PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Bierhoff, Franz
Date of birth: October 22nd, 1919 (Stockum, Germany)
Nationality:  German
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Awarded on: August 5th, 1941
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Awarded on: August 7th, 1943
 
     
NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN GOLD
Rank: Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant)
Unit: Zugführer 9. / Panzergrenadier-Regiment 128
Awarded on: July 20th, 1944
Details: 2nd presentation by Adolf Hitler on 5th September 1944.
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant)
Unit: 6. / Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 128
Awarded on: November 8th, 1944
 
 
 
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Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- 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
- Dörr M., Die träger der Nahkampfspange in Gold, Heer- Luftwaffe- Waffen-SS 1943-1945, Biblio Verlag Bisendorf, 2006
- Ritterkreuz Archiv IV/2009, Veit Scherzer, Ranis, Dezember 2009, ISSN 1866-4709
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