Hans Dauser was a Untersturmführer

Untersturmführer

Untersturmführer was a paramilitary rank of the German Schutzstaffel first created in July 1934. The rank can trace its origins to the older SA rank of Sturmführer which had existed since the founding of the SA in 1921...

 (Second Lieutenant) in the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler

1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler

The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler was Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard. Initially the size of a regiment, the LSSAH eventually grew into a divisional-sized unit...

. He was born in Munich

Munich

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 on the 31 July 1908, the son of Staatssekretär

Secretary of State

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 Hans Dauser senior (later SS-Brigadeführer

Brigadeführer

SS-Brigadeführer was an SS rank that was used in Nazi Germany between the years of 1932 and 1945. Brigadeführer was also an SA rank....

 (Major General) and Staatsrat

Staatsrat

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the State Council of the German Democratic Republic (German: Staatsrat der DDR) was officially the highest organ of the German Democratic Republic, and for many years the collective president of the country (per Article 66 of the Constitution of East Germany). Dauser was a member of the Freikorps

Freikorps

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 between 1922 and 1924 and later in 1934 was a Reichsheer(Imperial German Army) veteran. After graduating from the State High School he studied to be an architect

Architect

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. He joined the NSDAP in 1930 and the Allgemeine SS

Allgemeine SS

The Allgemeine SS was the most numerous branch of the Schutzstaffel paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany. It was managed by the SS-Hauptamt...

 in 1933.

He was assigned to the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler serving as a platoon leader in the II/Battalion, SS Panzer Regiment 1 LSSAH.

He was responsible for the destruction of 34 enemy tanks, and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

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 while still an Oberscharführer

Oberscharführer

Oberscharführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that existed between the years of 1932 and 1945. Translated as “Senior Squad Leader”, Oberscharführer was first used as a rank of the Sturmabteilung and was created due to an expansion of the enlisted positions required by growing SA membership...

 (Staff Sergeant).
He was later promoted to Untersturmführer

Untersturmführer

Untersturmführer was a paramilitary rank of the German Schutzstaffel first created in July 1934. The rank can trace its origins to the older SA rank of Sturmführer which had existed since the founding of the SA in 1921...

 (Second Lieutenant).
Dauser survived the war and died in Munich in 2001.

Awards

• Iron Cross 2nd class 5 December 1943
• Iron Cross 1st class 30 January 1944
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 4 June 1944

See also

• Waffen SS
• 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
  1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
  The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler was Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard. Initially the size of a regiment, the LSSAH eventually grew into a divisional-sized unit...
  
  
• List of Knight's Cross holders 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler