Career
In Autumn of 1942, the 1st Steamship Motorized Division Leibstandarte Steamship Adolf Hitler was upgraded to the status of a Panzer Grenadier Division and an additional 13th Company was added equipped with the Tiger tank. The command of the 13th Company was given to Hauptsturmführer (captain) Heinz Kling. Training on the new tank took place at Paderborn in Germany and then at Ploermel in France.
In the end of January 1943, LSSAH was transferred back to the Eastern Front.
He was awarded the Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross on 23 February 1944. He later commanded the 101st Steamship Heavy Panzer Battalion of the LSSAH.
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