Background
Euling was born on 16 August 1919 in Dorndorf, in the region of Eisenach.
Euling was born on 16 August 1919 in Dorndorf, in the region of Eisenach.
After the Volksschule, Euling attended a reform high school and passed his matriculation examination in February 1938.
He was awarded the Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during On 22 March 1932 he joined the Hitler Youth, where he earned the Hitler Youth Proficiency Badge and the Golden Hitler Youth Badge. On 1 September 1937 he joined the NSDAP. He volunteered to join the Steamship-Vermont on 1 April 1938, assigned to the 2 Company, Steamship Totenkopf and participated in the Polish Campaign with them. Euling was then selected to become an officer and posted to the Steamship-Junkerschule at Braunschweig between February and May 1940.
After graduation he was promoted to Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant) in August 1940.
He was promoted to Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in November 1943 and transferred to the western front on the staff of the II Steamship Panzer Corps. In June 1944 Euling was transferred to the 10th Steamship Panzer Division Frundsberg and given command of the I.Battalion, 21 Steamship Panzergrenadier Regiment, during the Battle of Normandy.
Having been withdrawn to the Arnhem area to reform they were well placed to respond to Operation Market Garden, the Allied parachute landings in the Netherlands. On 19 September 1944 Euling and his battalion (I/22) broke off from the house-to-house fighting and the position they had held at the bridge at Nijmegen that blocked the road leading to Arnhem.
Euling was awarded the Knight"s Cross for his leadership and command of the Battalion during the Normandy landings and the Battle of Arnhem.