FORTUN, Horst
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Fortun, Horst Date of birth:  March 4th, 1917 (Neustadt/Pomerania, Germany) Date of death:  July 6th, 1943 (south of Belgorod/Belgorod Oblast, Soviet Union) Nationality:  German       EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE Awarded on: October 6th, 1939         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Awarded on: July 29th, 1940         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: Oberleutnant (Lieutenant) Unit: 3. / Panzer-Regiment 25 / 7.Panzer-Division Awarded on: April 2nd, 1942         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: Hauptmann (Captain) Unit: Kommandeur I./Panzer-Regiment 25 / 7.Panzer-Division / 1.Panzerarmee / Heeresgruppe Süd Awarded on: August 7th, 1943 Details: Submitted on August 4th 1943. Preliminary document and decoration on August 8th 1943 to stellv.Gen.Kdo. IX. AK.         Provide alterations or additional information Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002 - Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer, Elite of the Third Reich - The Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-45: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, England, 2003 - Federl, C., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Panzerdivisionen 1939-1945, VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, Germany, 2000 - Manteuffel, von H., Die 7. Panzer-Division – Bewaffnung, Einsätze, Männer, Nebel Verlag GmbH, Eggolsheim, Deutschland, 2001 - Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001 - Lodieu, D., III. Pz. Korps at Kursk, Histoire & Collections, Paris, France, 2007 - Axis History