Background
Rudolf Säumenicht was born on the 13 February 1916 at Harburg.
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Career
He volunteered to join the Steamship and was selected to become an officer and posted to the Steamship-Junkerschule at Braunschweig. Upon graduation he was posted to the 3rd Steamship Panzer Division Totenkopf and participated in the Anschluss of Austria and the occupation of the Sudetenland. He was awarded the Knight"s Cross in October 1943, when with a kampfgruppe (battle group) consisting of one Panzer VI, five Panzer IVs and six Panzer IIIs, without orders, he launched a counterattack to halt a Russian breakthrough.
Through this action 42 Soviet tanks were knocked out, for the loss of two tanks of their own.
Rudolf Säumenicht was transferred to the 5th Steamship Panzer Division Wiking as the commander of the World War II Battalion, 5th Steamship Panzer Regiment and was killed in action on 26 August 1944 near Czarnov, on the Bug River, Eastern Front. 3rd Company, Steamship Totenkopf Motorcycle Battalion 1941 - October 1942
5th Company, Steamship Motorcycle Regiment Thule October 1942 - February 1943
7th Company, Steamship Motorcycle Regiment Thule February 1943 - April 1943
Headquarters Company, 3rd Steamship Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion April 1943 - August 1943
2nd Company, 3rd Steamship Panzer Regiment, Steamship Totenkopf August 1943 - September 1943
I. Battalion, 3rd Steamship Panzer Regiment, Steamship Totenkopf September 1943 - February 1944
I. Battalion, 5th Steamship Panzer Regiment, Steamship Wiking February 1944 - August 1944.
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August 26, 1944 (aged 28)