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House Of Hohenzollern Recipients From Wehrmacht And Nazis

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The House Order of Hohenzollern (Hausorden von Hohenzollern or Hohenzollernscher Hausorden) was an order of chivalry of the House of Hohenzollern. It was both a military and a civil award. The order itself could only be awarded to commissioned officers (or civilians of approximately equivalent status), but associated with the various versions of the order were crosses and/or medals which could be awarded to non-commissioned officers and soldiers or civilians of approximately equivalent status...

The following list is only a sample of some of the more prominent recipients' names. As noted above, the Knight's Cross with Swords of the Royal House Order was the intermediate decoration between the Iron Cross 1st Class and the Pour le Mérite for Prussian junior officers. There were over 8,000 awards during World War I of this class (there were far fewer awards of the other classes, or of any class before the war). Thus, among the ranks of Imperial German Army junior officers who earned the Royal House Order as lieutenants, captains or majors in World War I are several hundred who reached the rank of general the Wehrmacht in World War II...

* Hermann Balck - Later a General der Panzertruppe and one of the most highly decorated officers in the Wehrmacht
* Ludwig Beck - Later a Colonel General in the Wehrmacht, Chief of the OKH and leader of the conspiracy against Hitler
* Werner von Blomberg - Later a Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht and War Minister of Germany; also received the Pour le Mérite
* Günther Blumentritt – Later a General der Infanterie in the Wehrmacht
* Fedor von Bock - Later a Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht; also received the Pour le Mérite
* Walter von Brauchitsch - Later a Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht and commander of the German Army
* Ernst Busch - Later a Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht; also received the Pour le Mérite
* Karl Dönitz - Later a Grand Admiral in the Kriegsmarine and briefly successor to Hitler as leader of Germany.
* Franz Ritter von Epp – Bavarian combat commander; also received the Pour le Mérite, Bavaria's Military Order of Max Joseph; later Reichsstatthalter of Bavaria (1933-45)
* Werner Freiherr von Fritsch - Later a Colonel General in the Wehrmacht and commander of the German Army
* Werner Albrecht Freiherr von und zu Gilsa was a German officer and General of Infantry, whose last assignment was as Wehrmacht commandant of Dresden. In 1936, while a lieutenant colonel, Gilsa became commandant of the Olympic Village, during the Berlin Olympic Games, summer 1936, after the demotion of Wolfgang Fürstner.
* Hermann Göring - Later Reichsmarschall; also received the Pour le Mérite, Baden's Military Karl-Friedrich Merit Order, numerous other decorations
* Robert Ritter von Greim - Later a Field Marshal in the Luftwaffe; also received the Pour le Mérite and Bavaria's Military Order of Max Joseph
* Franz Halder - Later a Colonel General in the Wehrmacht and Chief of the OKH
* Paul Hausser – Later an Oberstgruppenführer in the Waffen SS
* Gotthard Heinrici - Later a Colonel General in the Wehrmacht
* Erich Hoepner - Later a Colonel General in the Wehrmacht and leader of the conspiracy against Hitler
* Hans-Valentin Hube - Later a Colonel General and one of the most highly decorated officers in the Wehrmacht
* Ernst Jünger - Later awarded the Pour le Mérite. Author of a famous memoir of World War I, Storm of Steel. During World War II, he rejoined the Wehrmacht as a captain and served in the occupation forces in Paris.
* Wilhelm Keitel - Later a Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht and Chief of the OKW
* Günther von Kluge - Later a Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht
* Georg von Küchler - Later a Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht
* Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb - Later a Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht; also received Bavaria's Military Order of Max Joseph
* Wilhelm List - Later a Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht
* Bruno Loerzer - Later a Colonel General in the Luftwaffe; also received the Pour le Mérite
* Erich von Manstein - Later a Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht
* Walter Model - Later a Field Marshal and one of the most highly decorated officers in the Wehrmacht
* Theo Osterkamp – World War I fighter ace and Pour le Mérite recipient; also flew in World War II and rose to Generalleutnant
* Erich Raeder - Later a Grand Admiral in the Kriegsmarine
* Walter von Reichenau - Later a Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht
* Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen – Top German ace of World War I; also received the Pour le Mérite, Saxony's Military Order of St. Henry, Württemberg's Military Merit Order and numerous other decorations
* Gerd von Rundstedt - Later a Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht
* Dietrich von Saucken - Later a General der Panzertruppe and one of the most highly decorated officers in the Wehrmacht
* Hugo Sperrle - Later a Field Marshal in the Luftwaffe; also received Württemberg's Military Merit Order
* Kurt Student - Later a Colonel General and commander of German airborne troops
* Ernst Udet – Second highest scoring German ace of World War I; also received the Pour le Mérite; later a Colonel General in the Luftwaffe
* Erwin von Witzleben - Later a Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht and leader of the conspiracy against Hitler

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Re: House Of Hohenzollern Recipients From Wehrmacht

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Any addition to the list, please?


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Gauleiter Adolf Wagner, per photographic evidence...

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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 22 Jul 2009, 12:37

Gauleiter Bernhard Rust

RUST, Bernhard
(1883 - 1945)
Reichminister / SA-Obergruppenführer / Gauleiter a.D. / M.d.R.:
Born: 30.09.1883 in Hannover
Suicide: 8.05.1945 in Berne / Oldenburg (shot himself upon hearing of Germany's capitulation)
NSDAP-Nr.: 3 390 (Joined 27.02.1925)
SA Promotions:
SA-OGruf.: ; SA-Gruf.: 1936;
Assignments:
Reichsminister für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung (Reich Minister for Science, Education, and Culture): 30.04.1934 - 04.1945.
Assumed leadership of "Nationalsozialitischen Erziehungsanstalten" (National Political Education Institutes): 1.02.1934 -
Preußischen Staatsrat: 1933 -
kommissarischen preußischen Minister für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Volksbildung: Preußischen Minister für Wissenschaft, Kunst un Volksbildung: 4.02.1933 -
Landesinspekteur für Niedersachsen (Westfeln Nord und Süd, Weser-Ems, Ost-Hannover, and Süd-Hannover): 15.07.1932-
Elected to Reichstagbgeordneten für den Wahlkreis 16 (Süd-Hannover-Braunschweig): 14.09.1930.
Fraktionsführer der NSDAP-Fraktion im Hannoverschen Provinziallandtag: 11.1930 -
Gauleiter des Gaues Süd-Hannover-Braunschweig: 1.10.1928 - 11.1940. Officially names as Gauleiter, Hannover-Ost by Hitler: 27.03.1925.
Gauleiter des Gaues Hannover-Ost: 22.03.1925 - 30.09.1928.
Joined NSDAP: 27.02.1925.
Military Service & After:
Elected Bürgervorsteher in Hannover: 05.1924.
Mitglied der "Deutsch-Völkischen Freiheitspartei": 1924.
Returned to Hannover, 1919, and employed as teacher at Ratsgymnasium. Actively involved in "Völkischen Wehrbewegung Hannovers"; member of several völkisch groups.
World War I service as reserve officer; wounded several times.
Promoted Leutnant d.R.: 1912.
Studienrat, Gymasium, Hannover: 1.8.1909 - 31.03.1930. Einjährig-Freiwilliger (One-year volunteer) in Infanterieregiment 74: 04.1908 - 03.1909.
Notes:
Together with his wife and their daughter, traveled to the headquarters of Großadmiral/Chancellor Dönitz's new government in Mürwik, Apr. 1945.
Decorations & Awards:
Ritterkreuz mit Schwertern des Hohenzollernschen Hausordens (WW I)
1914 EK I
1914 EK II
Verwundetenabzeichen, 1918 in Schwarz
Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
Goldenes Parteiabzeichen
Dienstauszeichnungen der NSDAP

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