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Otto Carius was born on 27 May, 1922 in Zweibrücken, Weimar Republic, is a German tank commander. Discover Otto Carius's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?
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27 May 1922 |
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27 May |
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Zweibrücken, Weimar Republic |
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2015 |
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Herschweiler-Pettersheim, Germany |
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Otto Carius (27 May 1922 – 24 January 2015) was a German tank commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
Carius graduated from school in 1940, a year following the commencement of the Second World War.
He enlisted in the army and was only accepted after twice being rejected as unfit for military service for being underweight.
He first served in the infantry before volunteering for the Panzer branch; his father referred to tanks as "metal deathtraps."
He fought on the Eastern Front in 1943 and 1944 and on the Western Front in 1945.
Carius is considered a "panzer ace", some sources credited him with destroying more than 150 enemy tanks, although Carius, in an interview claims he had around 100 kills or less.
This was also due to the fact that he did not count kills as a commander, and rather only as a gunner.
He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.
Carius was transferred to the 502nd Heavy Panzer Battalion in 1943 and fought in the northern sectors of the Eastern Front.
He claimed in his autobiography that his gunner shot down a soviet plane attacking their tank, possibly an IL-2 with a Tiger I's 88mm main gun in late 1943 on the Eastern Front.
After the war, Carius studied pharmacy at Heidelberg University and set up a pharmacy which he named the "Tiger Apotheke" as a tribute to the Tiger tank.
At the beginning of 1945 he was made commander of a Jagdtiger company of the 512th Heavy Anti-tank Battalion, which by that time was engaged in fighting on the Western Front.
On 8 March 1945, the 2nd Company was directed to the front line near Siegburg, where it took part in the defense of the Rhine against the American forces crossing the river, with limited success.
Eventually, after being trapped in the Ruhr Pocket east of the Rhine, he ordered all his Jagdtigers destroyed to prevent enemy forces from capturing them intact and then surrendered to the US Army on 7 May.
He was released from captivity on 21 May, two weeks later.
He is considered a "panzer ace", credited with destroying more than 150 enemy tanks; most of his kill claims were on the Eastern Front.
He also authored a book about his wartime experiences called "Tigers in the Mud", which was released in 1960.
Carius ran his pharmacy until retiring in 2011.
He died on 24 January 2015 at age 92.
