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#121

Post by Denis » 30 Jun 2004, 11:46

FANGIO wrote:Please, could somebody give me the names for pics Km and Km2?
And on the third pic, is Kumm receiving the Eich or RK?
Hi Fangio
Regarding the Kumm pic, I would say he is seen being awarded the OL since :
1- you seemingly can see what is looking like a RK to his neck,
2- Kumm is displayed here as a Staf. (he was awarded both RK and EL as an Ostubaf.)

Regards and many thanks to your contributions to this thread.
Denis

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Post by FANGIO » 30 Jun 2004, 13:33

Denis wrote:Hi Fangio
Regarding the Kumm pic, I would say he is seen being awarded the OL since :
1- you seemingly can see what is looking like a RK to his neck,
2- Kumm is displayed here as a Staf. (he was awarded both RK and EL as an Ostubaf.)

Regards and many thanks to your contributions to this thread.
Denis
Thanks for the info and for your words Denis, very appreciated.
Regards.

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Post by Elwyn W » 30 Jun 2004, 14:08

Denis wrote:
freiherr wrote:Hi Denis,

I have to say I completely agree with you what you have identified. But I would like to add that Mj Hajo Hermann was also listed as the 269th EL recipient that day, even though he wasn't in any of the pictures. God knows why Kirschner as an ObLt was standing where he was versus Weissenberger, at the end, the only other ObLt.
So:
Mj Helmut Lent not seen S#32
Mj Hajo Hermann not seen #269
Hptm Egmont Prinz zu Lippe Weissenfeld #263
Hptm Manfred Meurer #264
ObLt Joachim Kirschner #267
Hptm Heinrich Ehrler #265
Hptm Werner Schroer #268
ObLt Theodor Weissenberger #266

There is also another pic from the same day.

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Freiherr
Hi Freiherr,
When you say Hajo Herrmann was also listed in that day, are yoiu referring to his EL attribution number or to another information coming from an external source which includes him in that specific ceremony ?

Thanks in advance.
Denis
Sorry Denis,

Weather pretty nice here before humid summer really hits. Have been running in the morning and no time to reply!

I don't know how much credence you can give to the caption of the outdoor pic. It said 02.08.43. It was rare that the ceremony date was exactly the same as the award date for all of these EL-träger's. And if you looked up Hajo Hermann, he too was awarded the EL on this date. No idea why he was not seen.

Oberstab, I also agree with your identification regarding Lüth, Gysae, Topp, Suhren.

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Freiherr

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#124

Post by Elwyn W » 03 Jul 2004, 02:20

Hi Denis and Mark V,

You might be interested to know that the two pics posted by you were from the same ceremony!!

The missing link is, surprise, surprise at http://www.islandfarm.fsnet.co.uk/Gener ... terlin.htm

Here you see
Gen von Senger und Etterlin (EL#439)
GenMj Hans Källner (EL#392)

Then .....I would think
Obst Heinrich Voigtsberger (EL#351)
Obst Maximilian Wengler (EL#404)

Then you come back to Obst Hermann Heinrich Behrend (EL#421)

Pretty cool :P :P :P :lol:

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#125

Post by Denis » 06 Jul 2004, 07:47

Hello Freiherr
Nice and interesting finding. I would have never noticed it !
So here what we have :

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 (see at the end of the 6th page of this thread).
- 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))

The 7th officer is very difficult to identify.
Thanks again.
Denis

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#126

Post by Matt Gibbs » 06 Jul 2004, 21:36

Gentlemen;
I don't know if anyone is inerested or aware but for late war award dates the microfilm records of the Volkischer beobachter are a sure fire way of getting dates, they are often on the front page of late 44 and 45 issues. I did some work on the 45 issues and found loads of high awards from RK KVK and RKs loads were mentioed also of th oakleaves etc etc. Usually the articles also tell the award 'number' as well, for example, I have a couple of photocopies to hand.
One article is headed Das Eichenlaub, from issue of 26th [or 28th hard to read!] March 1945 It states that in Berlin on 26 March the Fuhrer bestowed the Oakleaves to the Knjights Cross to Major Herbert wittmann as 735, Oberstleutnant iG Bernd von Baer [of Fallschirm Herm.Goering.] as 761 and Oberleutnant Kurt Welter [Of the Night fighters] as 769th recipient. So, regardless of when the date of grant was made the announcement of the ceremony was carried in the party newspaper and clearly states they recieved them on 26th March 1945.
It also mentions in the previous paragraph that on 18th March 1945 the Fuhrer gave the Oakleaves with Swords to General Walter Hartmann at Fuhrer HQ as the 139th soldier of the Wehrmacht to recieve them.
I may be able to do more searching as time allows on this. I will have to check some of my other copies.
For other Hitler bestowed awards on 21st February he bestowed the Knights Cross of the War Service Cross to:
Reichsbank Director Presidents
Dr Wilhelm Schell of Münster
Julius Metzger of Köln
Heinrich Zechmann of Villach
Reichsbahn Oberinspektors:
Ludwig Kirsch RK KVK mit Schw.
Ministrerial Director Dr Fritz Schelp of Berlin the RK KVK ohne Schw.

Also on 20th February 1945 the Fuhrer bestowed the Oakleaves on SS Sturmbannfuhrer Kurt wahl of SS PzGrenDiv Gotz von Berlichingen, the 720th recipient.
Sadly there are no photos in any of the articles I just thought perhaps some of you might like to know. Apologies for covering anything that has been mentioned before!
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Post by Dieter Zinke » 08 Jul 2004, 10:45

Same procedure 20.06.1944 Obersalzberg on two pics:

All together from right

Oberfeldwebel Hans Strippel, Hauptmann Konrad Zeller, Hauptmann Theodor von Lücken, Major Bernhard Flachs, Oberst Fritz Müller, Oberst Ernst-Wilhelm Hoffmann, Generalmajor Wolf Hagemann, Generalmajor Gottfried Weber (hidden)

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#128

Post by Mark Costa » 10 Jul 2004, 05:30

Does anyone have a photo of Strachwitz or Brandi receiving their diamonds that they can post here? I have never seen one of these two men receiving this award.

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#129

Post by Denis » 12 Jul 2004, 07:34

Oberstab wrote:Same procedure 20.06.1944 Obersalzberg on two pics:

All together from right

Oberfeldwebel Hans Strippel, Hauptmann Konrad Zeller, Hauptmann Theodor von Lücken, Major Bernhard Flachs, Oberst Fritz Müller, Oberst Ernst-Wilhelm Hoffmann, Generalmajor Wolf Hagemann, Generalmajor Gottfried Weber (hidden)

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Hello Oberstab
Thanks for posting such a nice photo. There were another soldier who attended tot his ceremony.
Here is the list :

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)

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Post 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)

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Denis

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#131

Post by Dieter Zinke » 12 Jul 2004, 10:36

Dear Denis,

to support your excellent analysis


16.12.1944
the oakleaves were presented by Himmler (NOT Hitler !!!) in Trossingen(between Black Forest and Schwäbischer Alb) to:
Fritz-Rudolf Schultz (1970 - 1975 Wehrbeauftragter des Deutschen Bundestages),
Heinrich Busse (at last Oberst der Bundeswehr) and
Klaus von Bismarck (1961 - 1976 Intendant des WDR; 1977 - 1989 Präsident des Goethe-Instituts).

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Post by Mark V. » 12 Jul 2004, 10:46

Another one:

Jan-Mar 1944, location unknown
GenLt. Walter Krüger (373. EL)

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Post by Dieter Zinke » 13 Jul 2004, 00:13

Hallo forum

pic # 4:
August 1944 Rastenburg with Major Herbert Lamprecht (532. EL), Hptm. Wilhelm Batz (526. EL) and Hptm. Heinz Strüning (528. EL).
The pic is in:
"Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht. Teil VI: Die Flugabwehrtruppen", Vol. 2: L – Z, Biblio-Verlag Osnabrück, 1991

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Post by Dieter Zinke » 13 Jul 2004, 00:16

Hallo forum,

net posting

pic # 1:
Rommel and Keitel were present, when Fritz Bayerlein was awarded the oakleaves July 1943.

pic # 2:
Günther Lützow received the swords (from 11.10.1941)

pic # 3:
Obersalzberg / Berchtesgaden: 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), Wachtmeister Fritz Petersen (438. EL).. Date ca. April 1944

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Post by Denis » 13 Jul 2004, 07:38

Hello guys

Thanks for posting such nice interesting information and pictures. I will update after my vacations.
I will be on holidays from July 14 until August 9. 8)
Keep on working :wink:
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Denis

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