DIEST-KÖRBER, von, Ernst-Nordewin
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Diest-Körber, von, Ernst-Nordewin Date of birth:  Unknown Nationality:  German       EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant) Unit: 3. / Panzer-Abteilung 508 Awarded on: February 17th, 1944         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: Hauptmann (Captain) Unit: Kommandeur Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503 "Feldherrenhalle" Awarded on: May 1st, 1945 Details: Nordewin von Diest-Körber was awarded the Knight’s Cross on the authority of the Oberbefehlshaber der 8.Panzer-Armee on 1st May 1945 for actions near Budapest; however, in 1991 the Ordens-Prüfungskommission (Award Verification Commission) determined that the 8.Panzer-Armee was not officially given the authority to award the Knight’s Cross until 4 May, THREE DAYS after awarding the Knight’s Cross to von Diest-Körber. Therefore, the Commission rescinded his Knight’s Cross award and he no longer appears in the lists of Knights Cross winners.         VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN GOLD         Provide alterations or additional information Picture source:   - Willi Schumacher collection Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002 - Kurowski F., Feldwebel Kurt Knispel, Der erfolgreichste Panzerschütze und Panzerkommandant des 2. Weltkrieges, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg, 2007 - Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001 - Letter from Dr. Nordewin von Diest-Körber on the awarding of the Kights Cross