PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Risse, Walther
Date of birth: December 13th, 1892 (Geithain/Saxony, Germany)
Date of death:  June 21st, 1965 (Hamburg/Lower Saxony, Germany)
Nationality:  German
     
1939 SPANGE ZUM EISERNEN KREUZES 2ER KLASSE 1914
Awarded on: May 15th, 1940
 
     
1939 SPANGE ZUM EISERNEN KREUZES 1ER KLASSE 1914
Awarded on: June 4th, 1940
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Oberst
Unit: Kommandeur Infanterie-Regiment 474 / / 254.Infanterie-Division / XXXXII.Armee-Korps / 18.Armee / Heeresgruppe Nord
Awarded on: September 22nd, 1941
Details: 526th Award.
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Generalleutnant
Unit: Kommandeur 225.Infanterie-Division
Awarded on: September 30th, 1944
Details: Award 639/26
 
     
WEHRMACHTBERICHT
Awarded on: December 28th, 1944
 
     
RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB
Rank: Generalleutnant
Unit: Kommandeur 225.Infanterie-Division / I.Armee-Korps / 18.Armee / Heeresgruppe Nord
Awarded on: January 18th, 1945
Details: 704th Award.
 
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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
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