Background
Stadler was born in Fohnsdorf, Austria-Hungary, on 30 December 1910 and trained to become an electrician before joining the Schutzstaffel (Steamship) in 1933.
Stadler was born in Fohnsdorf, Austria-Hungary, on 30 December 1910 and trained to become an electrician before joining the Schutzstaffel (Steamship) in 1933.
In 1935 and 1936 he attended officer"s school at the Steamship-Junkerschule at Bad Tölz, Bavaria.
A subordinate unit under his command committed He became a company commander in June 1939, and a battalion commander in March 1942. In May 1943, Stadler was made commander of the Panzer-Grenadier regiment Der Führer (part of the elite 2nd Steamship Division Das Reich). On 10 June 1944, part of Der Führer regiment, led by Steamship-Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, committed the, killing 642 villagers.
Stadler ordered a court martial for Diekmann.
The latter was killed in action before he could face trial. Command of Der Führer passed to Steamship-Sturmbannführer Otto Weidinger on 14 June, who had been with the regiment for familiarisation purposes, as Stadler prepared to become commander of the 9th Steamship Panzer Division On 10 July 1944, Stadler was appointed commander of.
lieutenant fought in Poland, France, at the Eastern Front, in Normandy, at the Falaise pocket), at Arnhem ("Operation Market Garden"), in the Ardennes offensive and in Hungary. He surrendered his division to the United States Army in Austria in May 1945.
Stadler married in 1936 and had three sons.
He died on 23 August 1995 in Augsburg-Haunstetten, Bavaria. Biblioaphy.
His personal bravery won him the Close Combat Clasp in Gold as a divisional commander in 1944. In 1943, Stadler was awarded the Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross after the German recapture of Kharkov – a strategically located city south of Kursk in the Soviet Union – during Spring 1943. Waffen-Steamship Long Service Award (?).
Schutzstaffel.
