Knight's Cross Holders Identification

[John Toner]

001JPG is Theo Weissenberger

John

[Elwyn W]

Fangio, that's Karl Allmendinger

Cheers
Freiherr

[FANGIO]

Thanks a lot Freiherr! very appreciated.
Best,

FANGIO

[Josef Bremm]

Thank you John!

Best regards/ josef

[bake]

I.D. please

[Mark V.]

Hi bake,

Heinrici and Köster.

[VJK]

Hi Mark!

I think you mean Henrici.

Regards,

VJK

[Mark V.]

Of course . Thanks for the correction.

Here's another pic of Köster.

[bake]

Thank's Mark V.

Very fast reply

[Phil Nix]

A pic labeled Jagdgruppe 50 in Wiesbaden from Martin Middlebrook's book on the Schweinfurt/Regensburg Raid. Who is the RK holder
Phil Nix

[Elwyn W]

Source: Detlev Niemann.

This was for sale, Oberst RKT on 06.04.1945, DKiG, Silver wound badge.

There were no award of Heer RK on 06.04.45. And the "6"s on the shoulder boards are a bit of a puzzle to me. However, the signature looks like GenLt "Reichert". A guess would be Obst Enno Erich v Limburg-Hetlingen, Kmdr, GrRgt 731, RK 03.05.45, DKiG.

Enno-Erich von Limburg-Hetlingen , unofficial RKT / AHF id

Cheers
Freiherr

[Bernd R]

think, you are absolutely right, Freiherr !

quotation of my 711. ID list from "awardholders/unit" thread

711. Infanterie – Division
(formed may 1941 ; occupation duty at the Channel Coast/15. Armee ; action : Normandie, june/july 1944 ;
refitted sept-dec 1944 in the Netherlands ; since dec 1944 : Ungary)

total : 4 KC / including 1 unofficial

Stab :

1. Reichert, Josef 09.12.1944 Generalleutnant Kdr 711. Inf.Div

Grenadier – Regiment 731 :

2. Ließmann, Helmut 03.11.1944 Hauptmann d.R. Führer III./Gren.Rgt 731
3. Limburg-Hetlingen von, Enno-Erich 03.05.1945 Oberst Kdr Gren.Rgt 731

Grenadier – Regiment 744 :

4. Post, Eduard 28.02.1945 Hauptmann d.R. Kdr III./Gren.Rgt 744

and very interesting, this case and now this Ritterkreuz entry !!

in short : Veit Scherzer is referring of absolutely no hints on a KC proposal nor a confirmation of an award.

concerning the "6" : according Scherzer (page 130, end of text, additional info) von Limburg-Hetlingen in 1939 was Bataillons-Kommandeur im IR 6 !

so, as Kdr Gren.Rgt 731, was he wearing the "6" of his old Rgt in memory ?
possible, though don't think so.

as a fromer collector of shoulder boards, I can tell you, you can find "mixed" shoulder boards, resp. devices/numbers on the market, some of them you will recognize the numbers are added at a later date and doesn't fit with the board. Sometimes it is impossible to say, if this board was originally worn like it looks today.

So, to me it is imaginable that there were Oberst shoulder boards available and a pair of "6" and the family or someone else did put them together (?)

Bernd

[harmel]

Nice find Elwyn,thanks to Bernd as well
Harmel

[FMModel]

Bernd,

Is it also possible that the Oberst kept the old number 6 and boards as a momento, then purchased/obtained another set for his new assignment?

Mark

[Bernd R]

You are right, Mark, possible
might be an over interpretation I was going through ; reason is my impression that one "6" is darker ("Grünspan") than the other ; therefore the conclusion that they could be different ones.
And - he must have been Oberst while assigned to (then) Grenadier-Regiment 6 (?)

Alex, you know ? Someone has the assignments of von Limburg-Hetlingen ?

The issue of the KC award itself it the other challenge here :roll:

Bernd