kreigmarine kc winner info!!Help!!!

[paddywhack]

iv been trying to find info on 2 km kinghts cross winners but iv just not been able to find anything!! about from the dates when they werte awarded there kcs!
any help would be realy cool!
thanks for any help you can give me!

[François SAEZ]

Their names could help, no?

[paddywhack]

ah cr@p! oops thanks for that francois!!!
first is horst weber and he was a eboat commander the secand is Gerhard Bielig
he was a destroyer captain im told! thanks again!

[Rick Research]

"small clues" like NAMES help!

Gerhard Bielig was an ENGINEER, not an executive officer.
born 28 April 1916 and still alive in 1991. Crew 1934:

Leutnant (Ing.) 1.4.37 #8
Oberleutnant(Ing)
Kapitänleutnant (Ing) 1.10.41 #1

and retired with that rank, which would have been later backdated seniority after getting his German Cross and Knight's Cross (theoretically back a year's seniority each).

German Cross in Gold 9.12.41 as Oberlt (Ing.) "leading engineer of a submarine" (His KC was as L.E. of "U-177" not a destroyer)

wife Marianne Bastian (if any relationship to the Admiral unknown) born 16.1.19XX.

In 1963 he was employed by German Lloyd in Düsseldorf. Resident in Neuss am Rhein from at least 1960-1991

Horst Weber born 8 August 1919 and alive 1991. Crew 1937b, however he was a RESERVE officer, so no Rank Lists for him.

German Cross in Gold 21.11.42 as Oberlt zS(dR) "commander of a torpedoboat"

Retired as Kapitänleutnant zS dR


Wife Rosemarie Sommer b. 9.6.1925.

After the war Dr.jur. In 1960 legal counsel of Vereinigte Industrieunternehmungen AG, Bonn. In 1983 on Board of Directors, Aluminium-Werke AG Berlin-Bonn, living in Meckenheim

[paddywhack]

sweet! nice one rick! you wouldnt by any chance know when they got there eks 2nd and 1st at all?
thanks again and you are of course right names do help with research!!!!
oh and its my 500th post!! drinks are on me!!!

[Denis]

Hi
Gerhard Bielig was awarded the EK1 on 21/10/40
Horst Weber was awarded the EK1 on 28/07/41.
As far as I know, both are still alive.
Regards
Denis

[paddywhack]

cheers denis! thanks for that!!! thanks for all the info by the way!