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    bundeswehr generals and admirals who won the rk


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    might be interesting to some here:

    also includes some NVA officers :whistle:

    Wilhelm Adam (NVA)

    Eckart Afheldt (Heer)

    Friedrich Albrecht (Heer)

    Wilhelm Antrup (Luftwaffe)

    Bern von Baer (Heer)

    Gerhard Barkhorn (Luftwaffe)

    Heinrich von Behr (Heer)

    Carl Heinz Birnbacher (Marine)

    Adalbert von Blanc (Marine)

    Friedrich Buchenau (Heer)

    Rudolf Gustav Buhse (Heer)

    Johann Condné (Heer)

    Heinz Cramer (Luftwaffe)

    Kurt Deichen gen. Charly (Heer)

    Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt (Heer)

    Ernst-Hindenburg Ebeling (Luftwaffe)

    Werner Ebeling (Heer)

    Walter Enneccerus (Luftwaffe)

    Heinz-Otto Fabian (Heer)

    Wilhelm Fahlbusch (Luftwaffe)

    Friedrich Albert Foertsch (Heer)

    Herbert Fritz (Heer)

    Ludwig Heinrich Gaedcke (Heer)

    Walter Gericke (Heer)

    Carl-Heinz Greve (Luftwaffe)

    Heinz-Günther Guderian (Heer)

    Friedrich Karl Guggenberger (Marine)

    Robert Karl Friedrich Gysae (Marine)

    Martin Harlinghausen (Luftwaffe)

    Hellmuth Hauser (Luftwaffe)

    Heinrich-Georg Hax (Heer)

    Hanns Heise (Luftwaffe)

    Adolf Hempel (Luftwaffe)

    Karl Herzog (Heer)

    Adolf Bruno Heinrich Heusinger (Heer)

    Friedrich August von der Heydte (Heer de Reserve)

    Claus Hinkelbein (Luftwaffe)

    Cord Dietrich Bertram von Hobe (Heer)

    Erich Hohagen (Luftwaffe)

    Theodor Hopf (Heer)

    Paul-Werner Hozzel (Luftwaffe)

    Dietrich-Adolf Hrabak (Luftwaffe)

    Joachim-Friedrich Huth (Luftwaffe)

    Max-Josef Ibel (Luftwaffe)

    Otto Christian Ites (Marine)

    Rolf Johannesson (Marine)

    Josef Kammhuber (Luftwaffe)

    Friedrich Walter Karl Kemnade (Marine)

    Karl Kessel (Luftwaffe)

    Paul-Georg Kleffel (Heer)

    Bernd-Georg Klug (Marine)

    Friedrich Körner (Luftwaffe)

    Otto Korfes (NVA)

    August Wilhelm Otto Kretschmer (Marine)

    Werner Krieger (Heer)

    Hans Kroh (Luftwaffe/Heer)

    Horst Krüger (Luftwaffe)

    Walter Krupinski (Luftwaffe)

    Kurt Kuhlmey (Luftwaffe)

    Günther Kuhnke (Marine)

    Ernst-Friedrich Langenstraß (Heer)

    Günter Langer (Heer)

    Heinz-Georg Lemm (Heer)

    Kurt von Liebenstein (Heer)

    Hans-Joachim Löser (Heer)

    Anton Lorch (Heer)

    Smilo von Lüttwitz (Heer)

    Hellmuth Mäder (Heer)

    Helmut Mahlke (Luftwaffe)

    Gerhard Matzky (Heer)

    Wilhelm Meentzen (Marine)

    Wilhelm Meyn (Luftwaffe)

    Alfred Müller (Heer)

    Vincenz Müller (NVA)

    Joachim-Ernst Oskar Munzel (Heer)

    Horst Niemak (Heer de Reserve)

    Friedrich-Erich Obleser (Luftwaffe)

    Horst Ohrloff (Heer)

    Günther Pape (Heer)

    Max-Josef Pemsel (Heer)

    Ernst Georg Kurt Philipp (Heer)

    Anton-Detlev von Plato (Heer)

    Hermann Plocher (Luftwaffe)

    Franz Pöschl (Heer)

    Joseph-Maria von Radowitz (Heer)

    Günther Rall (Luftwaffe)

    Paul Reichelt (Heer)

    Josef Friedrich Remberg (Luftwaffe)

    Wilhelm Renner (Heer)

    Alfred Ritz (Heer)

    Güstav-Siegfried Rödel (Luftwaffe)

    Hans-Rudolf Rösing (Marine)

    Bernhard Rogge (Marine)

    Horst Rudat (Luftwaffe)

    Friedrich Oskar Ruge (Marine)

    Detlev von Rumohr (Heer)

    Richard Schimpf (Luftwaffe)

    Gottfried Ludwig Horst von Schroeter (Marine)

    Franz-Joseph Schulze (Heer)

    Curt Siewert (Heer)

    Karl-Ernst Smidt (Marine)

    Hans Speidel (Heer)

    Albert Stecken (Luftwaffe)

    Johannes Steinhoff (Luftwaffe)

    Werner Streib (Luftwaffe)

    Hans Teusen (Heer)

    Rolf Thomsen (Marine)

    Erich Topp (Marine)

    Hannes Trautloft (Luftwaffe)

    Heinrich "Heinz" Trettner (Luftwaffe/Heer)

    Henrich von Treuberg Fischler (Heer)

    Günter Vollmer (Heer)

    Rudolf Wätjen (Heer)

    Helmut Walter (Heer)

    Gottfried Ludwig Weber (Heer)

    Ernst Wellmann (Heer)

    Curt von Witzendorff (Heer)

    Max-Eckart Wolff (Marine)

    Hermann Wulf (Heer)

    Edel-Heinrich Zachariae-Lingenthal (Heer)

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    This is very interesting. Can you come up with a list of all RK winners who served in the Bundeswehr? The first one tha tcomes to mind to me is Rudolf Witzig (Heer/Luftwaffe). He served the remainder of his career in the Army and rose to the rank of Colonel of Engineers.

    Hello Ostpreussenmann:

    The reference book by Clemens Range and Andreas Duefel " Die Ritterkreuztraeger der Bundeswehr", 2nd Edition of 2002 lists more than 700 (714) recipients who served as career members, in addition there were several who served in a civilian capacity. The last recipient left the service in 1984.

    I had the pleasure several times to meet the later Admiral Kemnade ( S-Boats during the war) at my parents house after the war ( he was the boss of my father in the insurance business).

    Bernhard H. Holst

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