PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Sann, Fritz
Date of birth: July 29th, 1913 (Kallies/Pommerania, Germany)
Date of death:  May 31st, 1972 (Obernkirchen/Lower Saxony, Germany)
Nationality:  German
BIOGRAPHY: 
Was after receiving his Knights Cross transferred to become Kommandeur Kriegsmarine Infanterie-Regiment 8.
After the Second World War he served in the Bundeswehr and finally reached the rank of Oberstleutnant. He retired on 30th September 1969.
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Hauptmann (Captain)
Unit: 4. / Grenadier-Regiment 479
Awarded on: April 17th, 1943
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Major
Unit: Führer Infanterie-Regiment Riedel / Infanterie-Division Pommernland
Awarded on: April 14th, 1945
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
 
     
NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN SILBER
 
     
EHRENBLATTSPANGE DES HEERES UND WAFFEN-SS
 
     
PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN SILBER
 
 
 
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Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Bender R.J., Breyette T., Tank Killers, RJ Bender Publications, 2000, ISBN 0-912138-83-1
- 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
- Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945
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