BAYER, Franz
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Bayer, Franz Date of birth:  Unknown Nationality:  German       EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE Unit: Zugführer 6. / Panzer-Regiment 39 Awarded on: October 1st, 1941         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Unit: Zugführer 6. / Panzer-Regiment 39 Awarded on: October 20th, 1941         VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN SCHWARZ Awarded on: January 10th, 1942         PANZERVERNICHTUNGSABZEICHEN IN SILBER Awarded on: August 18th, 1942         DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD Rank: Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant) Unit: Zugführer 6. / Panzer-Regiment 39 Awarded on: October 7th, 1942         PANZERKAMPFABZEICHEN III STUFE Rank: Hauptmann (Captain) Unit: III. / Panzer-Regiment "Großdeutschland" Awarded on: April 27th, 1944         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: Hauptmann (Captain) Unit: III. / Panzer-Regiment "Großdeutschland" Awarded on: May 9th, 1945 Details: According to research by Veit Scherzer, published in 2005 in his book “Die Ritterkreuzträger – Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 – 1945“, the awarding of the RK to Franz Bayer is questionable and not prooved by primary sources.         Provide alterations or additional information Picture source:   - Willi Schumacher Collection Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002 - Federl, C., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Panzerdivisionen 1939-1945, VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, Germany, 2000 - 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 - Scherzer V., Die Ritterkreuzträger – Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 – 1945, 2005 - Ritterkreuztraeger 1939 - 1945 - Onderzoek via Panzer-Archiv Forum