Knight's Cross Holders Identification

bake · Post by **bake** » 21 Oct 2004 01:46

Thanks Daniel.

hec801 · Post by **hec801** » 21 Oct 2004 08:55

Hey Daniel,

thanks for the post but I think this is not Meinhold! Other face and I think this KC holder here wears no DKiG!

It would be nice if anyone could control these two KC holders of 50. ID because I have no pic of them:

Hübner, Ernst-August - Oberleutnant, Chef 12./122 - 9.12.43
Richter, Hans - Hauptmann, Führer I./121 - 29.1.44

Daniel, another possibility is that the unknown KC holder was member of 98. ID! Baerenfaenger had some units of that division under his commando...

Maybe someone has an idea!?

Regards

Hannes

Elwyn W · Post by **Elwyn W** » 22 Oct 2004 13:16

Hi Hannes,

Here's Hans Richter. Not him. Do you have a picture of Meinhold to share?

Johannes Richter, Pz.Gren.Rgt. 304 / AHF id

Cheers
Freiherr

Ingo · Post by **Ingo** » 22 Oct 2004 13:28

Hello freiherr,

your picture shoes not Hans Richter. It is Johannes Richter, KC 39.09.1944 as Leutnant and leader 2. / Pz.Gren.Rgt. 304

VJK · Post by **VJK** » 22 Oct 2004 16:26

Hi!

This pic was labelled on e-bay as being Otto Wöhler. Having just had my eyes tested recently, I can't use that as as excuse for not being able to reconcile the pic with Wöhler. :D

Can anyone please offer an alternative identification?

Regards,

VJK

FANGIO · Post by **FANGIO** » 23 Oct 2004 06:18

Any idea regarding the photo I posted above (Mers-el-Kebir)???
Here's another one from Webshots:

Elwyn W · Post by **Elwyn W** » 24 Oct 2004 22:13

UB_5.jpeg posted by Daniel on PP51 was taken on the same day as the following. It's the same house and RK on Betzels neck. There seemed to be no RKT in the entire pic except for the panzermann on the extreme right and even then it was tricky -- identified by Biblio Verlag as ObFwb Karl Ketterer who won his RK while serving 15PzRgt/11 Pz> Does anyone know if he was transfered to 4 Pz?

Cheers
Freiherr

Elwyn W · Post by **Elwyn W** » 24 Oct 2004 23:40

Who were they: the NCO from ebay, the Major from Detlev Niemann.

Cheers
Freiherr

VJK · Post by **VJK** » 29 Oct 2004 18:46

Hi!

The face seems familiar, but I just can't place him. Can anyone please put me out of my misery and identify this RKT and DKiG Generalleutnant.

Many thanks in advance,

VJK

Mark V. · Post by **Mark V.** » 30 Oct 2004 17:25

From a recent Ebay auction - captioned as Panzer + RK Träger / Südf.

Vienna · Post by **Vienna** » 30 Oct 2004 19:58

Hi VJK!

Pic shows Kurt RÖPKE, 29.11.96-21.7.66, General der Infanterie.

Greeting

Vienna

VJK · Post by **VJK** » 30 Oct 2004 20:20

Hi Vienna!

Thank you so very much - I knew that I knew him but I got too much involved in the pic being of a Generalleutnant and forgot to check the Generale.

Best regards,

VJK

FANGIO · Post by **FANGIO** » 30 Oct 2004 21:15

Who's this RKT (source: vincon-militaria)
The pics are within a group of photos showing Alfred Wünnenberg. Maybe this RKT is from 4.SS Polizei?

award ceremony with Wünnenberg : Otto Giesecke (l) and Karl Schümers (r) / AHF id

John Toner · Post by **John Toner** » 31 Oct 2004 08:39

I am told that one of these RKTs is the later EL winner Gerhard Friedrich, but I don't know which. Can anyone say who the four are?

Thanks
John

AHF id
5. Panzer-Division Officers after the fightings at KOWEL in 1944 , possibly in preparation to the Oakleaves award ceremony for Major Wilhelm Drewes on 20 April 1944
from left to right :
1 - Major d.R. Hans-Georg Herzog - RK 06.04.1944 Major d.R. Kdr. II./Pz.Gren.Rgt. 14
[DKiG : 30.07.1942]
2 - Generalmajor Karl Decker - RK 13.06.1941 OTL Kdr. I./Pz.Rgt. 3 , EL [466.] 04.05.1944 Genmaj Kdr. 5.Pz.Div.
3 - Major Wilhelm Drewes - RK 27.10.1943 Hauptmann Fhr. I./Pz.Gren.Rgt. 13
[EL [458.] : 20.04.1944 Major Kdr. I./Pz.Gren.Rgt. 13
4 - Major (OTL 1.6.44) Gerhard Friedrich - RK 06.04.1943 Hauptmann Kdr. I./Pz.Gren.Rgt. 13
[EL [642.] : 03.11.1944 OTL Kdr. Pz.Gren.Rgt. 13 ; DKiG : 10.01.1944]

Hardigan · Post by **Hardigan** » 31 Oct 2004 12:47

Hello Fangio

The KC-recipients are Otto Giesecke and Karl Schümers of Polizei-div

Best

Hardigan