HOLZER, Friedrich
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Holzer, Friedrich Date of birth:  May 13th, 1912 (Waldegg/Lower Austria, Austria) Date of death:  November 9th, 1984 (Wiener Neustadt/Lower Austria, Austria) Nationality:  Austrian       EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE Awarded on: July 25th, 1940         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Awarded on: July 28th, 1941         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: SS-Obersturmführer (Lieutenant) Unit: Kompanieführer 7. / SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 4 Awarded on: February 21st, 1942         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain) Unit: Kompaniechef 1. / SS-Panzer-Regiment 2 "Das Reich" Awarded on: December 10th, 1943         NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN GOLD Rank: SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain) Unit: Kompaniechef II. / SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 4         INFANTERIE-STURMABZEICHEN         MEDAILLE "WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941/42" (OSTMEDAILLE)         Provide alterations or additional information 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 - Dörr M., Die träger der Nahkampfspange in Gold, Heer- Luftwaffe- Waffen-SS 1943-1945, Biblio Verlag Bisendorf, 2006. - Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945