Good evening everybody! My name is Federico Peyrani, my website is http://www.okh.it/ (check the GoogleEarth military bookmarks!!) What you found here is very interesting. For my University studies I have known some members of the Tiger Abteilung 504, among them some knew Wriedt. You can check on my website at www.okh.it/504/indexEng.htm for a short history of the unit. I can confirm that he was the Commander (Chef) of the 3./504 after the reorganisation that took place unitl June 1944. He fought with the 3./504 in Toscana in June-July 1944 and then since September 1944 in Emilia in the Gothic Line by San Marino. He came from the 18. Panzer Abteilung of the disbanded 18. Panzer-Division. The men I know, mostly Lt. K. Goldschmidt and Ofw. A. G?nther told me about a very Career-oriented Officer, not too friendly with them. They used with despise the German word 'Politikant', not so clear to me (he was a 'Politikant'!). They did not love him and said he didn't want in his Company people more decorated than him. Goldschmidt was with the 3./504 in Toscana, and then passed in the 2./504 in Emilia with his Friend from Sicily, Lt. Herbert Heim. By the way, in the same days (22 April 1945), Goldschmidt was awarded the DKiG for an attack near Finale Emilia, in which he was said to have freed from encirclement the I. Fallschirmkorps retreating from Bologna. They say was thanked from the commander of the Fallschirmkorps, Heidrich. After the war Wriedt was never welcome at the meetings of the 504 sPzAbt. If you need some other news aobut them I have to search in my docs. The docs are very interesting for me! I can share them for the .jpg of the urkunde for the Ritterkreuz of Major August Seidesticker of the 504 in Tunisia. Federico Peyrani
