PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Krüger, Walter (WH-Panzer)
Date of birth: March 23rd, 1892 (Zeitz/Saxony, Germany)
Date of death:  July 11th, 1973
Nationality:  German
     
1939 SPANGE ZUM EISERNEN KREUZES 2ER KLASSE 1914
Awarded on: May 12th, 1940
Details: Had already received the Iron Cross 2nd Class on October 9th 1914.
 
     
1939 SPANGE ZUM EISERNEN KREUZES 1ER KLASSE 1914
Awarded on: May 13th, 1940
Details: Had already received the Iron Cross 1st Class on July 29th 1916.
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Generalmajor
Unit: Kommandeur 1.Schützen-Brigade / 1.Panzer-Division / (mot) XXXXI.Armee-Korps / Panzergruppe 4 / Heeresgruppe Nord
Awarded on: July 15th, 1941
Details: 350th Award.
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Generalmajor
Unit: Kommandeur 1.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: August 27th, 1942
Details: Award 170/3.
 
     
WEHRMACHTBERICHT
Awarded on: December 14th, 1943
 
     
RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB
Rank: Generalleutnant
Unit: Kommandeur 1.Panzer-Division / XXXXVIII.Panzer-Korps / 4.Panzer-Armee / Heeresgruppe Süd
Awarded on: January 24th, 1944
Details: 373rd Award.
 
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Picture source:   - Wilco Vermeer collection, the Netherlands
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
- 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
- Axis History Biographical Research via Axis History Forum
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