WALTHER, Erich
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Walther, Erich Date of birth:  August 5th, 1903 (Gorden-Liebenwerda/Saxony, Germany) Date of death:  December 26th, 1948 (Lager Weimar-Buchenwald/Thuringia, Germany) Nationality:  German BIOGRAPHY:  Died on 26th December 1948 in Soviet imprisonment in POW camp Weimar near Buchenwald.       EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE Awarded on: April 18th, 1940         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Awarded on: April 26th, 1940         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: Major Unit: Kommandeur I. / Fallschirm-Jäger-Regiment 1 / Flieger-Division 7 Awarded on: May 24th, 1940 Details: 39th Award.         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: Major Unit: I. / Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 1 Awarded on: March 31st, 1942 Details: Award 2/32.         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB Rank: Oberst Unit: Kommandeur Fallschirm-Jäger-Regiment 4 / 1.Fallschirm-Jäger-Division / XIV.Armee-Korps / 10.Armee / Heeresgruppe C Awarded on: March 2nd, 1944 Details: 411th Award.         RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB UND SCHWERTERN Rank: Oberst Unit: Führer Fallschirm Panzer-Grandier-Division 2 "Hermann Göring" / Fallschirm-Panzer-Korps „Hermann Göring“ /4.Armee / Heeresgruppe Mitte Awarded on: February 1st, 1945 Details: 131st 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 - 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