Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock

SS-Oberführer (Senior Colonel) Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock (1897–1978) was a German Waffen-SS officer who during his career commanded three SS-divisions, the 9.SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen, the 4.SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division and the Latvian 19.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS. He was also a winner of the ''Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub.

Dates of rank

 * SS-Sturmbannführer (Major) der Reserve: 11 November 1941
 * SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) der Reserve: 5 January 1942
 * SS-Standartenführer (Colonel): 9 November 1943
 * SS-Oberführer (Senior Colonel): 1 August 1944

Notable decorations

 * Eastern Front Medal (1942)
 * Iron Cross Second (?) and First (1941) Classes
 * Clasp to the Iron Cross Second (1941)
 * Wound Badge in Black (?)
 * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (1943)
 * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves (1944)
 * Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 (1934)