Georg Schönberger

Georg Schönberger

Born	21 December 1911 Munich, Germany
Died	20 November 1943(1943-11-20) (aged 31) Brusilov, Ukraine
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Waffen-SS
Years of service	1933–43
Rank	Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel)
Unit	1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
Battles/wars	World War II
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Iron Cross 1st Class Iron Cross 2nd Class Eastern Front Medal German Cross in Gold Tank Destruction Badge in silver

Georg Schönberger (21 December 1911 — 20 November 1943) was an Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) in the Waffen-SS who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. During Operation Marita Schönberger was in command of the Sturmgeschütz (Assault gun) Battalion LSSAH.^[1] He was later given command of the I/Battalion, SS Panzer Regiment 1. It was during his command of the 1st SS Panzer Regiment that he was killed in action by artillery shrapnel on November 20, 1943 in the Zhitomir fighting.^[2] and was awarded a posthumous Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross in December 1943.

Commands

1st Battery, Stug Battalion LSSAH 1940 (SS-Hauptsturmführer)
1st SS Panzer Battalion LSSAH 1942 (SS-Sturmbannführer)
1st SS Panzer Regiment LSSAH 14 October 1942 - 20 November 1943 (SS-Obersturmbannführer) ^[3]

References

↑ "waffen.ss".
↑ The 1st SS Panzer Division in the Battle of the Bulge By Steve Kane p.148
↑ "frontkemper".

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler

SS-Division (motorized) SS-Infanterie-Regiment (motorized) "LSSAH"	Sepp Dietrich¹ (Oak Leaves, Swords & Diamonds) Gerhard Pleiß Heinrich Springer Theodor Wisch (Oak Leaves & Swords)

Stab	Rudolf Lehmann² (Oak Leaves)

SS-Panzer-Regiment 1 "LSSAH"	Josef Armberger Wilhelm Beck Hans Dauser Martin Groß Konrad Heubeck Heinrich Kling Herbert Kuhlmann Hans Malkomes Joachim Peiper³ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Werner Pötschke (Oak Leaves) Hans Reimling Rudolf von Ribbentrop Georg Schönberger Franz Staudegger Helmut Wendorff Michael Wittmann⁴ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Balthasar Woll Max Wünsche⁵ (Oak Leaves)

SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 1 "LSSAH"	Hermann Dahlke Albert Frey (Oak Leaves) Erich Göstl Erich Grätz Max Hansen (Oak Leaves) Frank Hasse Heinz Nowotnik Alfred Schneidereit Fritz Witt⁶ (Oak Leaves)

SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 2 "LSSAH"	Hans Becker Josef Diefenthal Gerhard Grebarsche Paul Guhl Georg Karck Hugo Kraas (Oak Leaves) Joachim Peiper³ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Georg Preuß Rudolf Sandig Bernhard Siebken Werner Wolff

SS-Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 1 "LSSAH"	Alfred Günther Heinrich Heimann Fritz Henke Karl Rettlinger Emil Wiesemann

SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 1 "LSSAH"	Kurt Sametreiter

SS-(Panzer-)Aufklärungs-Abteilung 1 "LSSAH"	Gerhard Bremer⁷ (Oak Leaves) Gustav Knittel Kurt Meyer⁸ (Oak Leaves & Swords) Hermann Weiser

SS-Flakartillerie-Abteilung 1 "LSSAH"	Walter Pitsch?

SS-Panzergrenadier Ausbildungs und Ersatz-Bataillon 1 "LSSAH"	Friedrich Blond?

¹Diamonds with the I SS Panzer Corps. ²Oak Leaves with the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. ³Knight's Cross with SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 2, Oak Leaves and Swords with SS-Panzer-Regiment 1. ⁴Swords with 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion. ⁵Oak Leaves with SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 "Hitlerjugend" (12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend). ⁶Knight's with SS-Infanterie-Regiment "Deutschland" (2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich). ⁷Oak Leaves with SS-Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 12 "Hitlerjugend" (12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend). ⁸Swords with the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. This along with the ? (question mark) indicates doubt regarding the veracity and formal correctness of the listing.

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