Born: 13.11.1917 in Köln
MIA in Stalingrad
joined 2nd Company of Panzerregiment 1 as a recruit in 1937/38,
served in the 2nd Company during the Polish and French Campaigns (radio operator in a Panzerkampfwagen II),
transferred in August 1940 to the 1st Company of Panzerabteilung A and shortly thereafter, to the 1st Company of Panzerregiment 18,
transferred in 1942 to the newly formed Panzerabteilung 160 (1st Company),
listed as missing in Stalingrad, last rank: Stabsgefreiter