PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Göpfert, Christian
Date of birth: August 28th, 1910 (Frankfurt am Main/Hesse-Nassau, Germany)
Nationality:  German
     
MEDAILLE "WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941/42" (OSTMEDAILLE)
Awarded on: August 29th, 1942
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Unit: Sturm-Pionier-Bataillon 51
Awarded on: September 25th, 1941
 
     
ALLGEMEINES STURM ABZEICHEN OHNE ZAHLEN
Unit: 1. / Pionier-Bataillon 51
Awarded on: 1941
 
     
VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN SILBER
Awarded on: October 1st, 1943
 
     
NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN GOLD
Rank: Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant)
Unit: 2. / Panzer-Pionier-Bataillon 51
Awarded on: October 28th, 1943
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Awarded on: November 24th, 1943
Action: Received for his part in the taking of 150 Soviet Sailers as Prisoner-of-War, after firing upon and sinking a gunboat flotilla on the Dnjepr.
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant)
Unit: Panzer-Pionier-Bataillon 51
Awarded on: October 29th, 1944
Details: According a declaration with his awards, send on July 11th, 1945, his DKiG was received on November 9th, 1944.
 
     
NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN SILBER
 
     
NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN BRONZE
 
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Picture source:   - Jan-Hendrik Wendler
Information source(s):   - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
- A signed declaration with his awards, signed on July 11th, 1945
- Soldbuch
- Vorläufiges Besitzzeugnis NKSiG
- War diary
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