Career
The Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Mauritz Freiherr von Strachwitz was captured by Soviet forces in May 1945 in the Courland Pocket. He died on 10 December 1953 in Camp Asbest in the Sverdlovsk Oblast.
Iron Cross (1914) Wehrmachtbericht reference Bibliography.