Awards and Achievements
- Wound Badge in black (8 July 1941)
- Eastern Front Medal (20 August 1941)
- Iron Cross 2nd Class (15 September 1942)
- Iron Cross 1st Class (23 November 1943)
- Wound Badge in Silver (15 December 1943)
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
- Knight's Cross on 4 May 1944 as Leutnant of the Reserves and Zugführer in the 2./schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502
- 535th Oak Leaves on 27 July 1944 as Leutnant of the Reserves and leader of the2./schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502
- Panzer Badge in Silver
- 2nd Grade (15 July 1944)
- 3rd Grade (1 September 1944)
- Wound Badge in Gold (11 September 1944)
Total victories (kills):
- 150+ tanks, majority on the Eastern Front.
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