FISCHER, Gerhard (WH-Panzer)
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Fischer, Gerhard (WH-Panzer) Date of birth:  1915 Nationality:  German       EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE Awarded on: October 23rd, 1939         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE Awarded on: June 23rd, 1940         KRIEGSORDEN DES DEUTSCHEN KREUZES IN GOLD Rank: Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant) Unit: II. / Panzer-Regiment 201 Awarded on: November 28th, 1942         PANZERKAMPFABZEICHEN II STUFE Rank: Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant) Unit: 8. / Panzer-Regiment 23 Awarded on: December 12th, 1943         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant) Unit: Chef 8. / Panzer-Regiment 23 / 23.Panzer-Division / 1.Panzerarmee / Heeresgruppe Süd Awarded on: December 28th, 1943 Details: Submitted on December 19th 1943. Preliminary document and decoration on December 31st 1943 to Pz.AOK 1.         PANZERKAMPFABZEICHEN III STUFE Rank: Hauptmann (Captain) Unit: 8. / Panzer-Regiment 23 Awarded on: May 26th, 1944         PANZERKAMPFABZEICHEN IV STUFE ("75") Rank: Hauptmann (Captain) Unit: 8. / Panzer-Regiment 23 Awarded on: September 1st, 1944         PANZERKAMPFABZEICHEN IV STUFE ("100") Rank: Major Unit: Panzer-Regiment 23 Awarded on: December 1st, 1944         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 - Axis History Biographical Research via Axis History Forum - Onderzoek via Panzer-Archiv Forum