Awards
- Iron Cross (1914)
- 2nd Class (30 August 1918)
- Verwundetenabzeichen - Two awarded -one in WWI and second from Normandy Invasion.
- Panzer Badge in Silver
- "Afrika" Cuffband
- Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939)
- 2nd Class (13 September 1939)
- Iron Cross (19139)
- 1st Class (27 September 1939)
- German Cross in Gold on 23 October 1942 as Oberst in the General Staff in the Deutsches Afrika-Korps
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
- Knight's cross on 26 December 1941 as Oberstleutnant in the General Staff and Chief of the General Staff of the DAK
- 258th Oak leaves on 6 July 1943 as Oberst in the General Staff and Chief of Staff of the 1st Italian Army
- 81st Swords on 20 July 1944 as Generalleutnant and commander of the Panzer-Lehr-Division
- Mentioned two times in the Wehrmachtbericht on 11 January 1944 und 26 June 1944.
- Italian decorations from African Campaign: Cavaliere des Militaerordenes von Savoyen; Italienische Tapferkeitsmedalle in Silber (page 274, "Bayerlein: From Afrikakorps to Panzer Lehr...)
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