Sylvester 'Syl' Eitel Frithof Haase
Born: 25 June 1929, in Berlin, Reg. Bez. Potsdam
Religion: No predominant religion, simply believer in God: 'god believing'
Last place of service: Cottbus Wehrverhaeltnis.
Wehrverhaeltnis
Last unit within the Wehrmacht: Watchregiment GD
Day of Dismissal: dismissed from Flag oath 02. May 1945
Rank reached within Wehrmacht: Panzergrenadier (tank grenadier)
Called into the Wehrmacht: 24 January 1945
Medals and Awards. (no dates given)
HJL: while in Mot 4/201 -awarded by Bafu Otto (while at school)
HJ Shooting Ensign: awarded by Bafu Otto (while at school)
KVM (War Service Medal): awarded by Bannführer Georg Kuschel (while at school)
A separate note states, KVM received from the Reichsministry for the occupied Eastern Areas.
Panzer Destruction Award: awarded by Maj. Lehnhoff (while in GD)
EK ll: awarded by Maj. Lehnhoff (while in GD)
As of 1944, Syl was: Hitler Youth in the Motorized Hitler Youth, Gefolgschaft 4, Bann 37, District Berlin . This was located in the Adolf Hitler Heim, Berlin Gruenewald, KönigsAllee 43-45. Syl noted his rank at school as Röttenführer (Rttf.) Presumably just after 20 July 1944, Syl returned to Berlin and for 3 weeks worked as a information adjudant as in the Reich Ministry of Interior.
February 1945, enlistment in the Wehrwolf. 4 x 14 Days training at the Reich sports field with another 150 Men. Trainer is Feldwebel Ihle, who wore the Deutsches Kreuz in Gold. He signs the prevalent enlistment for the Panzergrenadier Division Großdeutschland.
Kampfgruppe Norden was formed in 1982 as Lehr Kampfgruppe Norden, an infantry section of Ontario-based reenactors. Originally formed around a core of reenactors portraying the Waffen-SS Wiking Division, and named: Kampfgruppe Norden.
The group at the time, was commanded by Grenadier Sylvester Haase, a German veteran of the Second World War, and much of the group's training, influence, direction and accuracy can be attributed to Herrn Haase.
With the untimely passing of Grenadier Haase on February 14, 2003, the Unterführern and Männschaften of Kampfgruppe Norden voted unanimously to honour the memory of Grenadier Haase by renaming the group, Kampfgruppe Haase.
