List of bearers of oak leaves with swords and diamonds for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
The following list shows all 27 bearers of the oak leaves with swords and diamonds for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross . Thereafter it was given to twelve members of the Luftwaffe , eleven members of the army and two each from the Navy and the Waffen SS .
The minimum requirement for being awarded the Oak Leaves with Swords and Diamonds was the previous award of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. Skipping a stage was not allowed. In the course of the award of the oak leaves with swords and diamonds, the knight's cross was therefore not awarded again, but only the oak leaves with swords and diamonds along with a new collar in a box and an inferior second piece of the oak leaves with swords and diamonds for front use.
Award overview
The rank at the time of the award is given in the rank column.
| No. | Surname | Rank | Branch of service | Award date | image |
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| 1. | Werner Mölders | Lieutenant colonel | air force | July 15, 1941 |
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| 2. | Adolf Galland | Colonel | air force | January 28, 1942 |
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| 3. | Gordon M. Gollob | major | air force | August 30, 1942 |
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| 4th | Hans-Joachim Marseille | First lieutenant | air force | September 2, 1942 |
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| 5. | Hermann Graf | First lieutenant in the reserve | air force | September 16, 1942 |
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| 6th | Erwin Rommel | Field Marshal General | army | March 11, 1943 |
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| 7th | Wolfgang Lüth | Corvette Captain | Navy | August 11, 1943 |
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| 8th. | Walter Nowotny | Captain | air force | October 19, 1943 |
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| 9. | Adelbert Schulz | Colonel | army | December 14, 1943 |
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| 10. | Hans-Ulrich Rudel | major | air force | March 29, 1944 |
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| 11. | Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz | Major general | army | April 15, 1944 |
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| 12. | Herbert Otto Gille | SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS | Armed SS | April 19, 1944 |
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| 13. | Hans Hube | Colonel General | army | April 20, 1944 |
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| 14th | Albert Kesselring | Field Marshal General | air force | July 19, 1944 |
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| 15th | Helmut Lent | Lieutenant colonel | air force | July 31, 1944 |
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| 16. | Sepp Dietrich | SS Colonel Group Leader and Colonel General of the Waffen SS | Armed SS | August 6, 1944 |
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| 17th | Walter Model | Field Marshal General | army | August 17, 1944 |
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| 18th | Erich Hartmann | First lieutenant | air force | August 25, 1944 |
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| 19th | Hermann Balck | General of the armored force | army | August 31, 1944 |
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| 20th | Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke | Parachute General | air force | September 19, 1944 |
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| 21st | Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer | Captain | air force | October 16, 1944 | |
| 22nd | Albrecht Brandi | Corvette Captain | Navy | November 24, 1944 |
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| 23. | Ferdinand Schörner | Colonel General | army | January 1, 1945 |
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| 24. | Hasso von Manteuffel | General of the armored force | army | February 18, 1945 |
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| 25th | Theodor Tolsdorff | Lieutenant General | army | March 18, 1945 |
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| 26th | Karl Mauss | Lieutenant General | army | April 15, 1945 |
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| 27. | Dietrich von Saucken | General of the armored force | army | May 8, 1945 |
literature
- Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 1939–1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 .
- Günter Fraschka : With swords and diamonds: The bearers of the highest German valor award. 10th edition. Universitas Verlag, Wiesbaden / Munich 2002, ISBN 3-8004-1435-X .