Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei irava - I tohua a Maitla hei Hauptsturmführer ana i te Paenga-whawha 1944 ko ia te rangatira o te 1st Battalion o te 45th Regiment o te 20th Waffen Grenadier Division o te SS (1st Estonian). I taua tau ano, i angitu a Maitla me tana roopu ki te aukati i te whakaeke a te ope Whero i Auvere ka whiwhi i te Iron Cross I te akomanga. I te 29 o Hurae, ko ia me tana roopu i arahi i te whakaeke i te Pakanga o Tannenberg Line
I whakawhiwhia ki a ia te Knights Cross i te 23 o Akuhata.