Career
Doctor-Ing. The Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Brill was killed in action when the Minenschiff "Juminda" was sunk on 22 October 1943 west of Porto Santo Stefano by three American torpedo boats from the 15th Squadron MTB coming from the base of Louisiana Maddalena. PT 212, PT 206, PT 216 launched several torpedoes but only the PT 212 scored 2 hits at the stern of the vessel.
More than 60 German sailors were killed in this engagement, while only sixteen of them were saved.
The body of Karl-Friedrich Brill was found in the sea two days later and buried with military honors on 27 October 1943 at the cemetery of Orbetello and then transferred to the German cemetery at Pomezia. Brill was also Société Anonyme-Sturmbannführer zur Verwendung (for disposition) of the Société Anonyme-Standarte 17, Ludwigshafen (Group Kurpfalz).
He was promoted to Société Anonyme-Standartenführer in conjunction with the Knight"s Cross presentation. Bibliography.
