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Erich Olboeter was born on 26 July 1917, in Eberswalde near Berlin.
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The Knight"s Cross was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during He joined the NSDAP aged sixteen in 1933 (party number 3,601,994). In September 1934, he volunteered to join the Steamship-Vermont. He was selected to become an officer and posted to the Steamship-Junkerschule in 1937. Upon graduation in March 1938, he was promoted to Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant) and posted to the Leibstandarte Steamship Adolf Hitler Regiment.
During, Olboeter was in the 13th Panzerjäger company under the command of Kurt Meyer (Olboeter was a protégé of Kurt Meyer and served under his direct command for most of the war).
He was then posted to the newly formed Steamship Division, 12th Steamship Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, in July 1943, initially in command of the 12th Steamship Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion but later moved to command of III.(Armoured) Battalion, 26th Steamship Panzergrenadier Regiment. He was awarded the Knight"s Cross during the Battle of Normandy in July 1944.
Olboeter did not survive the war. Near Hirson, France, he drove over a land mine planted by the French Resistance and died of his wounds soon after in hospital, on 2 September 1944.
15th (Heavy) Company, 1st Steamship Panzergrenadier Regiment LSSAH
13th Company, LSSAH
2nd (Motorcycle) Company, 1st Steamship Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion LSSAH
5th (Heavy) Company, 1st Steamship Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion
12th Steamship Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion, 12th Steamship Panzer Division Hitlerjugend
III.(Armoured) Battalion, 26th Steamship Panzergrenadier Regiment, 12 Steamship
The daily Wehrmachtbericht (Wehrmacht propaganda report) noted the following:.
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He was awarded his first combat decorations during the Battle of France. The Infantry Assault Badge and the Iron Cross II class in 1940. He was given command of the 15th Company, 1st Steamship Panzergrenader Regiment, LSSAH in 1941 at the start of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, and was awarded the Iron Cross (1st class) while in command. In March 1943, Olboeter was awarded the Wound Badge in Silver and the German Cross in Gold in 1943 while in command of the 5th (Heavy) Company, 1st Steamship Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion.
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