS-Obersturmführer: March 11, 1940
 * SS-Hauptsturmführer: November 9, 1941
 * SS-Sturmbannführer: November 9, 1943
 * SS-Obersturmbannführer: August 18, 1944

Notable Awards

 * Iron Cross (1939)
 * 2nd Class (14 November 1939)
 * 1st Class (20 August 1940)
 * Sudetenland Medal with Clasp(12 June 1940)
 * Infantry Assault Badge in Silver (20 April 1942)
 * Wound Badge (1939)
 * Black (20 October 1940)
 * Silver (20 August 1941)
 * Gold (20 April 1942)
 * Eastern Front Medal (1 September 1942)
 * Tank Destruction Badges for Individual Combatants (28 April 1944)
 * German Cross in Gold (27 December 1941)
 * Close Combat Clasp
 * Bronze (15 September 1943)
 * Silver (3 May 1944)
 * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
 * Knight's Cross on 27 November 1942 as Hauptsturmführer and chief of the 4./SS-Infanterie-Regiment "Germania"
 * 327th Oak Leaves on 13 November 1943 as Hauptsturmführer and commander of the I./SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Germania"
 * 77th Swords on 9 July 1944 as Sturmbannführer and commander of SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 9 "Germania"