RK still alive winners list!!

Spirow Ewes · Post by **Spirow Ewes** » 19 Sep 2006 19:06

Where can I find an updated list of Ritterkreuz winners that are still alive? I really need it.

The thing is: next month there´s going to take place in Germany two reunions: one of the Luftwaffe pilots and other of Knight´s Cross winners. A friend of mine is going but he doesn´t know the veterans that will be there, and I´m going to send some photos with him to be autographed.

That´s why I want to know who´s still alive and goes to this kind of reunion, so I can send the appropriate photos.

any help will be most welcome!

Thanks in advance,

Josef Bremm · Post by **Josef Bremm** » 19 Sep 2006 22:06

Heer
Schwerter
1 Major im Generalstab. Waldemar von Gazen genannt von Gaza. 06.12.1917
Eichenlaub
1 Oberstleutnant der Reserve. Gerhard Hein. 09.07.1916
2 Oberstleutnant der Reserve. Eberhard Zahn. 02.01.1910
3 Oberleutnant der Reserve. Wilhelm Niggemeyer. 09.05.1918
4 Hauptmann. Bodo Spranz. 01.01.1920
5 Oberstleutnant. Josef-Georg Mulzer. 23.04.1915
6 Oberfeldwebel. Johann Schwerdfeger. 24.11.1914
7 Oberleutnant der Reserve. Otto Carius. 27.05.1922
8 Hauptmann der Reserve. Gerhard Simons. 05.02.1921
9 Oberst. Gerhard Friedrich. 17.10.1909
10 Major. Wilhelm Weidenbrück. 05.02.1915
11 Major. Aloisius Eisele. 22.02.1914
12 Oberstleutnant. Herbert Kündiger. 03.05.1910
13 Oberst. Werner Ebeling. 21.11.1913
14 Major. Wolfgang Rust. 15.09.1919
15 Oberst. Kuno von Meyer. 27.12.1913
16 Oberfeldwebel. Helmuth Borchardt. 01.08.1917
17 Oberfeldwebel. Albert Kerscher. 29.03.1916
18 Major. Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt. 30.06.1915
19 Major. Hans Meier. 23.02.1918
20 Hauptmann der Reserve. Georg Störck. 01.04.1917
21 Major. Heinrich Ruhl. 31.08.1915
Waffen-SS
Eichenlaub
1 SS-Hauptsturmführer der Reserve. Walter Girg. 13-08-1919
Luftwaffe
Schwerter
1 Major. Günther Rall. 10-03-1918
2 Oberst. Hajo Herrmann. 01-08-1913
3 Major. Erich Rudorffer. 01-11-1917
4 Hauptmann. Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert. 02-02-1919
Eichenlaub
1 Oberst. Adolf Dickfeld. 20.02.1910
2 Oberstleutnant. Wolfgang Schenck. 07.02.1913
3 Oberstleutnant. Hans-Karl Stepp. 02.09.1914
4 Generalleutnant. Heinrich Trettner. 19.09.1907
5 Major. Paul Zorner. 31.03.1920
6 Oberleutnant. Walter Schuck. 30.07.1920
7 Major. Franz Kieslich. 12.03.1913
8 Major. Kurt Dahlmann. 04.03.1918
9 Major. Herbert Wittmann. 03.01.1914
10 Major. Rolf Hermichen. 25.07.1918
11 Hauptmann. Heinz Rökker. 10.10.1920
12 Oberleutnant. Gerhard Thyben. 24.02.1922
13 Major. Martin Drewes. 20.10.1918
14 Hauptmann. Hermann Greiner. 02.01.1920
15 Hauptmann. Erhard Jähnert. 17.08.1917
Kriegsmarine
Eichenlaub
1 Korvettenkapitän. Reinhard Hardegen. 18.03.1913
2 Korvettenkapitän. Georg Lassen. 12.05.1915
3 Korvettenkapitän. Friedrich Kemnade. 12.12.1911
4 Korvettenkapitän . Klaus Feldt. 14.04.1912
5 Kapitänleutnant . Hans-Günther Lange. 28.09.1916

Josef Bremm · Post by **Josef Bremm** » 19 Sep 2006 22:38

Kriegsmarine
Ritterkreuz
1 Korvettenkapitän. Jürgen Oesten. 24.10.1913
2 Korvettenkapitän. Hellmut Rohweder. 17.01.1914
3 Kapitänleutnant. Horst Weber. 08.08.1919
4 Kapitänleutnant. Gustav Poel. 02.08.1917
5 Kapitänleutnant. Alfred Eick. 09.03.1916
6 Kapitänleutnant. Karl-Heinz Wiebe. 20.04.1916
7 Kapitänleutnant. Paul Brasack. 09.05.1916
8 Oberleutnant zur See. Erich Wulff. 17.05.1914
9 Oberleutnant (M.A.) der Reserve. Rudi Gelbhaar. 24.01.1915
10 Oberleutnant zur See der Reserve. Hans-Georg Hess. 06.05.1923
11 Oberleutnant zur See. Otto Westphalen. 12.03.1920
12 Oberleutnant (M.A.) der Reserve. Hans Witt. 24.11.1904
13 Oberleutnant zur See der Reserve. Wolfgang Feller. 09.07.1915
14 Leutnant zur See der Reserve. Walther Gerhold. 08.06.1921

Josef Bremm · Post by **Josef Bremm** » 20 Sep 2006 00:11

Waffen-SS
Ritterkreuz
1 Sturmbannführer. Erich Grätz. 14.08.1909
2 Hauptsturmführer. Wilhelm Engelbrecht. 05.09.1911
3 Sturmbannführer. Bruno Walden. 14.12.1911
4 Obersturmbannführer. Fritz Darges. 08.02.1913
5 Obersturmführer. Fritz Langanke. 15.07.1919
6 Hauptsturmführer der Reserve.Willy Grieme. 04.10.1914
7 Sturmbannführer. Heinrich Springer. 03.11.1914
8 Sturmbannführer. Günter Wanhöfer. 18.11.1916
9 Obersturmführer. Paul Egger. 26.11.1916
10 Hauptsturmführer der Reserve. Heinrich Sonne. 23.02.1917
11 Hauptsturmführer. Karl Nicolussi-Leck. 14.03.1917
12 Sturmbannführer . Helmuth Schreiber. 25.03.1917
13 Hauptsturmführer. Heinz Jürgens. 23.03.1917
14 Obersturmbannführer. Siegfried Brosow. 10.12.1918
15 Hauptsturmführer. Karl-Heinz Euling. 16.08.1919
16 Oberscharführer. Ernst Barkmann. 25.08.1919
17 Untersturmführer. Friedrich Blond. 29.04.1920
18 Hauptscharführer. Walter Pitsch. 13.07.1920
19 Untersturmführer. Karl Brommann. 20.07.1920
20 Untersturmführer. Oskar Schäfer. 16.01.1921
21 Oberscharführer. Alois Schnaubelt. 16.01.1921
22 Obersturmführer. Soeren Kam. 02.11.1921
23 Obersturmführer der Reserve. Erwin Bachmann. 05.05.1921
24 Hauptsturmführer. Rudolf von Ribbentrop. 11.05.1921
25 Untersturmführer. Hans Sigmund. 11.08.1921
26 Oberscharführer. Friedrich Buck. 30.01.1922
27 Obersturmführer. Kurt Sametreiter. 09.04.1922
28 Hauptsturmführer. Joachim Boosfeld. 01.06.1922
29 Oberscharführer. Gerhard Fischer. 12.11.1922
30 Sturmmann. Günther Lange. ?
31 Unterscharführer. Rudolf Grünner. 18.10.1923
32 Unterscharführer. Josef Röllecke. 23.08.1924
33 Untersturmführer. Karl-Heinz Gieseler. 30.07.1925
34 Sturmbannführer. Eberhard Heder. 30.06.1918
35 Oberscharführer. Harald Nugiseks. 22.10.1921
36 Oberscharführer. Gebhard. ?

Ingo · Post by **Ingo** » 20 Sep 2006 07:54

Hello,

some in your list are no more still alive.

- Gerhard Friedrich
- Herbert Kündinger
- Helmuth Borchardt (+ 1945)
- Heinrich Trettner (passed away few days ago)
- Gerhard Thyben (04.09.2006)
- Erhard Jähnert (23.07.2006)
- Rudi Gelbhaar (24.11.2002)
- Heinrich Witt (not Hans Witt)
- Bruno Walden (1946)
- Willy Grieme (31.07.2005)
- Hans Sigmund (15.07.1993)

Josef Bremm · Post by **Josef Bremm** » 10 Oct 2006 08:59

Gerhard Thyben + 04.09.2006

Douglas Jr. · Post by **Douglas Jr.** » 10 Oct 2006 14:17

It is a sad note that Gerhard Thyben has passed away. Great fighter ace!

To Spirrow Ewes: if you intend to get signed pictures, personally I think that e-bay is a good source for postwar autographs.

Douglas.

Spirow Ewes · Post by **Spirow Ewes** » 10 Oct 2006 17:07

What about Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert? I've heard that he passed about two years ago...

Bigshot · Post by **Bigshot** » 10 Oct 2006 18:17

Georg Bose is still alive, I have contact with him.

Douglas Jr. · Post by **Douglas Jr.** » 10 Oct 2006 19:08

Spirow Ewes wrote:What about Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert? I've heard that he passed about two years ago...

Reinert is alive as far as I know although in poor health.
Trettner has died few weeks ago. See: http://www.das-ritterkreuz.de/index_sea ... wert1=6609

Douglas.

Josef Bremm · Post by **Josef Bremm** » 11 Oct 2006 13:43

Bigshot · Post by **Bigshot** » 11 Oct 2006 20:01

Josef Bremm wrote:01.

You subject is "Georg Bose", but I don't know the reason and the sense of your post. Can you explain your post?

Thanks in advance,

Ep.

Josef Bremm · Post by **Josef Bremm** » 13 Oct 2006 06:54

01.pic.

Bigshot · Post by **Bigshot** » 13 Oct 2006 20:53

Thanks!!!

Bjørn from Norway · Post by **Bjørn from Norway** » 14 Oct 2006 17:38

Hello!
Maj Ruef, from III/Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 143 (6 Gebirgsdivision) got the RK in 1944, and he is still alive.

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