Awards (OL, Sw. & Diam.) personally bestowed by Hitler

[harmel]

Hi all
have checked photo 33256 and have come up with this: This photo shows Wessel in General uniform in Feb 1942, in which he on the 17/2/1942 promoted to GM, also of interest on his left looks like Hans Eberbach, who won this award on 31/12/1941, but never recieved it till Feb 1942
Regards Harmel

[harmel]

Hi Bake,
the photo from http://WWW.bsb-Muenchen.de is the Future Gauleiter Karl Hanke, who at the the time was a volunteer in the Heer, and actually served with Rommel
in North Africa
Harmel

[Denis]

Hello Denis.

If you look closer,

After 11/08/44, location unknown
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- unidentified general ( nose)
- unidentified general
- unidentified general
- Obst. Wilhelm Bleckwenn or Dr.Ing. Rudolf Flinzer ( 575 EL) ??????
- Obst. Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (536. EL)
- Hptm. Hubert Mickley (540. EL)

And Strahammer is on the ceremony bestowed by Himmler.

Regards

Hi bake
I completely agree with you on the fact that there is a third person to add to this ceremony (the first on the row with just the nose seen).
However, as I said yesterday, the 4th officer cannot be Wilhelm Bleckwenn. This officer wears above his IRon Cross 1st class the spange which means he has already received the EK1 during WWI. Bleckween being born in 1906, this prevents him from being a "Great War" veteran. Beisdes (and like Strahammer), I have noticed that Bleckwenn is also listed in the Himmler ceremony. So maybe this is Flinzer but from my side, I would need to have more picutes of him to besure.
Regards
Denis

[Denis]

Hello Denis.

If you look closer,

After 11/08/44, location unknown
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- unidentified general ( nose)
- unidentified general
- unidentified general
- Obst. Wilhelm Bleckwenn or Dr.Ing. Rudolf Flinzer ( 575 EL) ??????
- Obst. Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (536. EL)
- Hptm. Hubert Mickley (540. EL)

And Strahammer is on the ceremony bestowed by Himmler.

Regards

Hi bake
I completely agree with you on the fact that there is a third person to add to this ceremony (the first on the row with just the nose seen).
However, as I said yesterday, the 4th officer cannot be Wilhelm Bleckwenn. This officer wears above his IRon Cross 1st class the spange which means he has already received the EK1 during WWI. Bleckween being born in 1906, this prevents him from being a "Great War" veteran. Beisdes (and like Strahammer), I have noticed that Bleckwenn is also listed in the Himmler ceremony. So maybe this is Flinzer but from my side, I would need to have more picutes of him to besure.
Regards
Denis

Me again
What do you think about Bacherer among the possble ones ?
Regards
Denis

[bake]

Hello Denis

Yes that's a possibility about Bacherer.
Look your E-Mail

***UPDATE***UPDATE**

-10/11 Aug. 1943. FHQ, Wolfsschanze
LW ceremony
From left to right :
- unidentified (maybe Major Hajo Hermann (269. EL)) ** saw pic of him with Lent at Wolfsschanze in aug.*
- Major Helmut Lent (32. Schw.)
- 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)

Best Regards

[Elwyn W]

Hello Bake and Denis,

Hair style lloks like Flinzer's but his award date was in September 44, whereas Mickley's and Oppeln-Bronikowski's were on 04.08.44 and 28.07.44.


Two possibilities: Bacherer and Wesche. Both had spange zum EK1.

Cheers
Freiherr

[FANGIO]

Hello Fangio,

Yes this picture was already posted

Sorry for that bake! Don't worry, I'll keep on searching.
Best,

FANGIO

[bake]

Hello Freiherr,

We have to remove Willi Wesche (541 EL), because he received this awards posthumly.
Flinzer was awards the EL at the 05/09/44, I don't thing that's a problem.



Regards

[bake]

***NEW***NEW***NEW***

Source: Peter Hinchliffe, The Lent Papers, Helmut Lent.

- Hauptmann Rudolf Sigmund RK bestowed personally by Hitler in Sept 43.

[bake]

Some pictures found.

Source: http://www.hero-faksimiles.de

Rall and Nowotny Schwerter

[bake]

Second.


Schneidereit RK by Hitler

[mjölnir]

I found a new ceremony, but before WW II!
07.06.1939 Reichskanzlei, Marmorgalerie
WH-KM-LW-Ceremony
Audience for the Legion Condor-members

And another pic
20.04.1945 Führerbunker, Berlin
Schörner gratulated Hitler to his birthday by shaking hands

Source: Dietmar Arnold "Neue Reichskanzlei und 'Führerbunker'" (page 105 and 129)
mjölnir

[bake]

*****NEW*****

Source: http://www.bsb-muenchen.de


- Feb 1942, Location: Rastenburg.
LW Ceremony
Feldwebel Gerhard Köppen ( 79 EL).

Picture from outside

[bake]

Hello Denis,


****NEW****

-After 13/01/43. Location: Rastenburg.
KM Ceremony.
KapitänLt Johann Mohr ( 177 EL)

Source: Hitler's U-Boat war: The Hunted 1942-1945.

* since I have no picture of this ceremony, I don't know if He was alone .

Regards

[Dieter Zinke]

Another question.

Pic of :

March of 1942, FHQ, Wolfsschanze
WH ceremony
From left to right :
- Gen.Major Hermann Breith (69. EL)
- Gen.Major Werner-Albrecht Freiherr von und zu Gilsa (68. EL) ?????????????? or Wessel
- Obst. Heinrich Eberbach (42. EL)
- Obst. Karl Wilhelm Specht (60. EL)
- Obstlt. Otto Hitzfeld (65. EL)

The comment on the photo said the general in the middle is
Walter Weszel or Wessel.
Did someone able to ID This general?
Is he Wessel or Gilsa?

See the following picture ("RK-Träger der Panzertruppe I", Biblio-Verlag). There the general is "unbekannt".
I think it is Gilsa.

Dieter Z.