PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Poel, Gustav Artur Eduard Johann
Date of birth: August 2nd, 1917 (Hamburg, Germany)
Date of death:  January 16th, 2009 (Hamburg/Lowersaxony, Germany)
Nationality:  German
     
SPANIENKREUZ, BRONZE MIT SCHWERTERN
Rank: Leutnant zur See (Sub-Lieutenant)
Awarded on: June 6th, 1939
 
     
U-BOOT KRIEGSABZEICHEN (OHNE BRILLIANTEN)
Rank: Leutnant zur See (Sub-Lieutenant)
Awarded on: November 8th, 1939
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Rank: Leutnant zur See (Sub-Lieutenant)
Awarded on: February 28th, 1940
 
     
CROCE AL VALORE DI GUERRA
Awarded on: November 1st, 1941
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Rank: Oberleutnant zur See
Unit: Kommandant "U 413"
Awarded on: November 26th, 1942
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Kapitänleutnant (Lieutenant)
Unit: Kommandant "U 413" / 1.Unterseebootsflottille
Awarded on: December 17th, 1943
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Kapitänleutenant zur See (Lieutenant)
Unit: Kommandant "U 413" / 1.Unterseebootsflottille
Awarded on: March 21st, 1944
 
     
U-BOOT FRONTSPANGE IN BRONZE
Rank: Kapitänleutenant zur See (Lieutenant)
Unit: Stab des Kommandierende Admiral der U-Boote
Awarded on: April 27th, 1945
 
 
 
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Picture source:   - Willi Schumacher Collection
Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
- Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X
- Ritterkreuz Archiv II/2009, Veit Scherzer, Ranis, Juni 2009, ISSN 1866-4709
- Deutsche Marinesoldaten
- Axis History Forum
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