BLANC, von, Adalbert
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Blanc, von, Adalbert Date of birth:  July 11th, 1907 (Wilhelmshaven/Hannover, Germany) Date of death:  November 7th, 1976 (Flensburg-Mürwick/Schleswick-Holstein, Germany) Nationality:  German BIOGRAPHY:  Adalbert von Blanc finally became Flottenadmiral with the Bundeswehr.       EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE Awarded on: September 15th, 1940         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Awarded on: October 17th, 1940         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: Korvettenkapitän Unit: Admiralstabsoffizier 2.Sicherungsdivision Awarded on: September 11th, 1942         WEHRMACHTBERICHT Awarded on: November 25th, 1944         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: Fregattenkapitän Unit: Führer 9.Sicherungsdivision Awarded on: November 27th, 1944 Details: 280th award.         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB Rank: Fregattenkapitän Unit: Führer 9.Sicherungsdivision Awarded on: May 6th, 1945 Details: The formal awarding of the Eichenlaub to Jodl is uncertain. The numbering of official awardings had stopped at 843. According to the known data, this should have been the 866th award.         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 - 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