WANDMAKER, Helmut
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Wandmaker, Helmut Date of birth:  November 9th, 1916 (Schalkholz/Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) Nationality:  German       KRIEGSVERDIENSTKREUZ 2.KLASSE MIT SCHWERTERN Unit: Ib Ordonnanzoffizier Stab. / infanterie-Regiment 76 Awarded on: September 29th, 1941         MEDAILLE "WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941/42" (OSTMEDAILLE) Unit: Adjudant I. / Infanterie-Regiment 76 Awarded on: July 24th, 1942         EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE Unit: Adjudant I. / Infanterie-Regiment 76 Awarded on: August 21st, 1942         INFANTERIE-STURMABZEICHEN Unit: Adjudant I. / Infanterie-Regiment 76 Awarded on: September 8th, 1942 Details: Bronze version.         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Unit: Adjudant I. / Infanterie-Regiment 76 Awarded on: January 9th, 1943         VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN SCHWARZ Unit: Kompaniechef 4. / Infanterie-Regiment 76 Awarded on: May 20th, 1943         NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN BRONZE Unit: Kompaniechef 4. / Infanterie-Regiment 76 Awarded on: December 26th, 1943         NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN SILBER Unit: Kompaniechef 4. / Infanterie-Regiment 76 Awarded on: December 26th, 1943         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: Hauptmann (Captain) Unit: II. / Grenadier-Regiment 76 (motorisiert) Awarded on: June 1st, 1944         VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN SILBER Unit: II. / Infanterie-Regiment 76 Awarded on: September 6th, 1944         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: Major der Reserve Unit: Kommandeur II. / Panzergrenadier-Regiment 76 Awarded on: April 5th, 1945         NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN GOLD Rank: Major der Reserve Unit: Kommandeur II. / Panzergrenadier-Regiment 76 Awarded on: April 7th, 1945         Provide alterations or additional information Picture source:   - Wilco Vermeer 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 - Wehrmacht Awards.com - 20.Panzergrenadierdivision - Dörr M., Die träger der Nahkampfspange in Gold, Heer- Luftwaffe- Waffen-SS 1943-1945, Biblio Verlag Bisendorf, 2006.