Marder II 1943 East front - by Bundesarchive

On 23 Febuary 1943, Meyer was the 195th man awarded Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross for his role in the recapture of Kharkov amongst many other succesfull engagements with SS-Aufkl.Abt 1. That summer Hitler declared the formation of a new SS Division, to be filled by members of the Hitlerjugend organization born in the year 1926. The commanding officers where to come from the the 1.SS-Panzerdivision "Liebstandarte Adolph Hitler". Despite his desire to lead the newly formed Panzerregiment, Meyer was chosen to command the young Grenadiers of SS-Panzergrenadierregiment 25 instead, and was promoted to SS-Standartenführer on 21 June 1943.

Source: http://www.kvhwest.com/index.php?id=kmeyer

Obersturmbannführer Kurt Meyer

Panzerbüchsentruppführer 8./SS-PzGrenRgt 1 "LSSAH"

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Schneidereit