PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Nökel, Friedrich-Karl
Date of birth: June 2nd, 1917 (Langenberg/Rhine Province, Germany)
Date of death:  October 17th, 1998 (Neumünster/Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Nationality:  German
     
MEDAILLE ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DEN 1. OKTOBER 1938
Rank: Unteroffizier (Junior Sergeant)
Unit: Reserveoffizieranwärter (R.O.A.) Panzer-Regiment 15
Awarded on: November 5th, 1939
 
     
SPANGE ZUR MEDAILLE ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DEN 1. OKTOBER 1938
Rank: Unteroffizier (Junior Sergeant)
Unit: Reserveoffizieranwärter (R.O.A.) Panzer-Regiment 15
Awarded on: November 5th, 1939
 
     
PANZERKAMPFABZEICHEN (OHNE ZAHLEN)
Unit: Zugführer Panzer-Regiment 31 / 5.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: May 26th, 1940
Details: Silver version.
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Unit: Zugführer Panzer-Regiment 31 / 5.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: May 26th, 1940
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Unit: Stab Panzer-Regiment 31 / 5.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: February 25th, 1942
 
     
MEDAILLE "WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941/42" (OSTMEDAILLE)
Rank: Leutnant der Reserve (2nd Lieutenant)
Unit: Stab I. / Panzer-Regiment 31 / 5.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: August 15th, 1942
 
     
VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN SCHWARZ
Rank: Oberleutnant der Reserve (1st Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit: Chef 5. / Panzer-Regiment 31 / 5.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: March 18th, 1943
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Oberleutnant der Reserve (1st Lieutenant of Reserves)
Unit: Chef 5. / Panzer-Regiment 31 / 5.Panzer-Division / 2.Panzerarmee / Heeresgruppe Mitte
Awarded on: April 2nd, 1943
 
     
PANZERKAMPFABZEICHEN II STUFE "25"
Rank: Hauptmann der Reserve (Captain of Reserves)
Unit: 2.(Panther) / Panzer-Regiment 31 / 5.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: July 11th, 1944
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Hauptmann der Reserve (Captain of Reserves)
Unit: Führer II. / Panzer-Regiment 31 / 5.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: September 17th, 1944
 
     
PANZERKAMPFABZEICHEN III STUFE "50"
Rank: Major
Unit: Kommandeur II. / Panzer-Regiment 31 / 5.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: September 22nd, 1944
 
     
PANZERKAMPFABZEICHEN IV STUFE "75"
Rank: Major
Unit: Kommandeur II. / Panzer-Regiment 31 / 5.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: December 4th, 1944
 
     
VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN SILBER
 
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Picture source:   - Peter van Holsteijn
Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- 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
- Federl, C., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Panzerdivisionen 1939-1945, VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, Germany, 2000
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