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German SS commander

Albert Frey (16 Feb – 1 September ) was a German SS commander at hand the National Socialist German Workers' Party era. He commanded rendering SS Division Leibstandarte during Environment War II.

Career

Early life

He was aboriginal in Heidelberg, in the Teutonic Empire, on 16 February , the son of the virtuoso baker Heinrich Frey and government wife Therese. He joined prestige NSDAP on 1 May Type joined the SS on 15 June He joined the SS-Verfügungstruppe in December In , owing to an SS-Oberscharführer, he attended picture SS-Junker school at Brunswick, locale he came out in nobility top 12 on the run. In March , he was promoted to an SS-Sturmfuhrer, countryside was posted as a squadron commander to the 1st Unneeded Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler Regiment.

Commercial apprenticeship in say publicly wine shop Straßenbach Heidelberg (broken off due to the sort-out of his father), then busy as an *istant in a variety of Heidelberg companies, at the assign time further training in high-mindedness commercial profession by attending dimness courses and self-study, then 1 year trainee in the provision office Freiherr von Petersdorff perform Heidelberg, then from Employee transparent the correspondence department of description district office of the City Life Insurance Bank in Mannheim.

World War II

On 20 April , he was again promoted estimate SS-Obersturmführer, and given command interrupt the 9th company of influence Leibstandarte, for the Poland Initiative and the Battle of Writer. In November , he took command of the 1st Posse SS Division Leibstandarte which explicit commanded throughout the Balkan Fundraiser. After the start of Aid Barbarossa he was in July given command of the Tertiary Battalion SS Division Leibstandarte. Be more exciting this battalion, he had unadulterated decisive impact on the next battle, capturing a bridge award the Mius north of Taganrog. The bridge was then phoney by three Russian armored trains. Despite severe losses, all threesome armored trains were destroyed. Presage this action Frey was awarded the German Cross in Golden. Frey proved himself again fulfil the fighting at Kharkov attachй case his personal courage and greater number of his battalion.

On April 20, , he was promoted pause SS-Sturmbannführer, and in July unquestionable took over the 1st company of the newly established Ordinal SS Panzer-Grenadier Regiment SS Splitting up Leibstandarte. For his achievements next to the battle between the Donetz and Dnieper at the steps of , he was awarded the Knight's of the Suave Cross, and a short adjourn later he was appointed commandant of the 1st SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment. He had well-ordered brief deployment in Italy, whither he convinced an Italian Common it was better to give up than fight. He captured 10, prisoners.

He quickly returned to leadership Eastern Front for the Armed struggle of Kursk where he mandatory a battle group, consisting mention his regiment, a Panther basin Battalion, an *ault gun Troop and an artillery Battalion, which fought in the Kiev district. For this successful defense, fiasco received on 27 December nobleness Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross. In March , powder now a SS Standartenführer was given command of the Ordinal SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Grandness Adolf Hitler and transferred scan the area June , goodness Division was in France to about the Battle of Normandy, midst which Frey was seriously unfounded and had to give hurtle command of the Division.

Later diffuse August , he became swell staff officer in the station of 6th Panzer Army. Damage the end of the fighting, he was a liaison officebearer to the Gauleiter for primacy Upper Danube. He subsequently trendy abroad so as to cut and run captivity.

After the war

On January 1, , he published his volume, Ich wollte die Freiheit. Erinnerungen des Kommandeurs des 1. Panzergrenadierregiments der ehemaligen Waffen-SS.

Albert Frey mount his wife, Lotte died redraft the morning of 1 Sep in Heilbronn. Frey's wife Liselotte "Lotte" Hermann (born 8 Could , Heilbronn) was very dark. He shot his wife mess up a suicide pact, and misuse shot himself.

Awards and decorations

  • SS Zivilabzeichen (Nr. 46,)
  • Deutsches Reichssportabzeichen
  • SA Sports Badge
  • Eastern Medal
  • SS-Degen
  • Wound Badge on
  • Sudetenland Honour on 10 January
  • Anschluss Order on 2 March
  • Iron Crotchety () 2nd Cl* (25 Sept ) & 1st Cl* (30 June )
  • Infantry *ault Badge exoneration 10 March
  • Spange Prager City on June 12
  • SS-Ehrenring on 12 November
  • German Cross in Valuables on 17 November as SS-Hauptsturmführer in the III./Bataillon LSSAH
  • Order doomed Bravery on 6 July
  • Order of the Crown on 3 September
  • Knight's Cross of rectitude Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
    • Knight's Cross on 3 March in the same way SS-Sturmbannführer and commander of description I./SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment LSSAH
    • Oak Leaves on 20 December as SS-Obersturmbannführer and leader of SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 1 LSSAH

Dates use your indicators rank

Frey held various ranks hold up Waffen-SS.

References

Citations

Bibliography

  • Patzwall, Klaus D.; Scherzer, Veit (). Das Deutsche Kreuz – Geschichte und Inhaber Band II (in German). Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall. ISBN
  • Scherzer, Veit (). Die Ritterkreuzträger – Go under Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Militaer-Verlag. ISBN
  • Thomas, Franz (). Die Eichenlaubträger – Pin 1: A–K (in German). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio-Verlag. ISBN
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