Fallschirmjäger RKTs - pics and career data

[Fallschirmjäger]

Like that picture(24 Jan 2008 00:32),its realy great,like these must be from older threads i still not have seen maybe or missed?.And 2 dont have there smocks,so msut be on there backs rolled up maybe you would think.like not having one would seem strange,or not issued,lost etc...

[Peter H]

Has anyone a photo of Georg Grünewald(1911-1944) RK 29/10/44 Oberfeldwebel,Fallschirm-SturmgeschützBrigade 12.Killed in action August 1944,Normandy?


Any photo of Leutnant Werner Stehle would also be appreciated.



Other RKTs of Fallschirm-SturmgeschützBrigade12 were:

Hauptmann Richard Hengstler (1918-1979)RK 28/4/45 (unofficial)

Leutnant Werner Stehle(1923-1993) RK 28/4/45

[Peter H]

This was on ebay a while back.Sorry I can't remember seller.

Note unidentified RKT on left.Said to be in Russia.

[Peter H]

Another addition found by Bernd--Fritz Quednow

Quednow, Fritz 05.04.1944 Hauptmann Chef 5./Jäg.Rgt „HG“

remark : Jäger – Regiment „HG“ was formed from Stab, I. and III. / Fsch.Jäg.Rgt 5 in february 1943
(one might say redesignated and renamed) ; before it was called Fallschirmjäger-Regiment “HG” / Kampfgruppe Schmid
quoted here in a official promotion document for Quednow :
http://www.das-ritterkreuz.de/.....ession=424
Quednow KIA 27.04.1943 near Tunis ; Pz.Rgt should be a typo, wasn’t in North Africa (?)

[Peter H]

Bruno Bräuer and Erich Walther on Crete.

From wehrmacht-awards.com

[Peter H]

The only FJ holder of the Gold Tank Destruction Badge?

Oberleutnant Raimund Eckel,commander 14/FJR4 at Cassino.Eckel personally knocked out 3 Shermans with a Panzerschreck,his company destroying 11 tanks in total by Panzerschreck and Tellermines,on the 19th March 1944.The opposing force were New Zealanders of the 20th Brigade supported by a US tank company.

Photo by Oscar G,wehrmacht-awards.com

[Fallschirmjäger]

Nice pictures again Peter,that one of the FJ walking seems strange there not wearing there smocks,so just out marching near there base or to somewhere in warmer weather.I have seen FJ like this without smocks,they(not they did not do so i mean too,like seen pictures elswhere not wearing them,like officers etc..) where in the fighting they did in poland in 1939.

[Peter H]

Photo from Chris M

Hauptmann Richard Hengstler

[Peter]

Walter Gericke from Bundesarchiv/Wikipedia

[Peter]

Reinhard Egger from Bundesarchiv/Wikipedia

[Peter]

Eric Hellmann from Bundesarchiv/Wikipedia

[Fallschirmjäger]

Thanks for the pictures Peter,could you remind me,how many kights crosses where won in the monte cassino battles bu the FJ?.

[Peter H]

I think this could be Kurt Stephani.

[Peter H]

But definitely Mertens

[Peter H]

Hellmut Görtz

From: viewtopic.php?p=1220510#p1220510

Poster,Someone from Kharkov