Career
In April 1941, the Germany Army invaded Yugoslavia and then Greece. Klingenberg, a company commander in the Das Reich division, led his unit to the capital, Belgrade, where a small group in the vanguard accepted the surrender of the city on 13 April. A few days later Yugoslavia surrendered.
On 21 December 1944, Fritz Klingenberg was promoted to Steamship-Standartenführer and two weeks later (on 12 January 1945) was appointed to command the 17th Steamship Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen.
On 23 March 1945, Klingenberg was killed by a tank shell during a firefight on the western edge of Herxheim and is buried at the German War Cemetery in Andilly, France. Bibliography.