KRAEMER, Fritz
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Kraemer, Fritz Date of birth:  December 12th, 1900 (Stettin/West Pomerania, Germany) Date of death:  June 23rd, 1959 (Hamburg-Ohlsdorf/Lower Saxony, Germany) Nationality:  German BIOGRAPHY:  Promotions: 1st October 1934: Commission in the Heer 1st April 1942: Oberstleutnant 1st January 1943: Oberst 1st September 1943: SS-Oberführer       EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE Awarded on: October 6th, 1939         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Awarded on: May 26th, 1940         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: Major im Generalstab Unit: Ia Generalstab 13.Panzer-Division Awarded on: January 29th, 1942 Details: Award 66/44.         MEDAILLE "WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941/42" (OSTMEDAILLE) Awarded on: August 3rd, 1942         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: Oberstleutnant im Generalstab Unit: Ia 13.Panzer-Division / 1.Panzer-Armee / Heeresgruppe A Awarded on: December 27th, 1942 Details: 1351st Award.         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB Rank: SS-Brigadefuhrer / Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Unit: Chef Stabes 6.Panzer-Armee Awarded on: May 6th, 1945 Details: The award for the Eichenlaub is still uncertain and unconfirmed. The submission is confirmed, but uncertain is wether accoridng to the usual way during the last days of the War (Dönitz-Erlass) an awarding can be accounted.         Provide alterations or additional information Picture source:   - Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002 - Kwasny A., Kwasny G., Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945 (CD), Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv, Lage-Waddenhausen, 2001 - Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001 - 12. SS-Panzerdivision "Hitlerjugend"