Tiger 323 Brandenburg Gate 1945

[Hans N]

The Kingtiger was towed in the hours before cause he had a damage on the track. He was towed by a Bergepanther to the "Reichskanzlei"(few hundred meters away)and after the track was repaired the Tiger go back on the position in front of the "Potsdamer Bahnhof"(your image) where he was abondened finaly on the same day.

Thanks for the very interesting information

[Hans N]

Couldn´t get one thing out of my mind regarding that King Tiger.


If it has a damaged track, why tow it? It don´t make sense to me, towing it would damage it even more. Same thing would happen if it was driven IMHO!

[Fightclub]

Hello Hans N,

I couldn´t tell you what happend exactly on that day and I don´t know what kind of damage he had on the track(moveable/not moveable) but the Tiger had position on a central and importend place.

look here


That was his position, the "Potsdamer Platz" and it was his order to stop enemy there because it was the border of the government destrict(near the "Reichstag"). Left top corner the big building is the "Potsdamer Bahnhof"(the building in the background of your pic). He had to control 4 or 5 streets and it was importend that he was able to move forward or backward. If he was not able to move he could be hit very quick cause he was alone on that place without any flank support.

I think he was in a very "hot" position and they had to towed him out there quickly. He was towed in direction to the "Reichstag" to a little more save but also controling position. After the track was fixed again he moves back to the place but had still problems to manoeuvre. That was the reason why he was abondened later in the evening.

[Dallas]

So this would be the mount of Unterscharfurher Karl-Heinz Turk of the Schwere SS Panzerabteilung 503 then.

Does anyone know the final disposition of Untersharfuhrer Georg Diers Tiger II nr. 314 and have a pic?

[LEV]

HI!

Do you have any idea who was the commander of the Tiger I (turret number 323) that was destroyed in Tiergarten near the Brandenburg Gate? I assume that this tank was part of the Pz Rgt Müncheberg, but which battalion/company/platoon?

Hi,


I´ve got this pic in my files and i beleave it´s the same MüncheBerg 323 Tiger

[ardennes1944]

So this would be the mount of Unterscharfurher Karl-Heinz Turk of the Schwere SS Panzerabteilung 503 then.

Does anyone know the final disposition of Untersharfuhrer Georg Diers Tiger II nr. 314 and have a pic?

Hi,
the tiger of DIERS was destroyed by a mine anti-tank device put inside the tank by DIERS itself on may 2,1945.

phil

[PanzerJohn]

What a shame it wasn't preserved...the very last Tiger!.

[PANZERPIONIERE]

Great thread!

[Aave Johns]

Couldn´t get one thing out of my mind regarding that King Tiger.


If it has a damaged track, why tow it? It don´t make sense to me, towing it would damage it even more. Same thing would happen if it was driven IMHO!

That would really depend on the type of damage done to the track. You can drop the track and run a tank on its road wheels if necessary to move it, they may have done that. We can only guess at what they did 60 years later.

Regards;

Johnsy