Georg Feig

Background

Georg Feig was born on 27 February 1899, in the town of Annaberg in Saxony, Germany to Karl and Mina Feig.

Education

Feig completed an apprenticeship and business related studies in 1916.

Career

101 on 21 June 1917. Feig was discharged from active duty on April 1, 1919. Feig"s rank upon discharge was that of Grenadier (Private). Pre-War Nazi Germany

In 1934, a year before the official rearmament of Germany began, Feig took part in military exercises with local units, the 10th and 11th Infantry Regiments.

A year later, and now a Gefreiter, Feig exercised with the 1st Schützen-Regiment.

A unit eventually incorporated into the 1st Panzer Division. Now attached to the 1st Schützen-Regiment, Feig was promoted in relatively short succession from Gefreiter to Unteroffizier and then to Wachtmeister in March and August 1937, respectively.

Second World War

By the Invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the newly promoted Leutnant Feig was leading a platoon in 8th Company of the 1st Schützen-Regiment. During the campaigns in Belgium and France in May and June 1940, Feig, now an Oberleutnant, was in command of the 7th Company of the 1st Schützen-Regiment.

= Barbarossa Feig led 3rd Company of the 113th Schützen-Regiment as the 1st Panzer Division spearheaded the advance into Soviet territory.

After convalescing from a wound received in June, Feig returned to his division in September as it prepared to assault the city of Leningrad. Feig"s division, after the siege upon Leningrad subsided, was withdrawn, in order to participate in the planned assault upon Moscow. Feig"s unit, again, spearheaded the division"s advance.

Promotions

10.3.1935 - Gefreiter d.R. University

Reserve-Offizier-Anwärter (Lance Corporal of the Reserve and Reserve Officer Candidate)

3.1.1937 - Unteroffizier d.R. University Reserve-Offizier-Anwärter (Sergeant of the Reserve and Reserve Officer Candidate)

8.10.1937 - Wachtmeister d.R. University

Reserve-Offizier-Anwärter (Sergeant Major of the Reserve and Reserve Officer Candidate)

1.1.1939 - Leutnant d.R. (2nd Lieutenant of the Reserve)

4.1.1940 - Oberleutnant d.R. (1st Lieutenant of the Reserve)

1.1.1942 - Hauptmann d.R. (Captain of the Reserve)

2.1.1943 - Major d.R. (Major of the Reserve)

6.1.1944 - Oberstleutnant d.R. (Lieutenant Colonel of the Reserve)

Decorations and awards

Iron Cross 2nd Class on 12 September 1918

Sudetenland Medal on 6 November 1939

Iron Cross 1st Class on 25 July 1940

Panzer Assault Badge on 1 November 1940

Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross on 4 December 1941 as Oberleutnant of the Reserve and chief of the 3./Schützen-Regiment 113

Wound Badge in Black on 7 March 1942

Wound Badge in Silver on 30 January 1944

German Cross in Gold on 23 May 1944

Close Combat Clasp in Bronze on 29 June 1944

Bibliography.

Achievements

• In September 1918 Feig earned his first award, the Iron Cross 2nd Class, in what would ultimately prove to be a highly decorated military career. Feig received his second award, the Sudetenland Medal, for his regiment"s participation in the German annexation of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. lieutenant was during these actions that Feig"s service was recognized by the awarding of the Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross. Clasp to the Iron Cross 2nd Class on 26 May 1940.

Membership

The following year found Feig working in a management capacity for a large toy manufacturing firm before joining the German Imperial Army to fight in the First World War as a member of Grenadier-Regiment Kaiser Wilhelm, König von Preußen (2 Königlich Sächsisches) Near