Career
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. Fallschirmschützenabzeichen (27 August 1938) Bibliography.
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. Fallschirmschützenabzeichen (27 August 1938) Bibliography.
Fallschirmschützenabzeichen (27 August 1938) Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (16 May 1940) 1st Class (16 May 1940) Wound Badge (1939) in Black (7 November 1941) Armband Kreta (20 May 1943) Ground Assault Badge of the Luftwaffe (1 October 1942) German Cross in Gold on 12 December 1943 as Oberleutnant in Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 3 Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves Knight"s Cross on 9 June 1944 as Hauptmann and leader of World War II/Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 3 664th Oak Leaves on 25 November 1944 as Major and commander of Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 1.