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ernst haussler

Rank: SS-Standartenfuhrer

Unit: Kdr. II./SS-Pz.Gren.Rgt 5

D.O.B.: 31. Mar. 1914

D.O.D.: 14. Jul. 1949

"Totenkopf" Knight's Cross Winners

awards

  • Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes
  • Deutsches Kreuz in Gold 
  • Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse
  • Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse
  • Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen in Bronze 
  • Verwundetenabzeichen, 1939 in Silber
  • Verwundetenabzeichen, 1939 in Schwarz
  • Medaille “Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42” 
  • Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP in Bronze 
  • SS-Dienstauszeichnungen
  • Deutsches Reichssportabzeichen in Bronze
  • SA-Sportabzeichen in Bronze
  • Abzeichen der Deutschen Lebensrettungsgesellschaft in Silber
  • Ehrendegen des Reichsführers-SS
  • Totenkopfring der SS
  • Julleuchter der SS
  • Ehrenwinkel für alte Kämpfer

promotions

  • SA-Mann - 07.10.1931
  • SS-Unterscharführer - 20.04.1935 
  • SS-Untersturmführer - 20.04.1938 
  • SS-Obersturmführer - 11.09.1938 
  • SS-Hauptsturmführer - 20.04.1940
  • SS-Sturmbannführer - 21.06.1943
  • SS-Obersturmbannführer - 01.09.1944
  • SS-Standartenführer - 20.04.1945



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Ernst Häussler was born on 31 March 1914 at Württemberg. 

He volunteered to join the SS in May 1933 and given the service number 217,862. His NSDAP party number was 1,150,866. 

After enlistment, he was assigned to the SS-Standarte "Deutschland". 

He was promoted to Unterscharführer in April 1935, and the following year was selected to be an officer and posted to the SS-Junkerschule at Braunschweig.

After graduation he was posted back to the SS-VT in Oberbayern and served at Dachau concentration camp between 1936 and 1939.

In 1940, Häussler was posted to the newly formed SS Totenkopf Division as the commander of its 5th company. He was awarded the Iron Cross (2nd class) in June 1940 and the Wound Badge in Black for his first wound of the war. 

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He participated in the invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) and was awarded the Iron Cross (1st class) in July 1941. 

He was later awarded the Winter War 1941/42 medal. In April 1943 he was awarded the German Cross in Gold and was then promoted to Sturmbannführer in June 1943. 

This was followed by the award of the Knight's Cross in August 1943.

Häussler went on to command the 1.SS-Totenkopf-Reserve-Battalion before a posting as a battalion commander in the 17.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Götz von Berlichingen". 

He later returned to the SS Totenkopf, as the commander of 5th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment "Totenkopf".

Häussler survived the war and died of heart failure on 14 July 1979 at Öhringen


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DISCLAIMER: 2. Kompanie is a non-political organization. We do not support naziism, or fascism. We are not associated with nor do we condone the actions of the Third Reich or the actual 3.SS Division.

Anything posted is for educational purposes only; So that the devastating catastrophe that was the Second World War, and the atrocities committed therein never happen again. 
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