Women awarded the Iron Cross

[ClareMulley]

Can any one confirm when, and for what, nurse Johanna Krüger received her Iron Cross II during WWI please? Thank you!

[ClareMulley]

Also - who was the woman dressed as a male soldier who was reputedly awarded the EK around 1813?

[peeved]

Also - who was the woman dressed as a male soldier who was reputedly awarded the EK around 1813?

At least Friederike Krüger according to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friederike_Kr%C3%BCger Was also promoted to NCO.

Markus

[ClareMulley]

Thank you very much indeed Markus, that is really helpful. I think the WWI nurse was Lonny Hertha von Versen: http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-first- ... 61705.html
Thank you again. Clare

[Helge]

Anna Großherzogin von Carius. 18 June 1901 - 17 January 1945

Anna Großherzogin von Carius was killed during an Allied bombing raid on Cherbourg on 17 January 1945.

[Heimatschuss]

Hello Helge,

could you please check the seriousness of your source (https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the ... k/id=65841) again? The photo clearly shows IC recipient Hanny Weber and has been taken from here http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 98#p999498.

There's no kind of nobility title resembling 'Grand Duke of Carius' anywhere in Germany or Austria and I very much doubt you'll find it somewhere on the rest of this planet.

And why on Earth should the Allies have bombed Cherbourg in January 1945? They'd conquered the town in June 1944. It was one of their supply harbours in continental Europe since then.

Best regards
Torsten

[Vikki]

I've split a post by jared53402 concerning female awards of the Kriegsverdienstkreuz (War Merit Cross) to a new thread at http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 4#p2022024.

~Vikki

[Helge]

Weltkrieg, Auszeichnung von Schwestern des DRK mit dem Eisernen Kreuz 2. Klasse, v.l. DRK - Generaloberin Luise von Oertzen, Schwestern Elfriede Wnuk, Marga Droste, der geschäftsführende Präsident des DRK Ernst-Robert Grawitz in Berlin.

[hucks216]

Hello,

here's a close-up of Ilse Schulz. The photo was taken during a speech Goebbels held at Heidelberg University on July 9th, 1943. According to the photo caption Schulz was a student at Heidelberg by then.

Ilse Schulz.jpgSource:
http://www.beeldbankwo2.nl
Picture No.: 3027

The award document for her is shown at http://forum.balsi.de/index.php?topic=5 ... 6#msg51766. The thread also contains a lot of other useful material (in German) on female IC recipients.


Best regards
Torsten

The citations and photo album for Ilse Schulz are for sale at eMedals (not cheap by any means though). Interestingly, the unit designation and date on the EK citation differ from that previously shown.

https://www.emedals.com/europe/germany/ ... lse-schulz

[j keenan]

I would personally say the eMedals item is a put together by someone other than Ilse Schulz, seen quite a few so called docs and medals for sale on that site which are complete junk.

[Stephan]

And why on Earth should the Allies have bombed Cherbourg in January 1945? They'd conquered the town in June 1944. It was one of their supply harbours in continental Europe since then.

Best regards
Torsten

That said, there were a couple of occupied french ports, whom were left behind belegeured, and taken in may(?!) 1945. The french army were allowed to do some brilliancies... I suspect some of them even capitulated at the overall capitualation...
So, someone dying in a big french port because of allied bombings, is fully possible.

[demiane]

Hello
Does anyone know about women whose were ordered Iron Cross in 1870/1871? Probably there were three women. One of them was Auguste Fritsch. Did anyone hear about her?
Best regards

[Helge]

Hanny Weber

[tigre]

Hello to all ; one in colour..............

Flugkapitän Hanna Reitsch!

She was decorated with the EK II (March 28, 1941) and the EK I (November 5, 1942).

Source: https://histclo.com/essay/war/ww2/bio/r ... itsch.html

Cheers. Raúl M .

[tigre]

Hello to all ; a complement..............................

Women who received the Iron Cross 2nd Class - DRK (German Red Cross) nurse Greta Grafenkamp!

Iron Cross 2nd Class (EK II) on February 17, 1945

The decoration was awarded to her for her valiant work on the Breslau Fortress.

Sources: http://www.guntherprienmilitaria.com.mx ... guerra.php
https://forum.balsi.de/index.php?topic=5833.15

Cheers. Raúl M .