Knight's Cross Holders Identification

FANGIO · Post by **FANGIO** » 18 Dec 2004 20:26

Ingo wrote:Hello Fangio,

I think both are Siegfried Freyer.

Thanks a lot Ingo.
Regards,

FANGIO

Ingo · Post by **Ingo** » 19 Dec 2004 07:05

Thanks to Herbert. Does anybody know who could be on pic 1?

Elwyn W · Post by **Elwyn W** » 20 Dec 2004 14:51

Ebay said " Obst Alfons Eckert" -- and I remember some forum member posted this a while ago.

It looks like it could be ObstLt Alfons Eckhardt, who won his RK as Mj, kmdr III/InfRgt 11 (mot), 14 Div.

Eckhardt2.jpg was from Biblio Verlag.

Cheers
Freiherr

Elwyn W · Post by **Elwyn W** » 26 Dec 2004 02:08

Anyone know who they were? The general awarding the RK's and the two new recipients' superior officer?

Cheers
Freiherr

Award ceremony for two Bordfunker from I./SG 5 : Johann Hans Trummer (l) - Erich Morgenstern (r), presented by Gen. Kammhuber ; bottom left : with Offz (center) : Erwin-Peter Diekwisch / AHF id

FANGIO · Post by **FANGIO** » 29 Dec 2004 20:23

Pic posted in http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com forum by Bill Petz. The name Albert Kunz was given but I couldn't find any Albert Kunz, at least in http://www.das-ritterkreuz.de
There is a Hermann Kunz but I'm not sure if this is him.
Anybody has an idea?

Ingo · Post by **Ingo** » 29 Dec 2004 20:53

Hello Fangio,

it is Albert Kuntz.

FANGIO · Post by **FANGIO** » 29 Dec 2004 21:09

Now I could find it! Thank you very much Ingo!
Regards,

FANGIO

Ingo · Post by **Ingo** » 29 Dec 2004 21:31

I have some original photos there is one Ritterkreuzträger, but I dont know who is it. Perhaps somebody can help. I have scan some photos so you can see him from different sites.

Elwyn W · Post by **Elwyn W** » 30 Dec 2004 04:08

How about him?

Cheers
Freiherr

Elwyn W · Post by **Elwyn W** » 04 Jan 2005 04:24

macdaddy wrote:Hey guys, I was wondering who this SG77 RK pilot was? Is he Helmut Bruck maybe? Any help would be appreciated! Take care, Paul.

PP48 .... showing what was identified as Hans Joachim Brand, StKp 1/StuG 77. If so, could the person on the extreme right be Brand as well? The link between Karl Henze and Brand was that both were StKp of 1/StuG 77. Who's in the middle?

Cheers
Freiherr

Denis · Post by **Denis** » 05 Jan 2005 17:14

FANGIO wrote:I know I saw this RKT once but I can't remember his name at all, any idea?
http://forum.axishistory.com/files/mers ... nov_42.jpg
Pic: Corbis

For this message posted page 53, this could be Herbert Ewert which was awarded the RK as an Obst. and Kdr. Pz.Gre.Rgt. 104 and was POW in Afrika.
The Corbis caption is not completely trustworth IMO.
Regards
Denis

FANGIO · Post by **FANGIO** » 06 Jan 2005 19:08

Denis wrote:For this message posted page 53, this could be Herbert Ewert which was awarded the RK as an Obst. and Kdr. Pz.Gre.Rgt. 104 and was POW in Afrika.
The Corbis caption is not completely trustworth IMO.
Regards
Denis

Thank you Denis, I had forgotten that photo I posted. Is the man at his left an italian officer? This german officer is wearing a cuff-title on his right arm, what does it say? any idea?
Regards,

FANGIO

Elwyn W · Post by **Elwyn W** » 07 Jan 2005 07:08

That would lend further evidence that it was Obst Herbert Ewert. He was put in charge of HG PzGrRgt during the illness of Obst Schultz and he commanded various elements of HG under a KmpfGr Ewert and so he would be entitled to a Herman Göring cuff title -- worn on the right arm as opposed to the "Afrika" cufftitle which would have been worn on the left arm.

Cheers
Freiherr

Elwyn W · Post by **Elwyn W** » 07 Jan 2005 07:10

On PP53, the four officers were: from left to right, Hans Georg herzog, Karl Decker, Wilhelm Drewes, Gerhard Fischer.

Cheers
Freiherr

Denis · Post by **Denis** » 07 Jan 2005 07:49

Hi guys
For me the cufftitle is the Afrikakorps one (which must not be mistaken with the Afrika cufftitle)
The Afrikakorps CT is worn on the right sleeve while the Afrika CT (which is a "KAmpfabzeichen") is worn on the left sleeve.
See you soon
Denis