Bio of Hauptmann d.R. Johannes Rompzick (1920-1970)

Johannes Rompzick

Date of Birth: 30.09.1920 - Danzig (Freie Stadt Danzig)
Date of Death: 13.03.1970 - Hannover-Langenhagen, Niedersachsen (West Germany)

Promotions:
00.00.194_ Hauptmann der Reserve

Career:
00.00.194_ Führer 6.Kompanie / II.Bataillon / Grenadier-Regiment 18 / 6.Infanterie-Division

Awards and Decorations:
09.11.1941 Eisernes Kreuz II.Klasse
09.12.1941 Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen
00.00.194_ Eisernes Kreuz I.Klasse
06.07.1943 Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz
22.11.1943 Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes, as Leutnant der Reserve and Führer 6.Kompanie / II.Bataillon / Grenadier-Regiment 18 / 6.Infanterie-Division
05.12.1943 Nahkampfspange in Bronze
22.04.1944 Medaille "Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42" (Ostmedaille)

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Knight's Cross holder and regimental adjutant of Regiment 18, Johannes Rompzick did not perish in the "Cauldron of Bobruisk" as feared. He was taken prisoner by the Russians and remained in captivity for five years under the harshest of conditions. Released in 1949, he was unable to return to his native Danzig and settled instead in Hanover, where, as with many of his comrades, he quietly faded into the obscurity of civilian life, becoming the branch manager of a forwarding company. In 1952, Rompzich along with another former adjutant of Regiment 18, Jorg von Kalckreuth organized the first regimental reunion and established the Kameradschaftsbund of the 18th Regiment. Rompzick never fully recovered from the years of Soviet imprisonment and died at the age of fifty in 1970.

Source :
Jim Haley photo collection
"Soldiers to the Last Day: The Rhineland-Westphalian 6th Infantry Division 1935-1945" by Denis Havel
http://www.ritterkreuztraeger.info/rk/r.html
https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/35294/Rompzick-Johannes.htm