He was awarded the Knight's Cross in October 1943, when with a kampfgruppe (battle group) consisting of one Panzer VI, five Panzer IVs and six Panzer IIIs, without orders, he launched a counterattack to halt a Russian breakthrough.
Panzer | Panzer IV | Panzer III | Panzer-Grenadier-Division Großdeutschland | panzer | Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring | 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich | Jag Panzer | 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen | 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg | StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops | Panzer General: Allied Assault | Panzer division | 6th Panzer Army | Panzer VI (disambiguation) | Panzer VI | Panzer Group West's | Panzer Dragoon II Zwei | Panzer Dragoon | Panzer Army ''Afrika'' | Marty Panzer | Girls und Panzer | Attack on Panzer Group West's headquarters at La Caine | 510th Heavy Panzer Battalion | 3rd Panzer Army | ''3. Panzer-Division'' | 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler | 1st Panzer Army | 17. SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Götz von Berlichingen" | 15th ''Panzer'' Division |