Knights Cross Recipients Who Are Still Living

[Huntzman]

This is the reality........... time waits for no man, not even the great ones.

I was completely unprepared for the email from Martin informing me that Siegfried had passed. Especially considering the letter on my desk that I had just gotten from him.

Siegfried was a good man, a kind friend, and he will be greatly missed.

EHRE SEINEM ANDENKEN. GOTT GEBE IHM DIE LETZTE RUHE

[Nidhøggr]

Hello everyone,

Very bad news i'm afraid

Obersturmbannführer
Brosow, Siegfried
* 10.12.1918 Steinfelde/Ostpreußen
+ 18.11.2008 Oberkotzau
Ritterkreuz am: 13.11.1943
als: Hauptsturmführer
Funktion: Chef 1./SS-PzPiBtl "Das Reich"
Bes. Vermerke: Laut Krätschmer RK in 1./SS-PzPiBtl 2 "Das Reich".


RIP Siegfried and thanks for the great memories of the occasions we met at the OdR,

Seine Ehre hiess Treue

Paul

last week i received a letter from siegfried.
he wrote the next odr meeting will be close to me and we`ll see us there again.
and now, one week later he´s gone.
good bye my friend!

[Tommy Tasker]

last week i received a letter from siegfried.
he wrote the next odr meeting will be close to me and we`ll see us there again.
and now, one week later he´s gone.
good bye my friend!

2 GREAT MEN Herrn Brosow and Herrn Mitschke, our thoughts shoud be with their familys at this time.

does any one know if their are Ritterkreuztraeger like Siegfried who spent 10
years as a Russian POW STILL ALIVE OR WAS HE THE LAST?

RIP.Siegfried Brosow and Martin Mitschke.

[SiMä]

Thats really sad to hear that Mr. Brosow has passed away...

Siegbert

P.S.: Got today a letter from Mr. Barkmann.

[SiMä]

Hi guys!
Does anybody knows if one of the following KCH is still alive (They all served in the Waffen SS)?

Kurt Fröhlich
Gerhard Fischer
Wilhelm Engelbert
Karl - Heinz Geisler
Rudolf Grünner
Heinz Jürgens
Herbert Kuhlmann
Günther Lange
Karlis Sensbergs
Hans Siegmund
Gustav Wendrinsky

Thank You guys very much in advance!
Regards,
Siegbert


P.S.: Georg Bleher is still alive.

[ardennes1944]

Hi

Kurt Fröhlich passed away 1991
Gerhard Fischer
Wilhelm Engelbert ENGELBRECHT
Karl - Heinz Geisler no RKH
Rudolf Grünner
Heinz Jürgens passed away 7.Juli 2008
Herbert Kuhlmann passed away
Günther Lange
Karlis Sensbergs passed away 1945
Hans Siegmund
Gustav Wendrinsky passed away February 1945.

Phil.

[Huntzman]

Just did a list update to add the new names and remove those who have passed away.

Andrew

[Nidhøggr]

Hello!
Last friday i visited Otto Carius again.
He´s in a good health and still working in his pharmacy.

[mdj]

Sad news...

KC + OL holder Alois Eisele has passed away on 4th december....

Ehre seinem Andenken.

Martin

[Huntzman]

Martin

Thanks for the information on Alois. Very sad news on his passing.

EHRE SEINEM ANDENKEN. GOTT GEBE IHM DIE LETZTE RUHE

Andrew

[ardennes1944]

Hi Martin

Very bad new

Auf Widersehen Herr Eisele

Phil.

[SiMä]

Hello guys,
Phil, thank you for your answer! Thats really sad to hear with Mr. Eisele... If I'm right, he was one of the last living KCH that was awarded with the Nahkampfspange in Gold?
Regrads,
Siegbert

P.S.: I wrote him a letter in the first week of november, do you think that maybe he answer it and now the letter is on the way to me?

[Paul E]

Kolczyk, Heinz
* 20.11.1912 Breitenbach, Krs. Sangerhausen
+10.11.2008
Ritterkreuz am: 06.04.1944
als: Rittmeister
Funktion: Kommandeur PzAufklAbt 7

Heinz also served at Stalingrad with 24 Panzer Division.

[Ian Jewison]

Kolczyk, Heinz
* 20.11.1912 Breitenbach, Krs. Sangerhausen
+10.11.2008
Ritterkreuz am: 06.04.1944
als: Rittmeister
Funktion: Kommandeur PzAufklAbt 7

Heinz also served at Stalingrad with 24 Panzer Division.

That is sad news, we had corresponded for some years about his service with Radfahr Abteilung 1 and a good friend of his, also a RKT.

R.I.P. Herr Kolczyk.

/Ian

[Paul E]

Unteroffizier
Rahlenbeck, Robert
* 12.04.1923 Arnsberg / Westfalen
+ 02.12.2008 Emsdetten (durch Unfall)
Ritterkreuz am: 23.08.1943
als: Gefreiter
Funktion: Richtschütze 16./JägRgt 38