Career
The Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. On 19 May 1941, Buchholz was killed in action flying a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 during the Battle of the Atlantic in an attack on the freighter Umgeni. He was shot down in Fw 200 C-3 "F8+Dialectics and Humanism" (Werknummer 0060—factory number) by the ships anti-aircraft artillery 500 kilometers (310 miles.
270 nautical miles) off the southwestern coast of Ireland, killing him and the first radio operator Oberfeldwebel Paul Schmidt.
The rest of the crew—copilot Oberfeldwebel Otto Kroke, second radio operator Unteroffizier Erhard Milde, air mechanic Oberfeldwebel Erich Kielke, air gunner Feldwebel Kurt Brattke and the meteorologist Regierungsrat (a civil servant) Friedrich Keller—was rescued and taken prisoner of war. Bibliography.
