Career
Fritz Rentrop was born on the 19 November 1917. He joined the NSDAP on the 1 January 1936, party number 3708280 and later joined the Waffen Steamship on the 1 April 1937, his Steamship service number was 323 804. He was posted to the 2nd Steamship Panzer Division Das Reich and served with the 2nd Company, 2nd Steamship Flak Battalion when he was awarded the Knight"s Cross, on the 13 October 1941.
He later served on the staff in the IV Steamship Panzer Corps and is believed to have been executed by the Russians on the 2 February 1945 in Hungary.