PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Friedrich, Max
Date of birth: March 30th, 1918 (Michalkowitz/Upper Silesia, Germany)
Nationality:  German
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Awarded on: November 3rd, 1939
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Awarded on: December 16th, 1939
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant)
Unit: Zugführer 3. / Pioneer-Bataillon 8
Awarded on: May 19th, 1942
 
     
ANERKENNUNGSURKUNDE DES OBERBEFEHLSHABERS DES HEERES
Rank: Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant)
Unit: Führer 1. / Pionier-Bataillon 8
Awarded on: February 27th, 1944
 
     
EHRENBLATTSPANGE DES HEERES UND WAFFEN-SS
Rank: Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant)
Unit: Führer 1. / Pionier-Bataillon 8
Awarded on: February 27th, 1944
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant)
Unit: Chef Pionier-Kompanie / Division 408 / Kampfgruppe Jollasse
Awarded on: March 23rd, 1945
 
     
NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN GOLD
Rank: Oberleutenant (Lieutenant)
Unit: Kompanieführer Pionier-Kompanie Div.Nr. 408
 
 
 
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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
- Dörr M., Die träger der Nahkampfspange in Gold, Heer- Luftwaffe- Waffen-SS 1943-1945, Biblio Verlag Bisendorf, 2006
- Ehrenblatt des Deutschen Heeres, 27.Februar 1944
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