small DKiG Group

[Dete]

Hello,
i would like to show you this group which i recently bought at a german auction house. I get the group at a very decent price which makes me always a bit suspicious. I would appreciate all comments especially in regards of the originality of the DK. There are although some more papers like the divisions order etc.
thx
Detlev

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DK, 70,95g

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[Giel VW]

I can see no problems with any of the awards, a great German cross grouping of a man who for sure did not missed out the combat fields!

[Simon O.]

Without a doubt, the Ehrenblattspange document is by far the jewel of this group, very rare indeed!

[Robert T.]

Detlev,

You don’t say if your brave soldier was killed in action, but there is only one Horst Magnussen listed on the Volksbund site, and he is also Hauptmann.

All the documents shown are dated prior to his death: (28.09.1944).

Grenadier-Regiment 552 ( 329. Infanterie-Division) were fighting in the vicinity of his burial site at the time and got trapped in the Kurland Pocket until the end of the war…

A very interesting group, but this is all purely hypothetical.

Regards,

Robert
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Name: Magnussen, Horst
Date of birth: Unknown
Nationality: German


KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD
Rank: Oberleutnant d.R.
Unit: Grenadier-Regiment 552
Awarded on: April 9th, 1943

Information source(s): - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht

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http://www.volksbund.de/graebersuche...D7F36A1C066EE0


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Nachname: Magnussen
Vorname: Horst Asmus
Dienstgrad: Hauptmann
Geburtsdatum: 01.05.1912
Geburtsort: Dörphof
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 28.09.1944
Todes-/Vermisstenort: Armee Feldl. 2 Lw.

Horst Asmus Magnussen ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Cernjachovsk (Rußland) .
Endgrablage: auf diesem Friedhof

Insterburg / Cernjachovsk

Am Stadtrand von Insterburg entstand innerhalb des ehemaligen Zivilfriedhofes, auf dem aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg 556 Deutsche,5 Rumänen und 165 Russen ruhen, ein Sammelfriedhof für alle noch aufzufindenden deutschen Gefallenen im östlichen Teil des ehemaligen Ostpreußens.

Der Friedhof hatte ursprünglich eine Größe von ca. 17.000 Quadratmetern. Wegen der großen Zahl zu erwartender Zubettungen wurde die Anlage auf 27.000 Quadratmeter Fläche erweitert. In der Zeit von 1942 bis 1948 wurden hier 1.830 Gefallene bestattet. Der Volksbund bettete bisher 6.265 Gefallene ein.

Zum zehnjährigen Bestehen der Kriegsgräberstätte fand am 01. Juli 2006 eine Gedenkveranstaltung auf dem Friedhof statt.

[Hank C.]

Great group, docs & medals and whatnot! Hope you were the lucky winner of the auction.
best
Hank

[Dete]

thx for all the comments and especially for the additional informations from Robert. Indeed thats the one, he was killed in action in 1944. When i bought this group it was mixed up with another small group of a "Aufklärer". There were a lot of papers in which i found out that the widow of Magnussen married again after his death and this is the second group.
regards
Detlev