Knights Cross Recipients Who Are Still Living

[don_kihotis7]

Hi Tomo, i had yesterday another reply from Herr Ribbentrop.

[herrzark]

Great chris

[don_kihotis7]

Thank you bro

[Eelst]

I received a letter from Karl-Ludwig Barths last week - his English is excellent!
Cheers,
Thomas

Yes, if you take a look to his bio in Wikipedia,you can see that he lived for about 10 years in Canada, and was responsable of Volkswagen's businnes in North America,so he had to know it!

[Tomo]

Excellent stuff Chris!
I hope that one day soon a book solely about Herr von Ribbentrop's wartime experiences will be published - I am sure it would sell very well!

Thanks also to Eelst for your reply. I have a signed copy of Herr Barths book "Jungmann" - I hope that will be available in English at some point as well..

Cheers,
Thomas

[don_kihotis7]

Excellent stuff Chris!
I hope that one day soon a book solely about Herr von Ribbentrop's wartime experiences will be published - I am sure it would sell very well!

Thanks also to Eelst for your reply. I have a signed copy of Herr Barths book "Jungmann" - I hope that will be available in English at some point as well..

Cheers,
Thomas

Thomas did you also ask for a signed photo? I have heard that he refuses to sign any photos in uniform etc. I was wondering if that is true.

[Tomo]

Hi Chris,

Yes you are correct. Herr Barths will only sign copies of his book - no photos etc. He may have signed photos in the early days (70's/80's) but alas I wasn't around then unfortunately...

Cheers,
Thomas

[don_kihotis7]

Oh well we can't have everything. I will settle with just the book

[Eelst]

Hi

in red: dead
for others, still alive or fate unknown

Adamowitsch, Felix
Adriano, Friedrich
Altermann, Karl-Heinz
Angelmaier, Heinz
Bachor, Willy
Barths, Karl-Ludwig
Bauer, Erhard
Bauer, Ludwig
Bayer, Franz
Becher, Karl
Becker, Arthur
Becker, Karl-Heinz
Beschwitz, Frhr. Werner von
Biehl, Johann
Bischof, Kurt
Bleher, Georg
Bloch, Johann
Böhm, Walter
Bose, Georg
Braake, Günter
Breuker, Helmuth
Brunk, Edgar
Bürger, Otto
Carius, Otto
Carl, Friedrich
Damerius, Dieter
Dennhardt, Oskar-Hubert
Ditter, Hans
Eikmeier, (Prof.Dr.) Hans
Einfalt, Johann
Fasel, Walter
Fischer, Gerhard
Fleischmann, Ludwig
Franke, Adolf Name unknown to me
Frankenfeld, Erwin
Freyer, Siegfried
Friedrich, Max
Gazen, gen. Gaza, Waldemar von
Gläsche, Dieter
Glätzer, Karl
Günter, Wilhelm
Halm, Günther
Hammerschmidt, (Dr.) Josef
Hase, Karl-Günther von
Heim, Herbert
Heinrici, Hans-Joachim
Henke, Max
Herlt, Ernst
Hermes, Otmar
Heyking, Baron Ernst Georg von
Hönig, Justin
Höper, Ahrend
Hoppe, Gerhard
Hümmerich, Willi
Jeserer, Helmut
ter Jung, Dietrich
Kainz, Karl
Kaminski, August
Kamski, Johann (Jan)
Kardel, Hennecke
Keppel, Wilhelm
Kerscher, Albert
Kitta, Paul
Kleffel, Paul-Georg
Klemann, Helmut
Klose, Helmut
Koll, Johannes
Kox, Peter
Krenz, Wilhelm
Kreßmann, Erwin
Krettek, Heinz
Krieg, Gerhard
Kröhne, Wilhelm
Kroj, Theo
Krück, (Prof. Dr.) Fritz
Kuchar, Jakob
Kuhna, Bernhard
Kunz, Hermann
Laage, (Prof. Dr.) Karl-Ernst
Lämmel, Walter
Lang, Ludwig
Lawrenz, Johannes
Lehner, Wilhelm
Leipzig, Hellmut von
Liese (Dr.) Kurt-Günther
Lindemann, Karl-Wilhelm
Linke, Gottfried
Loos, Walter
Lorenz, Alfred
Lorenzen, Karl
Lorfing, Artur
Lutze, Helmut
Mahlmann, Friedrich
Mangels, Hermann
Manns, Werner
Matheja, Siegmund
Mehrle, (Dr.) Hans
Mertens, Ewald
Meyer, Günter
Munser, Rudolf
Neumayr, Lorenz
Nitsch, Hans-Joachim
Nitsch, Hermann
Nolte, Harro
Paukner, Ernst
Peschel, Georg
Peschke, Otto
Peter, Rudolf
Pfattischer, Josef
Podrasa, Reinhold
Post, Martin
Preiss, Josef
Prochazka, Frhr. Robert von
Rademacher, Karl
Rafoth, (Dr.) Heinz
Regeniter, (Dr. med.) Alfred
Rehbein, Max
Reich, Johann
Remmert, Heinz
Rhein, Ernst-Martin
Richter, Franz
Rinkowski, Leo
Ritter, Anton
Ritter, (Prof. Dr.) Klaus
Rothhardt, Heinz
Rottensteiner, Johann
Rudler, Oskar
Ruhl, Heinrich
Sachs, Hans
Sauerbrei, Rudolf
Schädlich, Gottfried
Schallenberg, Rudolf
Scharff, Heinrich
Scheele, Alfons
Scheunemann, Kurt
Schmelzinger, Bruno
Schneider, (Dr.) Paul
Schoen, Hellmuth
Schuster, Karl
Schwarm, Kurt
Schwerdtfeger, Johann
Seeber, Helmut
Seibel, Josef
Sekund, Alfred
Siegert, Wilhelm
Simons, (Dr.) Gerhard
Störck, Georg
Stoll, Paul
Stolte, Anton
Sturm, (Dr.) Hans-Hermann
Timpe, Heinz
Titel, Georg
Tycowicz, Rudolf von
Uhde, Hans
Vehse, Fritz
Weber, Franz
Wegener, Werner
Wehinger, Anton
Wehking, Hermann
Weidenbrück, Wilhelm
Weisleder, Hans-Georg
Wieselhuber, Helmut
Wilborn, Manfred
Wilde, (Dr.) Heinz
Wilfling, Günther
Wolff, (Dr.) Hanns
Wunderlich, Achim
Wutzel, (Dr.) Otto
Zastrow, Max
Zinsser,Ludwig
Zoppoth, Gerhard

LUFTWAFFE

Ackermann, Georg
Aechtner, Fritz
Axthammer, Erich
Becker, Günther
Beeger, Horst
Behm, Herbert
Benning, Dr. Anton
Bertram, Hans-Wilhelm
Bierbrauer, Günther
Bleckl, Karl
Bob, Hans-Ekkehard
Brandenburg, Max
Brinckmann, Friedrich
Broch, Hugo
Büssecke, Arthur
Busch, Rudolf
Cordes, Udo
Dahlmann, Kurt
Diekwisch, Erwin
Drescher, Georg-Wilhelm
Drewes, Martin
Eberspächer, Dipl.Ing. Helmut
Fechner, Konrad
Felder, Paul
Fries, Herbert
Gapp, Franz
Gast, Robert
Geisler, Siegfried
Gerstner, Siegfried
Glasner, Günter
Grasemann, Walter
Greiner, Hermann
Hagena, Gottfried
Heinemann, Anton
Hermichen, Rolf
Hoffmann, Werner
Hormann, Hans
Husemann, Werner
Jamrowski, Siegfried
Juditzki, Georg
Kieslich, Franz
Klaus, Johann
Krems, Gerhard
Krohn, Hans
Kunkel, Kurt-Ernst
Landgraf, Paul
Meimberg, Julius
Meister, Ludwig
Meyer, Hans
Naumann, Helmut
Neuhoff, Karl
Noller, Wilhelm
Oster, Dieter
Pentzien, Hans
Polz, Heinz
Probst, Heinz
Prößl, Erwin
Raab, Alexander
Reschke, Willi
Richter, Walther
Rökker, Heinz
Rudorffer, Erich
Schleinhege, Hermann
Schmidtberg, Klaus
Schneider, Herbert
Schnell, Karl-Heinz
Schomann, Karl-Heinz
Schuck, Walter
Schultz, Otto
Seyffardt, Fritz
Skorczewski, Wolfgang
Spadiut, (Dr.) Hubert
Stecken, Albert
Stollnberger, Hans
Südel, Heinrich
Taeger, Erich
Thoß, Werner
Trummer, Hans
Tscherning, Willy
Vitali, Viktor
Voß, Reiner
Wilke, (Dr.) Karl-Heinz
Witzel, Dietrich
Zorner, Paul

MARINE

Brasack, Paul
Eick, Alfred
Gerhold, Walther
Hardegen, Reinhard
Lange, Hans-Günther
Lassen, Georg
Wiebe, Karl-Heinz
Wulff, Erich

WAFFEN-SS

Boosfeld, Joachim
Brommann, Karl
Buck, Friedrich
Euling, Karl-Heinz
Fischer, Gerhard
Gebhard
Grätz, Erich
Heder, Eberhard
Kam, Soeren
Langanke, Fritz
Lange, Günther
Nugiskes, Harald
Ribbentrop, Rudolf von
Röllecke, Josef
Sametreiter, Kurt
Schäfer, Oskar
Schnaubelt, Alois
Sonne, Heinrich
Wanhöfer, Günter

Regards

Phil.

HEER

Willy Bachor + 20.3.2008
Karl Becher + 10.5.2007
Johann Bloch + 13.12.2004
Edgar Brunk + 31.8.2007
Otto Bürger + 2.4.2006
Johann Einfalt + 23.1.2007
Ludwig Fleischmann + 30.6.2005
Max Friedrich + 28.4.2007
Georg von Heyking + 25.10.2007
Johann Kamski + 25.6.2008
Hennecke Kardel + 24.6.2007
Paul Kitta + 11.5.1947
Helmut Klose + 19.6.2002
Johannes Koll + 7.8.2007
Walter Lämmel + 4.6.2009
Johannes Lawrenz + 12.11.2009
Kurt Günter Liese + 7.11.2007
Walter Loos + 27.10.2004
Alfred Lorenz + 20.6.1989
Karl Lorenzen + 11.11.2003
Friedrich Mahlmann + 30.11.2009
Werner Manns + 10.5.2004
Hans Mehrle + 12.4.2008
Otto Peschke + 12.6.2007
Franz Richter + 1980
Anton Ritter + 20.1.2007
Rudolf Sauerbrei + 22.7.2007
Gottfried Schädlich + 12.5.2007
Hellmuth Schoen + 18.8.2006
Karl Schuster + 17.8.2006
Rudolf von Tycowicz + 19.11.2007
Werner Wegener + 26.7.1989
Hans Georg Weisleder + 13.9.2008
Hanns Wolff + 14.5.2007


LUFTWAFFE

Georg Ackermann + 16.12.2007
Fritz Aechtner + 1.5.2007
Günther Becker + 20.10.1953
Horst Beeger + 3.3.1998
Herbert Behm + 24.6.1961
Hans Wilhelm Bertram + 1.10.2007
Rudolf Busch + 5.9.2007
Udo Cordes + 7.3.2007
Siegfried Geisler + 1.8.2003
Walter Grasemann + 26.11.2007
Hans Hormann + 9.12.2004
Georg Juditzki + 1.7.2007
Karl Neuhoff + 25.12.2001
Hans Pentzien + 3.5.2007
Karl Heinz Schomann + 21.8.2006
Wolfgang Skorczewski + 30.11.2005
Werner Thoß + 9.5.2001
Karl Heinz Wilke + 21.11.2007


KRIEGSMARINE

Erich Wulff + 12.1.1979


Herbert Schneider + 1.12.2011

Karl Bleckl + 26.3.2013

Still looking for the d.o.d. of Erich Grätz and Heinrich Witt (KM)

[Rommel15]

I thought I saw a post stating that Siegfried Jamrowski had passed away several months ago.

[typhoon boy]

Hi,
on your list of RK who have as died I know the following Luftwaffe guys are no longer with us:

Eberspacher, Felder, Gast, Gerstner, Jamrowski, Juditzki, Kieslich, Kunkel, Noller, Richter, Seyffardt, Stecken, Sudel, Taeger, Tscherning and Vitali.

Not sure who Witzel is? Also I do not know when Helmut Naumann died. What about Horst Harras, Hans Hoppe, Karl Kern, Alfred Koeditz, Hans-Gunther Koehne, Heinz Krink, Werner Spindler and Karl Tannert.

Bryan

[Eelst]

Hi,
on your list of RK who have as died I know the following Luftwaffe guys are no longer with us:

Eberspacher, Felder, Gast, Gerstner, Jamrowski, Juditzki, Kieslich, Kunkel, Noller, Richter, Seyffardt, Stecken, Sudel, Taeger, Tscherning and Vitali.

Not sure who Witzel is? Also I do not know when Helmut Naumann died. What about Horst Harras, Hans Hoppe, Karl Kern, Alfred Koeditz, Hans-Gunther Koehne, Heinz Krink, Werner Spindler and Karl Tannert.

Bryan

Is Dietrich Witzel-Kirn.
Can't tell you about the others but I think they're all dead.

[dave ouaitine]

Hi,
on your list of RK who have as died I know the following Luftwaffe guys are no longer with us:

Eberspacher, Felder, Gast, Gerstner, Jamrowski, Juditzki, Kieslich, Kunkel, Noller, Richter, Seyffardt, Stecken, Sudel, Taeger, Tscherning and Vitali.

Not sure who Witzel is? Also I do not know when Helmut Naumann died. What about Horst Harras, Hans Hoppe, Karl Kern, Alfred Koeditz, Hans-Gunther Koehne, Heinz Krink, Werner Spindler and Karl Tannert.

Bryan

Helmut Neumann of JG5 R/K 12.3.45 21.11.1921/21.04.1992
Dave

[typhoon boy]

Helmut Naumann

Thanks Dave,
but it the Stuka guy Helmut Naumann that I don't have the DoD details for.

But thanks

Bryan

[Eelst]

Hi,
on your list of RK who have as died I know the following Luftwaffe guys are no longer with us:

Eberspacher, Felder, Gast, Gerstner, Jamrowski, Juditzki, Kieslich, Kunkel, Noller, Richter, Seyffardt, Stecken, Sudel, Taeger, Tscherning and Vitali.

Not sure who Witzel is? Also I do not know when Helmut Naumann died. What about Horst Harras, Hans Hoppe, Karl Kern, Alfred Koeditz, Hans-Gunther Koehne, Heinz Krink, Werner Spindler and Karl Tannert.

Bryan

Walther Richter + 17.11.1996

Karl Tannert changed his name during the war.He reiceved the DKiG on 11.3.1942 as Karl Tyczka.

Regarding Luftwaffe-RKT with unclear/unknown fate, we can talk about Alfons Bialetzki: some sources reports him as KIA in Ostfront in 1945, others that survived and lived in Poland under a false name.

Did someone have some infos about Paul Landgraf and Karl Hamberger?I saw Hamberger as missing since 1.1945 in Ostpreußen, but the site http://www.das-ritterkreuz.de/index.php4 give him as dead on 28.8.2011.