I have shown this group in another forum and always wanted to share it here too.
Because of a missing A-membership i wasn´t able to do that.
Most of you have still seen that one and you really don´t need to reply but we have here some more new friends who are interested in our loverd 57ers and for these guys i´d like to show that. This is the first group, attributed to Wolfgang Hartelt.
I copied his story from the thread in the other forum, otherwise it´s toooooooo much work
Here we go
The whole group was splitted in 2009 and sold by Detlef Niemann and i´ll try to "rebuild" it.
It´s not that very impressive bar full of awards but this guy is IMO someone special. He awarded his RK while he fought in the 2./FschPzRgt “Hermann Göring”, what is not a common troup and he was the last RK winner who served in the Bundeswehr.
He had "only" the BWB but reading his story we can see that sometimes a BWB is really underrated.
I added the EK I, BWB from my collection and was luckily able to get a very very nice and very early PAB 25 what i show too.
Here is his biography:
Wolfgang Hartelt
Born 28.11.1924 in Breslau - died 18.01.2009 Timmendorfer Strand
RK on 23.02.1945 as Oberfähnrich in the 2./FschPzRgt “Hermann Göring”
awarded EK II - EK I (25.01.45) - BWB - PAB 25
February 1942 Reichsarbeitsdienst
February 1943 Panzerregiment 2 in Erfurt
December 1943 Southern Russia
March till Spetember 1944 weapon school Wischau in Mähren
September 1944 2./FschPzRgt “Hermann Göring”
02.Januar 1956 Bundeswehr as Ordonannz Offizier (rank Leutnant)
1958 - 1961 Kompaniechef Panzerlehrbatallion in Munster
1961 - 1963 representative batallions commander Panzerlehrbatallion Munster
1963 - 1966 Inspektions chief heeres officers school III Munich
1966 - 1971 Commander Panzerbatallion 144 Koblenz
1971 - 1975 Heeresverbindungsoffizier at US Infantry school Fort Knox/USA
1975 - 1979 representative commander Panzer Brigade 36 Bad Mergentheim
1979 - 1984 commander VBK 61 (Verteidigungsbezirkskommando 61) Augsburg
31.03.1984 left the Bundeswehr as the last RK winner who served in the Bundeswehr (rank Oberst)
Original parts from Hartelt are the ribbon bar, the RK with ribbon, the little stickpin and the shoulderboards. The other pieces are added by myself to "complete" that group for a nice and better display.
From the Führerhauptquartier:
“Berlin, 28th of march. The Führer awarded the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross to Oberfähnrich Wolfgang Hartelt, Zugführer in a Fallschirmjäger Panzerregiment.
After his Kompanie leader has been wounded, Oberfähnrich Hartelt took the leadership of the Kompanie.
He is characterized as a very brave and cold-blooded solider.
On January the 25th he was the leader of the 5 Panther tanks big rearguard of the Division.
The rearguard was attacked by 25 T34 enemy tanks and Oberfähnrich Wolfgang Hartelt attacked, basing on his own decision, the fivefold outmatched enemy.
In front of his rearguard he blast away all attacking enemy tanks. For this reason he boost the number of killed enemy tanks under his leadership up to 59 tanks. From this 59 tanks he personally killed 17.
He protected his Division from attacks of the enemy and so the Division was able to take a new
line of defense.”
Because of a missing A-membership i wasn´t able to do that.
Most of you have still seen that one and you really don´t need to reply but we have here some more new friends who are interested in our loverd 57ers and for these guys i´d like to show that. This is the first group, attributed to Wolfgang Hartelt.
I copied his story from the thread in the other forum, otherwise it´s toooooooo much work
Here we go
The whole group was splitted in 2009 and sold by Detlef Niemann and i´ll try to "rebuild" it.
It´s not that very impressive bar full of awards but this guy is IMO someone special. He awarded his RK while he fought in the 2./FschPzRgt “Hermann Göring”, what is not a common troup and he was the last RK winner who served in the Bundeswehr.
He had "only" the BWB but reading his story we can see that sometimes a BWB is really underrated.
I added the EK I, BWB from my collection and was luckily able to get a very very nice and very early PAB 25 what i show too.
Here is his biography:
Wolfgang Hartelt
Born 28.11.1924 in Breslau - died 18.01.2009 Timmendorfer Strand
RK on 23.02.1945 as Oberfähnrich in the 2./FschPzRgt “Hermann Göring”
awarded EK II - EK I (25.01.45) - BWB - PAB 25
February 1942 Reichsarbeitsdienst
February 1943 Panzerregiment 2 in Erfurt
December 1943 Southern Russia
March till Spetember 1944 weapon school Wischau in Mähren
September 1944 2./FschPzRgt “Hermann Göring”
02.Januar 1956 Bundeswehr as Ordonannz Offizier (rank Leutnant)
1958 - 1961 Kompaniechef Panzerlehrbatallion in Munster
1961 - 1963 representative batallions commander Panzerlehrbatallion Munster
1963 - 1966 Inspektions chief heeres officers school III Munich
1966 - 1971 Commander Panzerbatallion 144 Koblenz
1971 - 1975 Heeresverbindungsoffizier at US Infantry school Fort Knox/USA
1975 - 1979 representative commander Panzer Brigade 36 Bad Mergentheim
1979 - 1984 commander VBK 61 (Verteidigungsbezirkskommando 61) Augsburg
31.03.1984 left the Bundeswehr as the last RK winner who served in the Bundeswehr (rank Oberst)
Original parts from Hartelt are the ribbon bar, the RK with ribbon, the little stickpin and the shoulderboards. The other pieces are added by myself to "complete" that group for a nice and better display.
From the Führerhauptquartier:
“Berlin, 28th of march. The Führer awarded the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross to Oberfähnrich Wolfgang Hartelt, Zugführer in a Fallschirmjäger Panzerregiment.
After his Kompanie leader has been wounded, Oberfähnrich Hartelt took the leadership of the Kompanie.
He is characterized as a very brave and cold-blooded solider.
On January the 25th he was the leader of the 5 Panther tanks big rearguard of the Division.
The rearguard was attacked by 25 T34 enemy tanks and Oberfähnrich Wolfgang Hartelt attacked, basing on his own decision, the fivefold outmatched enemy.
In front of his rearguard he blast away all attacking enemy tanks. For this reason he boost the number of killed enemy tanks under his leadership up to 59 tanks. From this 59 tanks he personally killed 17.
He protected his Division from attacks of the enemy and so the Division was able to take a new
line of defense.”
Thanks for looking and interest 
and i sold a lot of very good stuff to finance it. But such a chance you get not often in your life and i am really happy that i could secure that for the future 
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