PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Friedrich, Erich (WH-Panzergrenadier)
Date of birth: July 15th, 1914 (Brumby/Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
Date of death:  October 1st, 1983 (Mutterstadt/Rhineland Palatinate, Germany)
Nationality:  German
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Awarded on: August 15th, 1941
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Awarded on: March 23rd, 1942
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Oberfeldwebel
Unit: 1. / Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 33
Awarded on: August 10th, 1943
 
     
ANERKENNUNGSURKUNDE DES OBERBEFEHLSHABERS DES HEERES
Awarded on: November 7th, 1943
 
     
EHRENBLATTSPANGE DES HEERES UND WAFFEN-SS
Awarded on: November 7th, 1943
 
     
NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN GOLD
Rank: Oberfeldwebel
Unit: Zugführer 1. / Panzergrenadier-Regiment 33
Awarded on: August 26th, 1944
Details: 2nd presentation by Adolf Hitler on 5th September 1945.
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Oberfeldwebel
Unit: Truppführer 1. / Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 33 / 4.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: September 2nd, 1944
 
     
VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN GOLD
 
 
 
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Picture source:   - Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv
Information source(s):   - 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 IV/2009, Veit Scherzer, Ranis, Dezember 2009, ISSN 1866-4709
- Axis Biographical Research
- Dörr M., Die träger der Nahkampfspange in Gold, Heer- Luftwaffe- Waffen-SS 1943-1945, Biblio Verlag Bisendorf, 2006.
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