Show us your favourite Ritterkreuz photo

[harmel]

kc pics

Todd-809-I would say Joachim-Friedrich Huth,later
Generalleutnant,also in 1959 was a GL in the Bundeswehr.
Harmel

[Todd Gylsen]

Thanks once more Harmel!!

[Adrian]

Hi Todd,
Can you tell if the RK in post 809 is a 3/4 ring version?

[Todd Gylsen]

Adrian,

I honostly don't know what a 3/4 ring version of the RK is? I can try post a high res scan of the image if that will help you out.

Todd

[Mark C. Yerger]

Steinhoff, Swords holder

[Mark C. Yerger]

Waffen-SS Swords holder Otto Weidinger and I in the mid-1980s.

[Todd Gylsen]

Oberleutnant Genzow

[Todd Gylsen]

Hauptmann Erwin Fischer

[John Toner]

Todd

Your captions are the wrong way round. First is Genzow then Fischer.

John

[Todd Gylsen]

Ooops. I'll have to fix this error. Thanks for the correction.

[relichelmet]

Here is my only Ritterkreuz Trager photo, this is a private portrait. I have not been able to identify him yet, could anyone help me please?

[relichelmet]

does no one recognise him? please share your thoughts

[kleinerbaer1970]

Hi Jason,

which picture are you referring to?? I'm asking, because Heinz Schwöppe is my grandfather.

Regards kleinerbaer

One that has puzzled me for a bit is this fellow. It comes from a photo album from a Luftwaffen-Felddivision, but there is no guarantee this Hauptmann was not from a Flak unit instead. Of the 29 RK-Träger from the field divisions (soldiers who earned at least one grade of the RK serving in a Lw.Felddivision), the only possibilities this man can be are Franz Piehler or Heinz Schwöppe. I have not seen photos of either of these two man, so I just do not know. Any help in identifying this Hauptmann would be greatly appreciated!
Jason

Unknown

[Bobbe]

Waffen-SS Swords holder Otto Weidinger and I in the mid-1980s.

Mark...a good photo to envy you!

Cheers,
Roberto

[Ed Taylor]

A picture with 3 RK owners from the left to the right:

Karl Heinz Schnell - Paul Werner Hozzel - Herbert Stry

There are some misidentifications in this photo. Dr. Ernst Kupfer is 5th from left infront. I believe that the civilian is his father and the little boy is his son. The photo was taken in St Anton, Austrian Alps, when these members of St.G.2 Immelmann were on leave in January 1943. While in St Anton Kupfer received notice he had received the Eichenlaub. The RK 3rd from left in front is Gunther Schmid; 6th from left in front is Bruno Dilley who received Eichenlaub at same time as Kupfer. 7th from left in front is Hans von Herder head of rest home in St Anton (formerly with St.G.2). 8th from left is Herbert Bauer (not 4th from left in back). I don't know the RK 4th from left in back. Bauer was shot in the jaw and you can note the wound. RK 3rd from left in back is Herbert Kaminski. Can anyone identify the others in the photo.