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===WWII===
As of April 1944, he had been wounded 12 times (among other things losing a finger of his left had), during April 1945, in the battle for East Prussia, he was wounded a 13th time. Wounded and seriously ill, he was evacuated from Königsberg to Schleswig on one of the last ships. In June 1945, [[POW]] Dennhardt was released from captivity directly from a military hospital in Schleswig.
===Post-WWII===
He rejoined the military service in the West German [[Bundeswehr]] on 16 December 1955. He first served in Kiel, then as of 1 January 1959 for six months with the Headquarters and Signals Company "COMLAND SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN" in Rendsburg (Eider Barracks). From 1 July 1959 to 31 July 1963, he served with the "Allied Land Forces Denmark" (LANDENMARK) in [[Copenhagen]]. The LANDENMARK, in turn, belonged to the "Allied Forces Northern Europe" (AFNORTH) land forces. From 1 August 1963 to 31 October 1965, he served as German military attaché in Ankara, [[Turkey]]. He then commanded the Panzergrenadierbrigade 16 until 31 March 1968. The 16th Panzergrenadier Brigade "Herzogtum Lauenburg" was a brigade of the 6th Panzergrenadier Division, headquartered in Wentorf near Hamburg and Elmenhorst (Lauenburg). The brigade was primarily stationed in the district of Herzogtum Lauenburg and was disbanded on 5 May 1994. From 1 April 1960 to 30 June 1971, when he retired, he was a staff officer with and deputy commander of the 6th Panzergrenadier Division in Neumünster.
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==Family==
On 4 February 1943, Captain Dennhardt was granted permission to marry his fiancée Christel Neubauer (b. 3 May 1922), daughter of Chief Inspector Max Neubauer and his wife Luise, née Hartwich. The couple married in the spring of 1943. Their only son, Arnim Horst, was born on 21 March 1944.
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File:Bruno Oskar Dennhardt as Captain (E) of the Luftwaffe.jpg|Father Bruno Oskar Dennhardt as Captain (E) of the Luftwaffe
File:Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt with his wife Christel.jpg|Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt with his wife Christel, née Neubauer
File:Ingeborg Siegrid Müller geb. Dennhardt.jpg|Sister Ingeborg Siegrid, married [[Müller]]
File:Horst Dennhardt.jpg|Dennhardt's only son, Bundeswehr officer and later businessman (BRUXBURG GmbH, Hamburg) Arnim Horst Dennhardt died only three years after his father.
** Black on 26 August 1941
** Silver on 29 August 1942
** Gold on 5 October 1942 for his 5th wound on 9 September 1942*** as of April 1945, he had been wounded 12 times, during April 1945, in the battle for East Prussia, he was wounded a 13th time.
* Infantry Assault Badge (''[https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen]'') in Bronze on 1 May 1942
* [[Winter Battle in the East 1941–42 Medal]] on 3 August 1942
