Karl von Oberkamp full list of awards

[Andrew Harris]

Hi, guys.

I'm currently searching for the full list of awards of the Karl Ferdinand Reichsritter von Oberkamp. I have already searched in the www & here, on the forum. No results. Could anyone helps me?

Greetings, Rostyslav.

[freddiefro]

Here's the awards listed for Oberkamp in "The SS-Brigadeführer 1933-1945" by Michael D. Miller & Andreas Schulz:

Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse: 19.09.1914
Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse: 06.07.1916
k.u.k. Österreichisches Militärverdienstkreuz 3. Klasse mit der Kriegsdekoration: 24.01.1916
Ritterkreuz 2. Klasse des Herzoglich Sachsen-Ernestinischen Hausordens mit Schwertern: 01.05.1915
Bayerischer Militärverdienstorden IV. Klasse mit Schwertern: 09.07.1916
Tiroler Kriegsdenkmünze: 00.00.1930
Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer: 01.04.1935
War Commemorative Medal (for World War I) (Hungary): 1931
Spange zum Eisernen Kreuz II. Klasse: 22.09.1939
Spange zum Eisernen Kreuz I. Klasse: 10.07.1940
Kriegsverdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern
Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern
Wehrmacht-Dienstauszeichnung IV. Klasse: 02.10.1936
Heeresbergführer-Abzeichen: 1937
Medaille “Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42”: 1942
SA-Sportabzeichen in Gold: 05.06.1934
Ehrendegen des Reichsführers-SS
Totenkopfring der SS
Julleuchter der SS

He was recommended for the Deutsches Kreuz in Gold (as SS-Oberführer, Kdr. SS-Inf.-Rgt.“Germania“) dated 16.12.1941; proposal subsequently rejected.

Fred

[Andrew Harris]

Thank you very much, Fred!

So, as I understand it is him on this portrait? Do you also have information about units, where he was a commander during 1930-1940?

Source: eBay.

[freddiefro]

…where he was a commander during 1930-1940?

Great photo! Mark C. Yerger, in his book "Waffen-SS Commanders, vol.2," has the following for Oberkamp's time between 1930 & 1940:

Joined the RAD: 01.04.1933
Head of the RAD group 305 until 10.1933
Joined the SA: 06.05.1934
Posted to SA training camp command as a training camp commander in Luttensee until 03.1935
Re-joined the Army (as Oberleutnant): 03.1935
Commander of the 3rd Machine Gun Company until 08.1935
Commander of the 8./Jägerregiment 63 until 10.1936
Promoted Major: 18.01.1937
Commander of the 12./Gebirgsjäggerretiment 99 until 10.1937
Assigned to 27.Infanterie-Division: 10.1937 - 03.1938
Divisional Adjutant of the 3.Gebirgsdivision: 01.04.1938 - 1.11.1938
Joined the SS as SS-Sturmbannführer: 01.11.1938
Taught tactics at SS-Führerschule Tölz until 01.1939
Similar assignment at SS-Junkerschule Braunschweig until 06.1939
Commander of II./LSSAH: 01.06.1939 - 04.06.1940
Commander of III./Infanterie-Regiment "Deutschland": 04.6.1940 - 09.11.1940
Promoted SS-Obersturmbannführer: 01.07.1940
Commander SS-Regiment "Germania": 01.12.1940

Fred

[Andrew Harris]

Once more thank you, Fred!

Rostyslav.