HEILMANN, Ludwig  
 
PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Heilmann, Ludwig
Date of birth: August 9th, 1903 (Würzburg/Bayern, Germany)
Date of death:  October 26th, 1959 (Kempten/Bayern, Germany)
Nationality:  German
     
DIENSTAUSZEICHNUNG DER WEHRMACHT 3.KLASSE, 12 JAHRE
Awarded on: October 2nd, 1936
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Rank: Hauptmann (Kapitein)
Unit: Stab II. / Infanterie-Regiment 91
Awarded on: October 2nd, 1939
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Rank: Major (Majoor)
Unit: Kommandeur III. / Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 3
Awarded on: June 14th, 1941
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Major
Unit: Kommandeur III. / Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 3
Awarded on: June 14th, 1941
 
     
KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD
Rank: Major
Unit: Kommandeur III. / Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 3
Awarded on: February 26th, 1942
 
     
ÄRMELBAND KRETA
Awarded on: May 20th, 1943
 
     
RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB
Rank: Oberst (Colonel)
Unit: Kommandeur Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 3
Awarded on: March 2nd, 1944
Details: 412th Award.
 
     
RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB UND SCHWERTERN
Rank: Oberst (Colonel)
Unit: Kommandeur Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 3
Awarded on: May 15th, 1944
Details: 67th Award.
 
     
VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN SCHWARZ
 
     
FALLSCHIRMSCHÜTZENABZEICHEN DER LUFTWAFFE
 
     
ERDKAMPFABZEICHEN DER LUFTWAFFE
 
 
 
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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
- Kurowski, F., Knight's Cross Holders of the Fallschirmjäger, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., U.S.A., 1995
- Island Farm Special Camp: XI
- Ritterkreuztraeger-1939-45.de
   
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