PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Decker, Karl
Date of birth: November 30th, 1897 (Boratin/Pommerania, Germany)
Date of death:  April 21st, 1945 (Groß-Brunsrode/Lower Saxony, Germany)
Nationality:  German
BIOGRAPHY: 
In service from August 3rd 1914. Committed suicide.
     
1939 SPANGE ZUM EISERNEN KREUZES 2ER KLASSE 1914
Awarded on: September 27th, 1939
Details: Had already received the Iron Cross 2nd Class on June 22nd 1915.
 
     
1939 SPANGE ZUM EISERNEN KREUZES 1ER KLASSE 1914
Awarded on: November 20th, 1939
Details: Had already received the Iron Cross 1st Class on November 1st 1916.
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Oberstleutnant
Unit: Kommandeur I. / Panzer-Regiment 3 / 2.Panzer-Division / XVIII.Armee-Korps / 12.Armee
Awarded on: June 13th, 1941
Details: 306th Award.
Submitted on June 3rd 1941.
Preliminary document and decoration on June 17th 1941 to stellv. VII. AK.
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Oberst
Unit: Panzer-Regiment 3
Awarded on: August 1st, 1942
Details: Award 154/1
 
     
WEHRMACHTBERICHT
Awarded on: December 11th, 1943
 
     
WEHRMACHTBERICHT
Awarded on: March 2nd, 1944
 
     
RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB
Rank: Generalmajor
Unit: Kommandeur 5.Panzer-Division / LVI.Panzer-Korps / 2.Armee / Heeresgruppe Mitte
Awarded on: May 4th, 1944
Details: 466th Award.
Submitted on April 24th 1944.
 
     
WEHRMACHTBERICHT
Awarded on: August 5th, 1944
 
     
WEHRMACHTBERICHT
Awarded on: October 12th, 1944
 
     
RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB UND SCHWERTERN
Rank: General der Panzertruppe
Unit: Kommandierender General XXXIX.Panzer-Korps
Awarded on: April 26th, 1945
Details: 149th Award.
Numbering was made in relation to the presumed awarding date. No evidence available in the Bundesarchiv.
 
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Picture source:   - Wilco Vermeer collection, the Netherlands
Information source(s):   - FEDERL, CH., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Panzerdivisionen 1939-1945, VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, 2000.
- PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
- 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
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