Knight Crosses today

[Sepp45]

Finally, the entire grouping.

[Tom B]

Bohlken's prelim. doc. ?

Do you know who now owns the Prelim. Doc. for Erwin Bohlken's RK ? I owned it many years ago and was just wondering. Thanks, Tom

[rove]

Dont saw it - so my question
where is the rk of Josef Allerberger?

[InfanterieSammler]

Do you know who now owns the Prelim. Doc. for Erwin Bohlken's RK ? I owned it many years ago and was just wondering. Thanks, Tom

Hey Tom!

I would query Mike Davis. I had owned the Darius, Bonk, and Weiß KC Prelims shown here and all were purchased from Mike. If memory serves, he was consigning the Bohlken one as well.

Interesting to see a couple more of my former groups (Donnhauser and Strippel). I mentioned this before, there were no medals when I owned the Strippel group - not sure if they were separated before or added after?

JD

[Sepp45]

Hey Tom!

I would query Mike Davis. I had owned the Darius, Bonk, and Weiß KC Prelims shown here and all were purchased from Mike. If memory serves, he was consigning the Bohlken one as well.

Interesting to see a couple more of my former groups (Donnhauser and Strippel). I mentioned this before, there were no medals when I owned the Strippel group - not sure if they were separated before or added after?

JD

Thanks John for that great info.

[Sepp45]

Dont saw it - so my question
where is the rk of Josef Allerberger?

Hi Rove; Allerberger's RK was being sold (last time I checked) by Detlev Niemann, but.. it wasn't the one "awarded" to the famous sniper. In fact, there's some doubt regarding the RK ceremony ever took place in 1945.

Regards,
Sepp.

[Sepp45]

RK formal award document to Major Hans Henning Eichert
Chef 6. / Schützen-Regiment 11 / 9.Panzer-Division
Presented on: March 14th, 1942

[Sepp45]

Eichert's document, front and cover.

[Sepp45]

I have to make an honest correction in this thread, regarding the last photos of the documents and groupings of Major Hans Henning Eichert, Feldwebel Otto Rüger, Major Rolf-Günther Hermichen, Feldwebel Georg Weiss and Feldwebel Erwin Bohlken . Those come from the militaria selling website VirtualGranadier. I took the liberty to remove the watermarks, but the credit go to them.

Regards,
Sepp.

[Gran Sasso]

Hi Rove; Allerberger's RK was being sold (last time I checked) by Detlev Niemann, but.. it wasn't the one "awarded" to the famous sniper. In fact, there's some doubt regarding the RK ceremony ever took place in 1945.

Regards,
Sepp.

Correct: A friend of mine was a good friend of Sepp (Josef) Allerberger. Sepp told him he just received a letter on the front, informing him he will be awarded the KC, but never received it before the war ended. After the war Sepp bought himself one, he received the document by fieldpost-letter to his home adress in the final days of war.
Also he bought himself a replacement, it was not displayed in his cabinet at home, only his EKI, wound badge and snipers badge.
His rifle he donated to an austrian museum, but thanks to left wings politics that musuem had to be closed down, and everything dissapeared...

[Sepp45]

Correct: A friend of mine was a good friend of Sepp (Josef) Allerberger. Sepp told him he just received a letter on the front, informing him he will be awarded the KC, but never received it before the war ended. After the war Sepp bought himself one, he received the document by fieldpost-letter to his home adress in the final days of war.
Also he bought himself a replacement, it was not displayed in his cabinet at home, only his EKI, wound badge and snipers badge.
His rifle he donated to an austrian museum, but thanks to left wings politics that musuem had to be closed down, and everything dissapeared...

Thanks Gran S.; it would be great to see some photos of the documents.

[Sepp45]

RK with OL preliminary award documents to Hauptmann Hans Schalanda
Flugzeugführer 8. / Sturzkampfgeschwader 1
Presented on: April 3rd, 1943

Staffelkapitän Schlachtgeschwader 1
Presented on: October 24th, 1944

Sorry for the bad quality, since it was an old sale from A-Thies.

[Sepp45]

RK formal award document to Generalleutnant Alfred Ritter von Hubicki
Kommandeur 9.Panzer-Division
Presented on: April 20th, 1941

[Sepp45]

RK preliminary award document to Oberleutnant Werner Franken
Flugzeugführer I. / Kampfgeschwader 26
Presented on: March 24th, 1943

[Sepp45]

RK formal award document awarded to Feldwebel Karl Huber
Stoßtruppführer AufKlAbt 20 (mot.)
Presented on: July 30th, 1940.

This excellent document belongs to WAF member Allan P. Photo credits to him.

Thanks for sharing it with the rest of us