#130
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by Denis » 12 Jul 2004, 07:45
Hello friends,
Some new data have been included. Thanks again to all people who take time to find new information about this matter.
Please note that if the date is unknown, I have inserted the latest bestowal date for all the present recipients. I have sorted the data by date. New elements are clearly identified by a caption in bold.
29/06/41
(location and position of the 3 officers are not known)
KM ceremony
- Kaleu. Engelbert Endrass (14. EL)
- Kaleu. Henrich Liebe (13. EL)
- Kaleu. Herbert Schultze (15. EL)
After 14/07/41, location unknown (is seemingly very close of the previous ceremony)
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Obstlt. Oskar Dinort (21. EL)
- Major Walter Storp (22. EL)
NEW NEW NEW !!
25/07/41, FHQ
LW ceremony :
(position of the 4 officers is not clearly established)
- Obstlt. Adolf Galland (1. Schw. !!)
- Hptm. Walter Oesau (9. EL)
- Hptm. Herbert Ihlefeld (16. EL)
- Oblt. Siegfried Schnell (18. EL)
NEW NEW NEW !!
After 01/09/41, location unknown
WH ceremony :
- Gen.Lt. Ludwig Crüwell (34. EL)
07/09/41, FHQ
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Hptm. Hans "Assi" Hahn (32. EL)
- Kaleu. Oblt. Hans Philipp (33. EL)
- Oblt. Heirich Bär (31. EL)
After 31/12/41, location unknown
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Gen.Major Walther von Seydlitz-Kurbach (54. EL)
- Obst. Franz Scheidies (43. EL)
- Oblt. Ernst-Georg Buchterkirch (44. EL)
After 31/12/41, location unknown
KM ceremony
From left to right :
- Kap. zS Bernhard Rogge (45. EL)
- Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (51. EL)
- Oblt. zS Reinhard Suhren (56. EL)
07/02/42, location unknown
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Obst. Hans Jordan (59. EL)
- Obst. Karl Eibl (50. EL)
- Major Günther Hoffmann-Schönborn (49. EL)
- Rittm. Georg Freiherr von Boeselager (53. EL)
- Oblt. Karl-Heinz Noak (63. EL)
After 12/03/42, location unknown
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Hans Philipp (8. Schwertern)
- Kurt Ubben (80. EL)
- Oblt. Max-Hellmuth Ostermann (81. EL)
March of 1942, FHQ
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Gen.Major Hermann Breith (69. EL)
- Gen.Major Werner-Albrecht Freiherr von und zu Gilsa (68. EL)
- Obst. Heinrich Eberbach (42. EL)
- Obst. Karl Wilhelm Specht (60. EL)
- Obstlt. Otto Hitzfeld (65. EL)
NEW NEW NEW !!
Between 23/04/42 and 17/08/42
KM ceremony
From left to Right :
- Kaleu. Erich Topp (87. EL)
- Kaleu. Reinhard Hardegen (89. EL)
After 23/04/42, location unknown
From left to right :
- Hptm. Herbert Ihlefeld (9. Schw.)
- Oblt. Wolf-Dietrich Huy (83. EL)
- Oblt. Wolfgang Späte (90. EL)
After 23/04/42, location unknown
WH-WSS ceremony
From left to right :
- Obst. Wilhelm wegener (66. EL)
- SS-Brig. u. Gen.Major d. Polizei Alfred Wünnenberg (91. EL)
- Gen.Major Wilibald Frhr. v. Langermann u. Erlencamp (75. EL)
After 09/08/42, location unknown
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Hptm. Anton Hackl (109. EL)
- Ofw. Franz-Josef Beerenbock (108. EL)
2nd semester, 1942
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- undientified LW officer (should be a Schwerternträger)
- Oblt. Max-Hellmuth Ostermann (10. Schw.)
- Hptm. Helmut Lent (98. EL)
- Oblt. Heinrich Setz (102. EL)
- Oblt. Friedrich Geisshardt (101. EL)
23/09/42, FHQ
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Oblt. Werner Ziegler (121. EL)
- Lt. d.R. Gerhard Hein (120. EL)
26/09/42
- Rommel receives his Schwertern grosse urkunde
After 03/10/42, location unknown
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Oblt. Friedrich-Karl Müller (126. EL)
- Oblt. Wolfgang Tonne (128. EL)
- Lt. Hans Beisswenger (130. EL)
- Fw. Wilhelm Crinius (127. EL)
After 11/10/42, location unknown
WH-LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Obstlt. Walter Sigel (116. EL)
- Hptm. Johannes Kümmel (133. EL)
After 30/10/42, location unknown
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Hptm. Johannes Steinhoff (115. EL)
- Oblt. Günther Rall (134. EL)
- Fw. Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert (131. EL)
- Ofw. Max Stotz (137. EL)
After 13/11/42, location unknown
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Hptm. Heinrich Schweickhardt (138. EL)
- Gen.Major Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke (145. EL)
After 21/11/42, location unknown
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Hptm. Wolfgang Schenck (139. EL)
- Hptm. Friedrich Lang (148. EL)
- Lt. Josef Zwernemann (141. EL)
After 28/11/42, location unknown
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Oblt. Alwin Boerst (149. EL)
- Lt. Josef Wurmheller (146. EL)
After 23/12/42, FHQ, Vinnitsa
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Oblt. Ekkehard Kylling Schmidt (150. EL)
- Hptm. Harald von Hirschfeld (164. EL)
After 08/01/43, location unknown
KM ceremony
From left to right :
- Kaleu. Friedrich Guggenberger (171. EL)
- Kaleu. Wolfgang Lüth (142. EL)
- Korv.Kapt. Karl-Friedrich Merten (147. EL)
- Kaleu. Werner Töniges (143. EL)
After 08/01/43, location unknown
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Hptm. Bruno Dilley (174. EL)
- Major Ernst Kupfer (173. EL)
After 25/01/43, FHQ, Vinnitsa
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Oblt. d.R. Georg Michael (187. EL)
- Hptm. d.R. Konrad Hupfer (136. EL)
After 08/02/43, Wolfsschanze
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Hptm. Erwin Fischer (191. EL)
- Hptm. Hermann Hogeback (192. EL)
NEW NEW NEW !!
25/02/43, location unknown
- SS-Ostubaf. Kurt Meyer (195. EL)
31/03/43, location unknown
WSS ceremony
- SS-Ogruf. Josef Dietrich (26. Schw.)
After 16/04/1943, Reichskanzlei - Berlin
WH-LW-WSS ceremony
From left to right :
- Hptm. Walter Scheunemann (202. EL)
- Oblt. Werner Baumgarten-Crusius (199. EL)
- Ofw. Rudolf Schlee (222. EL)
- Uffz. d.R. Georg Rietscher (210. EL)
- Obstlt. Paul Werner Hozzel (230. EL)
- Major Werner Streib (197. EL)
- Oblt. Theodor Nordmann (214. EL)
- Oblt. Hans Ulrich Rudel (229. EL)
- Hptm. Egon Mayer (232. EL)
- Hptm. Georg Dörffel (231. EL)
- SS-Staf. Hinrich Schuldt (220. EL)
it is possible that other recipients (especially Heer members) also attended to this ceremony but the angle of the photo can't allow to see more people.
After 10/05/43, location unknown
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Oblt. d.R. Fritz Fessmann (170. EL)
- Hptm. Hans-Günther Stotten (236. EL)
- Major Erich Klawe (227.EL)
After 17/05/43, location unknown
WH-WSS ceremony
From left to right :
- Gen.Lt. Hans-Karl von Scheele (217. EL)
- unidentified
- Obst. Karl Löwrick (247. EL)
- Obst. Franz Griesbach (242. EL)
- Hptm. Waldemar von Gazen (182. EL)
- Hptm. Erich Bärenfänger (243. EL)
- SS-Stubaf. August Dieckmann (233. EL)
- Oblt. d.R. Wilhelm Niggemeyer (241. EL)
- Ofw. Ernst Kruse (245. EL)
UPDATED UPDATED UPDATED !!
Between July 1, 1943 and August 9, 1943, location unknown
KM ceremony
From left to right :
- Korv.Kapt. Wolfgang Lüth (29. Schw)
- Korv.Kapt. Robert Gysae (250. EL)
- Korv.Kapt. Erich Topp (11. Schw.)
- Korv.Kapt. Reinhard Suhren (18. Schw.)
After 04/07/43, location unknown
KM ceremony
From left to right :
- Freg.Kapt. Gerhard von Kamptz (225. EL)
- Kaleu. Siegfried Wuppermann (226. EL)
- Kaleu. Otto von Bülow (234. EL)
- Kaleu. Georg Lassen (208. EL)
- Kaleu. Werner Henke (257. EL)
UPDATED UPDATED UPDATED !!
After 02/08/43, location unknown
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Major Helmut Lent (not seen) (32. Schw.)
- Major Hajo Hermann (not seen) (269. EL)
- Hptm. Egmont Prinz zu Lippe Weissenfeld (263. EL)
- Hptm. Manfred Meurer (264. EL)
- Oblt. Joachim Kirschner (267. EL)
- Hptm. Heinrich Ehrler (265. EL)
- Hptm Werner Schroer (268. EL)
- Oblt. Theodor Weissenberger (266. EL)
28/08/43, FHQ
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Gen. d. Inf. Hans von Obstfelder (251. EL)
- Gen. d. Inf. Paul Laux (237. EL)
- Gen.Lt. Gustav Hoene (238. EL)
- Major Bruno Kahl (270. EL)
- Major Karl Langesee (211. EL)
After 07/09/43, location unknown
WSS ceremony
From left to right :
- SS-Staf. Heinz Harmel (296. EL)
- SS-Ostubaf. Otto Baum (277. EL)
After 13/09/43, location unknown
WH ceremony
from left to right :
- Obst. Paul Schultz (284. EL)
- Obst. dR. Walter Lange (300. EL)
- Major Theodor Tolsdorff (302. EL)
- Obst. Günther Pape (301. EL)
- Major d.R. Franz Bäke (262. EL)
After 22/09/43, location unknown
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Hptm. Hartmann Grasser (288. EL)
- Hptm. Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (290. EL)
- Hptm. Günther Rall (34. Schw.)
- Oblt. Walter Nowotny (37. Schw.)
15/10/43
- Wolfgang Lüth receives his Brillanten grosse urkunde
After 03/10/43, location unknown
WH ceremony
- Gen.Lt. Emilio Esteban-Infantes receives his RK as Kdr. 250. ID (span.)
After 03/10/43, location unknown
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Oblt. Bodo Spranz (2182. RK + 308. EL)
- Gen. d. Pz.Tr. Joachim Lemelsen (294. EL)
After 25/10/43, FHQ
WH ceremony
From left to Right :
- Gen.Lt. Julius Ringel (312. EL)
- Gen.Lt. Horst Grossmann (292. EL)
Late October 1943, location unknown
WSS ceremony
- SS-Gruf. Walter Krüger (286. EL)
- SS-Ostubaf. Sylvester Stadler (303. EL)
After 24/11/43, location unknown
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Obst. Dr.Med.Dent. Karl Mauss (335. EL)
- Major Bernhard Sauvant (260. EL)
- Hptm. Ernst Ziemer (317. EL)
After 25/11/43, location unknown
LW ceremony
from left ot right :
- Major Dietrich Hrabak (337. EL)
- Hptm. Hans-Ulrich Rudel (42. Schw.)
- Ofw. Erwin Hentschel (RK)
December 1943, location unknown
KM ceremony
From left to right :
- Korv.Kapt. Friedrich Kemnade (249. EL)
- Kaleu. Carl Emmermann (256. EL)
After 09/12/43, location unknwon
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Gen. d. Pz.Truppen Sigfrid Henrici (350. EL)
- Obst. Eugen König ?? (318. EL)
- Obst. Heinrich Voigtsberger (351. EL)
- Major d.R. Adolf Weitkunat (346. EL)
- Hptm. Willy Johannmeyer (329. EL)
After 10/12/43, Wolfschanze
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Gen.Major Hasso von Manteuffel (332. EL)
- Obstlt. Ernst Wellmann (342. EL)
- Obstlt. Willi Langkeit (348. EL)
- Obstlt. Karl Baacke (352. EL)
09/01/44, location unknown
WH ceremony
- Obst. Adalbert Schulz (9. Brill.)
20/01/44, Wolfsschanze
14 LW officers receive their Schwertern grosse urkunden (sorted by alphabetical order)
- Heinrich Bär
- Werner Baumbach
- Alfred Druschel
- Adolf Galland
- Gordon Gollob
- Hermann Graf
- Joachim Helbig
- Herbert Ihlefeld
- Helmut Lent
- Günther Lützow
- Walter Nowotny
- Walter Oesau
- Dietrich Peltz
- Wolf-Dieter Wilcke
30/01/44, Wolfschanze, Rastenburg
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Obstlt. Albert Graf v.d. Goltz (316. EL)
- Obstlt. Karl Koetz (374. EL)
- Major Josef-Georg Mulzer (367. EL)
- Rittm. Andreas Thorey (349. EL)
- Fw. d.R. Heinrich Boigk (370. EL) wearing a patch on one of his eye
02/02/44, Rastenburg
WSS ceremony
- SS-Ustuf. Michäel Wittmann (380. EL)
13/02/44, Rastenburg
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Gen. d. Inf. Kurt von der Chevallerie (357. EL)
- Gen.Lt. Hans Gollnick (282. EL)
- Gen. d. Inf. Friedrich Wiese (372. EL)
- Gen.Lt. Hans Schlemmer (369. EL)
13/02/44, Rastenburg ??
WH ceremony
- Major Erich Bärenfänger (45. Schw.)
18/02/44, Rastenburg ??
WH-WSS ceremony
From left to right :
- SS-Hpstuf. Léon Degrelle (2474. RK)
- SS-Gruf. Herbert Otto Gille (47. Schw.)
- Gen.Lt. Theobald Lieb (400. EL)
March, 1944, Rastenburg
WSS ceremony
- SS-Ostubaf. Albert Frey (359. EL)
After 26/03/44, Berghof
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Major Kurt Bühligen (413. EL)
- Hptm. Hans-Joachim Jabs (430. EL)
- Major Bernhard Jope (431. EL)
- Major Hansgeorg Bätcher (434. EL)
- Major Johannes Wiese (418. EL)
- Major Dr.jur. Maximilian Otte (433. EL)
- Major Reinhard Seiler (419. EL)
- Hptm. Horst Ademeit (414. EL)
- Oblt. Walter Krupinski (415. EL)
- Lt. Erich Hartmann (420. EL)
- Wm. Fritz Petersen (438. EL)
After 13/04/44, location unknown
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Gen. d. Geb.Tr. Hans Kreysing (63. Schw.)
- Gen.Lt. Johannes Mayer (453. EL)
UPDATED UPDATED UPDATED !!
April, May, 1944, location unknown
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- unidentified WH general receiving the Schwertern
- Gen. d. Pz.Tr. Hermann Breith (48. Schw.)
- Obslt. d.R. Franz Bäke (49. Schw.)
- Gen. d. Pz.Tr. Walther K. Nehring (383. EL)
- Gen. d. Pz.Tr. Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (439. EL)
- Gen.Major Hans Källner (392. EL)
- unidentified Heer officer (Gen.Major or Oberst) receiving the Eichenlaub : Kossmala, Mummert, Hohn, LorenzKarl or Bronsart von Schellendorf. It can't be Heinrich Voigtsberger since this one is already listed in the "After 09/12/1943" ceremony.
- Obst. Hermann-Heinrich Behrend (421. EL)
- Obstlt. Josef Bregenzer (427. EL)
- Obstlt. Meinrad von Lauchert (396. EL)
- Major Otto Benzin (406. EL)
- Hptm. Helmut Kalbitz (366. EL)
- Hptm. Josef Rettemeier (425. EL)
- Fw. Walter Möse (390. EL) (might also be Uffz. d.R. Josef Karl (397. EL))
05/05/44, Obersalzberg
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- unidentified (LW)
- unidentified (LW)
- unidentified (LW)
- unidentified (LW)
- unidentified (LW)
- Major Wilhelm Herget (451. EL)
- Major Martin Möbus (463. EL)
- Major Erich Rudorffer (447. EL)
- Hptm. Alfred Grislawski (446. EL)
- Hptm. d.R. Emil Lang (448. EL)
- Lt. Günther Schack (460. EL)
- Lt. Otto Kittel (449. EL)
- Lt. Anton Hafner (452. EL)
After 14/05/44, location unknown :
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Gen.Obst. Heinrich von Vietinghoff (456. EL) ??
- Friessner or Hitter or von Neindorff ??
- unidentified
- Obst. d.R. Maximilian Wengler (404. EL) or Gen.Major Rudolf Frhr. von Waldenfels (476. EL)
- Obstlt. d.R. Erich Lorenz (467. EL)
- Obstlt. Wilhelm Eggemann (468. EL)
- Obstlt. Kilian Weimer (478. EL)
- Obstlt. Max Sachsenheimer (472. EL)
- Major Wilhelm Drewes (458. EL)
- Hptm. d.R. Walter Elflein (347. EL) A source gives Hptm. d.R. Walter Mix (405. EL) instead of Elflein
- Ofw. d.R. Martin Hrustak (473. EL)
14/05/44, location unknwon
WH ceremony
- Gen.Lt. Hasso von Manteuffel (50. Schw.)
25/05/44, Obersalzberg
WH ceremony
as far as I can see on the photo, at least 9 Heer officers (several generals). This photo is displayed on "on the Field of Honor" (volume 2 - see entry for von Brese) . From left to right :
- Gen.Lt. Dietrich von Saucken (46. Schw.) (previously as unidentified)
- Gen.Lt. Georg-Wilhelm Postel (57. Schw.)(previously as unidentified)
- Obst. Franz Griesbach (53. Schw.)
- Gen. d. Art. Maximilian Fretter-Pico (368. EL) (previously idientifed as Postel)
- Gen.Lt. Friedrich Schulz (428. EL)
- Obst. Ernst-Günther Baade (402. EL)
- Obst. Herbert Schwender (442. EL)
- Major Heinz von Brese-Winiary (441. EL)
- Hptm. d.R. Heinrich Hogrebe (454. EL)
20/06/44, Obersalzberg
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Gen. d. Art. Ernst-Eberhard Hell (487. EL)
- Gen.Lt. Ludwig Müller (440. EL)
- Gen.Lt. Friedrich Hochbaum (486. EL)
- Gen.Major Gottfried Weber (490. EL)
- Gen.Major Wolf Hagemann (484. EL)
- Obstlt. Ernst Wilhelm Hoffmann (494. EL)
- Obstlt. Fritz Müller (477. EL)
- Hptm. Bernhard Flachs (381. EL)
- Hptm. Theodor von Lücken (469. EL)
- Hptm. d.R. Konrad Zeller (495. EL)
- Ofw. Hans Strippel (485. EL)
After 24/06/44, location unknown
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- unidentified (to be confirmed) : there is seemingly a sleeve which can be seen near Hartmann's one : see luft_EL_1.jpg
in the related thread posted by Freiherr)
- Lt. Erich Hartmann (420. EL) : might it be possible that Hartmann was there to be awarded the Schwerter ? This would be the only possiblity coming to my mind to explain why he is before Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer. If so, the date would be included between 02/07/44 (Hartmann's Schwertern) and 30/07/44 (Schnaufer's ones).
- Hptm. Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (507. EL)
- Major Horst Kaubisch (505. EL)
- Hptm. Eduard Skrzipek (509. EL)
- Lt. Adolf Glunz (508. EL)
25/06/44, Obersalzberg
WSS ceremony
- SS-Ostuf. Michäel Wittmann (71. Schwertern)
After 11/07/44, location unknown
WH-KM ceremony
from left to right :
- Gen. d. Inf. Erich Buschenhagen (521. EL)
- Gen.Lt. Ernst Sieler (502. EL)
- Obst. d.R. Werner Kolb (514. EL)
- Major Hermann Wulf (520. EL)
- Major Clemens-Heinrich Graf von Kageneck (513. EL)
- Major Joachim Domaschk (496. EL)
- Major Heinz-Otto Fabian (522. EL)
- Korv.Kapt. Karl Palmgren (523. EL)
- Hptm. Willi Thulke (424. EL)
After 25/07/44, location unknown
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- Major Herbert Lamprecht (532. EL)
- Hptm. Wilhelm Batz (526. EL)
- Hptm. Heinz Strüning (528. EL)
Note that the photo doesn't allow to see if more soldiers attended to this specific ceremony
After 19/08/44, location unknown
WH ceremony
from left to right :
- Obst. Hinrich Warrelmann (555. EL)
- Obstlt. Gerhard Pick (553. EL)
28/08/44, FHQ
WSS ceremony
From left to right :
- SS-Ogruf. Felix Steiner (86. Schw.)
- SS-Stubaf. Léon Degrelle (EL + NKSiG)
19/09/44, FHQ
WH ceremony
from left to right :
- Obst. Rudolf Holste (561. EL)
- Major Walter Misera (569. EL)
NEW NEW NEW !!
After 18/03/45, Führerbunker, Berlin
WH ceremony
- Gen.Major Theodor Tolsdorff (25. Brill.)
NEW NEW NEW !!
26 (or 28)/03/45
LW-WH ceremony
- Obstlt. i.G. Bernd von Baer (761. EL)
- Major Herbert Wittmann (735. EL)
- Oblt. Kurt Welter (769. EL)
The following ones comes from single photos wher only one soldier is seen receiving the award. Due to lack of information and until a new larger photo can be found, we can only suppose that the following soldiers received their respective award without any fellow counterparts. They are sorted by alphabetical order.
- Gen.Major Fritz Bayerlein (258. EL)
- SS-Stubaf. Georg Bochmann (246. EL)
- Gen. d. Inf. Walter Graf v. Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt (103. EL)
- SS-Ogruf. Theodor Eicke (88. EL)
- SS-Ogruf. Paul Hausser (261. EL)
- SS-Ostuf. Bruno Hinz (559. EL)
- Obstlt. Ludwig Kirschner (135. EL)
- SS-Staf. Otto Kumm (221. EL)
- Obst. Hartwig v. Ludwiger (163. EL)
- Obst. Kurt-Jürgen Frhr. v. Lützow (37. EL)
- Oblt. Hans-Joachim Marseille (97. EL)
- SS-Hpstuf. Erwin Meiedress (310. EL)
- Gen.Obst. Walter Model (74. EL)
- SS-Stubaf. Joachim Peiper (377. EL)
- Major Otto-ernst Remer (325. EL)
- Gen.Major Theodor Scherer (92. EL)
- Gen. d. Geb.Tr. Ferdinand Schörner (398. EL)
- Obstlt. Adalbert Schulz (33. Schw.)
- Obst. Rainer Stahel (169. EL)
- Obst. Helmuth Thumm (166. EL)
- SS-Stubaf. Christian Tychsen (353. EL)
- SS-Ostubaf. Karl Ullrich (480. EL)
Best regards
Denis