Knight Crosses today

[Blitzbundeln]

The KC looks like a dipping ring???

[Leroy]

"Souval/Sedlatzek". (Modern ribbon.)

[frankandfrank]

Any Bärenfänger documents?

[tony james]

The other set owned by Liebe, in mint condition.

(Photo credits to Paul-Patrick Schröder)

I wonder if there is evidence / documentation to prove that liebe had this cross during the war ?

[chrisje110]

Thats a Sedlatzek KC right ? Wonder if there is some proof, that would be very interesting !

[Sepp45]

Maybe Liebe bought the second set after the war? I don't know... the museum said both crosses belonged to him and were donated by the family.

[Sepp45]

RK preliminary award document to Major Franz Piehler
Kommandeur I. / Jäger-Regiment 25 (L)
Presented on: October 6th, 1944

[rfleming32]

That is unusual, wearing a transport clasp.

[Sepp45]

That is unusual, wearing a transport clasp.

Yes, he served in the Luftwaffe before being transferred to an Army unit.

[Sepp45]

RK preliminary award document to Oberst Gerhard Giesen
Kommandeur GrenRgt 123
Presented on: March 11th, 1945

Giesen was awarded the KC posthumously.

[Sepp45]

RK formal award document to Oberst Torsten Christ
Chef des Generalstabes, VIII.Fliegerkorps, Luftwaffe
Presented on: October 21st, 1942

(Photo credits to Weitze.net)

[Sepp45]

The full document

(Photo credits to Weitze.net)

[Sepp45]

The funeral pillow of Hauptmann Gerhard Tschierschwitz, who got the KC on December 6th, 1944 (Chef 2. / Fallschirm-Panzer-Regiment Hermann Göring).

It seems the Knight's Cross is backwards.. but we don't know if it's his wartime piece or not...

Tschierschwitz died in 1997.

[Sepp45]

A photo of Tschierschwitz after getting the Ritterkreuz.

[Sepp45]

RK preliminary award document to Feldwebel Karl-Heinz Drees
Richtschütze 14.(Panzerjäger) / Grenadier-Regiment 552 / 329.Infanterie-Division
Presented on: February 8th, 1944

(Photo credits of the document to Olaf Biel)