Last awards of Blood Order?

[Matthew]

I have read in few sources that the last awardee of BO was Reinhard Heydrich- 1942. That doesn't seem right.
Does anyone here know when the last award ceremonies for BO took place?
While we're on the subject- who would be the person authorized to award those to the recipients?
Thanks in advance.

cheers

Matt

[ErichS]

Matt,
It is now known that the awarding of posthumous BOs was not done and Heydrich was not awarded the BO. He was awarded the German Order which was pinned to his funeral pillow.

[Matthew]

Heydrich's case notwithstanding,

The way I understood this was that no awards took place after 1942.
Are any awards known past that date?

cheers

Matt

[Military]

Erich,

Wasn't Heydrich considered to be one of Hitler's men in his inner circle? Why wouldn't he be considered for a "honorary" BO in light of his "contributions"?

Mil

Matt,
It is now known that the awarding of posthumous BOs was not done and Heydrich was not awarded the BO. He was awarded the German Order which was pinned to his funeral pillow.

[ErichS]

Matt,

Some sources have the last BO awarded in 1944.

Mil,

Certain qualifications to receive the 2nd pattern had to be met and Heydrich didn't meet any of the qualifications.

[Matthew]

1944

That would make sense then as I stumbled upon some pics of what was described as Blood Award Ceremony dated May 1944(!).

cheers

Matt

[Br. James]

According to Klaus Patzwall, the final 'proposal list' of recipients of the 2nd Issue BO was dated may 6, 1942.

Br. James

[Matthew]

44

Here is a pic showing an award given out to recipient Karl Scherer. Is his name attached to an award number so far and if so what is his BO#?
Date of this one is unclear as it simply says 39-44 but there are other pics that are actually dated (May 1944) showing others getting their BO's. They come from Polish Archives. Makes sense seeing who was giving out those awards that they ended up there.
Perhaps those materials were unknown or unavailable at the time Klaus produced his work? Either way they exist now so that would I think disprove his theory.
Picture credit: NAC.

cheers

Matt

[ErichS]

According to Klaus Patzwall, the final 'proposal list' of recipients of the 2nd Issue BO was dated may 6, 1942.

Br. James

James, I don't own the book but think Patzwall was possibly referring to Heydrich's BO which we now know that he didn't receive. I have seen a BO numbered above 4300 which was awarded very late most likely in 1943-44.

Matt, mostly all we have with a few exceptions are only the names of those who received the 2nd pattern with no corresponding numbers to match them to.

[Matthew]

Bo 44

And here is the photo dated May 1944 depicting a BO Awarding Ceremony.
Picture credit NAC.

cheers

Matt

[Br. James]

Hi friends,

Erich -- The Patzwall BO list does not include Heydrich's name in the index, so he is not present on any of the proposal lists. As you know, Patzwall's lists of the 2nd Issue BO recipients does not generally include the BO number assigned to each person, though there are a few numbers present throughout. What is confusing is that, while the Patzwall lists are presented in alphabetic order by last name, the few numbers present do not maintain the alphabetic sequence, which probably means that the numbers were assigned after each list was drawn up. The last assigned number on the final proposal list, that of May 6, 1942, is #3998 assigned to Georg Will. But Will is not the last name on that list, in alphabetic order; there are three which follow his name in alphabetic order, which may indicate that the very last number assigned was 4001...??

Matthew -- According to the Patzwall list, Karl Scherer received a 2nd Issue BO award bearing the #3429 (one of the few 2nd Issue numbers Patzwall provides); Scherer's name appears on the proposed list dated October 23, 1940.

Hope this is helpful, friends!

Br. James