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Erich Eberhardt was born in Wiesbaden on the 1 October 1913.
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This was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during In 1931 he joined the Hamburg police force. His first unit was the 8th Company, Steamship Standarte Germania. In 1936 he was selected to become an officer and sent to the Steamship-Junkerschule at Braunschweig, being promoted to Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant) upon graduation.
At the start of Eberhardt was a Hauptsturmführer (Captain) and company commander of the 12th Company, 9th Steamship Grenadier Regiment, Steamship Division Wiking.
Eberhardt was posted to the 7th Steamship Mountain Division Prinz Eugen between March 1942 to June 1943, as an officer of the General Staff. He was then posted as Iowa (Chief of Operations) to the General Staff of the 3rd Steamship Panzer Division Totenkopf in October 1943 and was promoted to Obersturmbannführer (Major) in April 1944.
Erich Eberhardt was awarded the Knight"s Cross for his actions in July–August 1944 in the area of Grodno. The Totenkopf was in action until the last days of the war, when Eberhardt ordered the division to retreat to the west with the aim of surrendering to the American forces.
After the war Eberhardt was active in HIAG, a lobby group and a revisionist veteran"s organisation founded by former high-ranking Waffen-Steamship personnel in West Germany in 1951.
After the death of the organisation"s spokesman Kurt Meyer in 1961, Eberhardt assumed that role. Eberhardt died at Lohrheim on the 1 July 1965, from heart failure. Bibliography.
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He then was one of the early members of the Steamship, which he joined in 1934 and was given the Steamship service number 272 747, Nazi Party Number 4 178 022.
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Nazi party