Career
The Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Hans-Walter Heyne was captured by Soviet troops in June 1944 during the Bobruysk Offensive and was released in October 1955. He was son of Doctor.jur Adolf Friedrich Eduard Heyne-Hedersleben, owner of the Radaxdorf Estate, next to Leuthen, and Wally Marie von Willich.
(Second marriage Freya Sophie Georgine von Linsingen).
Hans-Walther spent his retirement on the family estate Wasserschloß Bodenengern, where he is also buried. Iron Cross (1914) Bibliography.