Career
The Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Ulrich Kessler was captured on 15 May 1945 while on board U-234 by a 15-man boarding party from the destroyer United States Ship Sutton. He was returning to active duty as Chief of the Luftwaffe-Liaison-Staff Tokyo and Air-Attache at the German Embassy in Tokyo.
Iron Cross (1914) Bibliography.