Awards
- Wound Badge in Silver (21 August 1943)
- Iron Cross (1939)
- 2nd Class (25 September 1939)
- 1st Class (15 June 1940)
- Eastern Front Medal
- Tank Destruction Badge
- Infantry Assault Badge (3 October 1940)
- German Cross in Gold on 26 December 1941 as SS-Sturmbannführer in the III./SS-Infanterie-Regiment 3
- Demyansk Shield (31 December 1943)
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
- Knight's Cross on 8 May 1942 as SS-Sturmbannführer and commander of the III./SS-Totenkopf-Infanterie-Regiment 3
- 277th Oak Leaves on 22 August 1943 as SS-Obersturmbannführer and commander SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Totenkopf"
- 95th Swords on 2 September 1944 as SS-Standartenführer and commander 2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich"
- Mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht on 29 July 1944
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