WIETERSHEIM, von, Wend
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Wietersheim, von, Wend Date of birth:  April 18th, 1900 (Neuland/Kreis Löwenberg/Silesia, Germany) Date of death:  September 19th, 1975 (Bad Honnef/North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) Nationality:  German       1939 SPANGE ZUM EISERNEN KREUZES 2ER KLASSE 1914 Rank: Hauptmann (Captain) Unit: Adjutant Stab 3.Panzer-Division Awarded on: October 1st, 1939 Details: Had already received the Iron Cross 2nd Class on 5th April 1919.         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Rank: Major Unit: Kommandeur Kradschützen-Bataillon 1 / 1.Panzer-Division Awarded on: May 20th, 1940         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant-colonel) Unit: Kommandeur Kradschützen-Bataillon 1 / 1.Panzer-Division Awarded on: December 24th, 1941 Details: Award 40/7.         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: Oberstleutnant (Luitenant-kolonel) Unit: Kommandeur Schützen-Regiment 113 / 1.Panzer-Division / XXXXI.Armee-Korps / 4.Panzer-Armee / Heeresgruppe Mitte Awarded on: February 10th, 1942 Details: 854th Award.         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB Rank: Oberst (Kolonel) Unit: Kommandeur Panzergrenadier-Regiment 113 / 1.Panzer-Division / 9.Armee / Heeresgruppe Mitte Awarded on: January 12th, 1943 Details: 176th Award.         WEHRMACHTBERICHT Awarded on: December 24th, 1943         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB UND SCHWERTERN Rank: Generalmajor (Brigadier) Unit: Kommandeur 11.Panzer-Division Awarded on: March 26th, 1944 Details: 58th Award.         WEHRMACHTBERICHT Awarded on: September 4th, 1944         WEHRMACHTBERICHT Awarded on: December 24th, 1944         Provide alterations or additional information Picture source:   - Willi Schumacher Collection 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 - Ritterkreuztraeger-1939-45.de - lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de - das-ritterkreuz.de